What’s at stake: As government procurement rules shift focus, ARC’s story shows why Māori SMEs should be central to regional growth plans.
Background: ARC Asbestos Removal & Demolition grew from a bootstrapped start-up to a $6m business by combining commercial grit with a kaupapa of uplift and inclusion.
Main players: Thomas Bishop, Clinton Blackley, and Cuba Te Kanawa-Pakai (ARC); Warner Cowin (Height Project Management); Amotai and Te Puni Kōkiri (support and capability partners).
When Thomas Bishop describes some of the work his company does as "really shit jobs", it’s not meant as a complaint. It’s an insight into a workplace philosophy that says it’s not what you do but who you do it with that matters.
"If you’re doing it with good people, you don’t care," he
What’s at stake: As government procurement rules shift focus, ARC’s story shows why Māori SMEs should be central to regional growth plans.
Background: ARC Asbestos Removal & Demolition grew from a bootstrapped start-up to a $6m business by combining commercial grit with a kaupapa of uplift and inclusion.
Main players: Thomas Bishop, Clinton Blackley, and Cuba Te Kanawa-Pakai (ARC); Warner Cowin (Height Project Management); Amotai and Te Puni Kōkiri (support and capability partners).
