Posts tagged Kagi
Go Better Approach Wins Kagi A Place In Deloitte Top 50
Dec 13th
Kat Gee from Kagi with the Deliotte Top 50 Award
Kagi jewellery designer and founder, Kat Gee has proved that although her business may appear to be all sparkles and pearls, behind all the glitz and glamour lies a very successful company.
The company is now celebrating being ranked at 40th place in the Deloitte’s Fast 50, the only fashion based business in the list. Kagi was the only company in this year’s awards to gain Highly Commended for Australasia.
This comes on top of being awarded an Icehouse scholarship in September and Highly Commended in the international Pearl Design Awards earlier this month.
The Deloitte’s Fast 50 operates in 32 countries/regions worldwide, celebrating the fastest growing companies and has become a barometer of successful, innovative businesses.
Kat Talks Entrepreneurship on Stuff
Apr 19th
Kat Gee of Kagi Jewellery
Our fabulous client Kat Gee from Kagi was featured this month on Stuff as part of a series on entrepreneurship.
We learned a lot ourselves about Kat from the article, for instance, she started off making jewellery from Fimo?
Read on:
From Fimo to Fine Art Jewellery
by Rebecca Stevenson
Making Fimo jewellery may not sound like much of a money spinner, but when you’re eight years old, your parents are covering all the costs and your friends are snapping your pieces up, it’s a rewarding little business, Kat Gee says.
“I think I made about $60. That’s a lot of money to spend at the tuck shop,” she laughs.
Fast forward to about five years ago when Ms Gee, now 29, chucked her graphic design career to follow her heart and make jewellery – but not with Fimo this time.
After completing a goldsmithing course Ms Gee bought a jewellery business and rebranded it as Kagi. Kagi jewellery is a Kiwi brand but there’s not a silver fern pendant in sight, as Ms Gee draws on her Dutch roots to give Kagi a “European sensibility” and a modern, clean design…
For the full article, go here.
Showroom Complete! All labels inhouse and ready for dispatch
Feb 1st
The Blomfield Showroom at 105 Nelson Street is in place and ready to serve. We’ve given the showroom a lick of paint, installed the lovely Christina Roys in the reception and hung all the labels in their places.
Our office: The old green building on the corner of Cook and Nelson Sts - parking on the right., Freemans Bay, Auckland
Just to recap, Paul Blomfield PR is now managing a number of the labels of Coco PR – in what we’re calling Blomfield Showroom.
Over the next week, you’ll be seeing updates to our website and information on new labels and opportunities.
If you’re seeking information, images, releases or styling assistance for Loobie’s Story, Julie Eynon, Kagi, Ketz-ke, Mena, Michelle Yvette, Ooby Ryn, Sheryl May, Silverdale Knitwear or Revel, please contact us directly on (09) 377 1747 or email Christina on: showroom@paulblomfield.com.
For Bella Vi Pure Minerals, brady, Caroline Moore, DOOSH, Elusiv, HOTmilk, Rembrandt, Sable&Minx, Sarah Riley, Scala, Wayward Heir, Zeema, please contact Miranda Likeman as usual, on (09) 815 5040, or email: miranda@cocopr.co.nz
Feel free to call in. We’ve got parking at the side of the building (enter off Nelson) and we’re here most hours, most days.
Any questions, please contact Jill: (09) 377 1747 or jill@paulblomfield.com. More >
Merging is the New Black: Two Top Fashion PR Companies Join Forces
Jan 25th
There&s been a silver lining to the perils of success for Auckland based fashion PR agent Miranda Likeman of Coco PR.
Paul Blomfield, Jill Blomfield and Miranda Likeman
As of February 1st a business merger has enabled her to join forces with her former mentors and industry experts Paul and Jill Blomfield as well as accept an in-house position with design house Urban Creative.
Starting on February 1, 2011, the two respected PR agencies created a ‘super agency&, with both offices maintaining separate client lists.  Paul Blomfield PR has taken on many of the Coco clients requiring showroom representation and assistance with exporting, while Likeman, in her showroom at Urban Creative in Morningside, will retain Doosh, Sable & Minx, Brady and Rembrandt, alongside other clients on her books that don&t require showroom space.
Likeman will continue involvement over the strategizing of range releases and various projects for the Blomfield  based clients due to her depth of knowledge of them, but this will slowly become only a part time endeavour for her.
Likeman started Coco PR with her former business partner in January 2007, after years as a magazine editor and fashion journalist. “My business partner and I met while she was the Fashion Editor and I was Deputy Editor of a magazine,†says Likeman. “As editors, we found dealing with many PR companies difficult, time consuming and at times, frustrating. More >
