Interview: David Purcell, Ela Motors

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Vehicle sales are an important barometer of economic activity; so what is Papua New Guinea’s largest car dealer reporting?

Perspectives on Papua New Guinea

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Business leaders provide their own take on opportunities in PNG’s economy. Greg Pawson, General Manager Pacific Banking, Westpac ‘Papua New Guinea is a very important market for us. We employ more than 400 staff across our PNG business. We have sixteen branches and we’re expanding, with new business centres in Lae and Port Moresby. We’re about to relocate our main […]

PNG: overcoming the challenges

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As Business Advantage’s PNG 100 CEO Survey reveals, leading companies are performing exceptionally in spite of facing an array of severe impediments. We take a closer look at some of the daily challenges faced by companies doing business in Papua New Guinea and find out how they are overcoming them. At the beginning of 2011, […]

Case Study: Ela Motors, driving Papua New Guinea’s growth

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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. While many automotive businesses around the world suffered during the global downturn, automotive sales and service company Ela Motors grew significantly in PNG and dominated the […]