Australian chocolatier Dean Morgan of Zokoko is one of an increasing number of gourmet chocolate makers discovering that the fine cocoa flavour of Papua New Guinean cocoa makes excellent gourmet chocolate.
Company profiles
Paradise Foods Limited is Papua New Guinea’s oldest established food manufacturer, with operations dating back to the early 1930s.
Robert Hamilton-Jones talks to one of the founders of Jasper Coffee, which roasts and packages gourmet Papua New Guinean coffee.
With mobile phone use now widespread in PNG, the country’s largest bank is aiming to bring financial services to the ‘unbanked’ in PNG’s rural areas for the first time—an initiative that is expected to drive small business development.
Two organisations worth knowing about if you’re looking to invest in Papua New Guinea.
Papua New Guinea’s largest steel fabricator, Hornibrook NGI, provides of a wide range of products and services to the country’s mining and petroleum industry.
Toyota Tsusho subsidiary Ela Motors has a long and distinguished history in PNG. Its current programme of new investment illustrates how standards are rising fast in PNG’s services sector.
When production at the massive Frieda River copper-gold mine begins in 2016, it will launch a projected 30-year-plus phase of potential major returns for Papua New Guinea and for investors.
On May 10, 1910 two young men established PNG’s first commercial bank. Burns Philp had been reluctantly providing banking services before Messers Pickering and Sefton arrived at Port Moresby harbour, and set up shop as the Bank of New South Wales in Douglas Street.
OilSearch Limited is PNG’s longest-established resources company, with an 80-year history of operations in the country. It currently operates all of PNG’s producing oil and gas fields and also has operations in Australia, Yemen and the United Arab Emirates.