About : Professional Development Training

The Marketing Company

We saw a gap in the market in New Zealand for a company to assist other companies with their sales and marketing.

We passionately believe that most companies in New Zealand are expert "technicians" but not always the best sellers or marketers. In 2004 we started the company, Clarity NZ Ltd, to fill this gap. In 2006 we decided to re-brand and re-name our company The Marketing Company Ltd. We feel that our new name better represents our full range of services.

We already helped companies with the branding and re-branding process. Now we’re even more experienced in re-branding! Having fully re-branded, from the initial decision to roll-out in under six weeks, we can help our clients re-brand even better and faster than before, through personal experience!

Presenter: Ambrose Blowfield

Qualified with a B.Sc. Joint Honours degree in International Business with French from Aston University, England, and a Business Administration Certificate from Grenoble Graduate Business School, France. (At the time, Aston University’s International Business with French was ranked joint first nationally as a Business with a Modern Language course in the U.K.)

Ambrose joined Proctor & Gamble U.K., manufacturers of Pantene, Pringles, Oil of Ulay. (At the time, Proctor & Gamble were ranked first worldwide for the “Recruitment, Training & Retention of the best staff” in the FMCG (Fast Moving Consumer Goods) industry by Fortune 500 Magazine). P&G U.K. recruit around fifteen new staff members from over three thousand graduate applicants per year in the U.K. Ambrose's first role was to autonomously manage over GB₤2 million of business, which lead to a dramatic learning curve. He also achieved seven times the national average growth rates in his time as territory manager.

He joined Alectus Personnel (a division of Morgan & Banks, Australasia’s leading recruitment company) as recruitment and business development consultant in Sydney, Australia, helping to establish a new company office in South Sydney. He joined Robert Half International (the world’s leading financial and accounting recruitment company) as recruitment and business development consultant in Sydney, Australia.

When in Singapore on holiday, Ambrose was head-hunted to assist with the launch of a new internet payment card out of Geneva, Switzerland. He moved to New Zealand with his then-pregnant wife, Jo, shortly afterwards and became Business Development Manager for Engineering Taranaki Consortium (New Zealand’s leading engineering consortium) and CApENZ (Centre of Applied Engineering NZ) in New Plymouth NZ. Here, he developed business opportunities for Taranaki’s engineering sector overseas and within New Zealand.

He is a Director of The Marketing Company Ltd., Taranaki’s leading marketing consulting and sales training company, and a Director of High Tech Health Ltd., one of Australasia’s leading manufacturers of health and wellness equipment. He is also a Business Mentors New Zealand mentor and the preferred marketing and business planning expert in the Taranaki region for the Regional Economic Development Agency (similar to a chamber of commerce overseas).