01/10/2025
🥜 Where to next for Pic’s Peanut Butter?
Join us for the 53rd Waikato Management School Case Competition, proudly sponsored by PwC!
📅 Wednesday 8 October
🕠 5:30pm
📍 The Pā, University of Waikato
Top student teams will present bold strategies for the future of Pic’s — In 2007, Pic Picot shook up New Zealand’s peanut butter scene with his natural, no-nonsense spread. By 2025, Pic’s was the market leader, exporting to Australia and China from its cutting-edge Peanut Butter World. With new CEO Aimee McCammon at the helm and a major investment from Australia’s Scalzo Foods, Pic’s is ready for its next big move.
Come along to see innovation in action, support our students, and be part of the buzz! 🥜✨
29/09/2022
50th Waikato Management School Case Competition
We are delighted to invite you to the 50th Waikato Management School Case Competition, being held on Wednesday, 19 October, starting at 5.45pm.
Please join us for this milestone event and watch the four finalist teams of students pitch their business strategies to a panel of expert judges in front of a live audience.
The winning team will be awarded a $2,500 cash prize from PWC, who have generously sponsored the WMS Case Competition for many years.
Venue: The Concert Chamber, Gallagher Academy of Performing Arts, University of Waikato, Hamilton
14/10/2021
Congratulations to Prestige Strategies the winners of the 49th WMS Case Competition.
Charlotte Callaghan
Sarah Gurnsey
Riley Malins
William Parker
13/10/2021
What a great night and congratulations to all contestants.
13/10/2021
Teams for tonight's event:
Upstream Consulting
Julia Corkery
Cara Davies
Ashlee Howlett
Daniel Michael
Dean Prendergast
Cobalt Consulting
Cale Budd
Kate Noble-Orton
Brooke Simpkins
Joseph Wallbank
Dash Consulting
Nathan Carrasco
Teri Dawson
Tessa Ewens
Will Warnock
Prestige Strategies
Charlotte Callaghan
Sarah Gurnsey
Riley Malins
William Parker
MC's are Jasmine Fraser and Ngahuia MacFarlane
Judging panel:
David White - Founder and CEO - Shift72
Mark McCabe - Waikato Managing Partner - PwC New Zealand
Brittany Oliver - Senior Commercial Lead - ZURU Toys
Andrew Johnson - Managing Director - IT Partners
Genevieve Macky - Business Partner - Bank of New Zealand
13/10/2021
The focus of this year's WMS Case Competition is Shift72, a powerhouse Kiwi company based in Hamilton that's now the global market leader in providing a video-on-demand (VOD) streaming platform for some of the world's most prestigious film festivals, such as Cannes and Sundance.
Shift72 Founder and CEO David White says, "We've got the product, we've got the foundations, and now we are really focusing back on innovation ... we just have to make sure we're always evolving."
But the question is, how exactly should they do that?
Our students have been set the challenge of developing a five-year growth strategy for Shift72 that will help them expand into other hybrid events such as music concerts and conferences, and increase their market dominance.
This Wednesday, the four finalist teams will present their strategies to a panel of expert judges, plus everyone watching at home via the livestream on 13 October, starting at 6.30pm..
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The Case
15/10/2020
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