Breath of fresh air   April

What makes us feel alive, refreshed, renewed and inspired this month

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WIN Restoring Night Cream, as seen in Remix Magazine Remix Magazine, New Zealand’s number one style and pop culture bible, featured Obiqo in its latest issue to hit newsstands. Our Restoring Night Cream was the only local entry in an illustrious roll call of top marine beauty products. To celebrate, we’re giving away one 50ml Restoring Night Cream (RRP $65). The prize comes with a beautiful scarf stocked by our retail partners Save the Children. For your chance to win, email your name and address to info@obiqoskincare.com with “Night Cream” in the subject line by 30 April. Congratulations to Anne of Featherston who won the prize draw in our December newsletter.

ALIVE: High seas adventure
Captain Cook stocked up on Madeira wine and salted beef for his ocean-going endeavours, but these days sailors are just as likely to include Obiqo in their boat provisions. We’ve recently joined forces with Auckland-based charter company Decked Out Yachting to supply our products to their customers, which include the international super yacht set and local boaties. We’re excited by our new adventure on the high seas with another like-minded local business. Visit Decked Out Yachting’s website.

REFRESHED: Change the World 9-5
Punch into We Are What We Do;  the website is required reading for all worker bees and desk jockeys. It’s an irreverent and refreshing take on the small things we can all do during the working day to make a difference to our quality and enjoyment of life. Like Action 89: ring the IT desk just to see how they are; or Action 94: make a coffee for someone busier than you. We applaud companies making a special effort to create the best possible work environment for their staff, like ANZ Bank, who invited Obiqo to take part in their wellbeing week, held last month in Wellington.
 
RENEWED: Boxing clever
In our line of business, we naturally place importance on our appearance. But with Obiqo’s packaging, you’ll be pleased to know that beauty is more than skin deep. We worked closely with an award-winning New Zealand printing company to create sustainable packaging that treads lightly on the environment. The recyclable boxes are made from elemental chlorine free board that is certified to come from well managed and legally harvested forests. Waste board produced during the printing process and the aluminum offset printing plates are recycled. The glue we use is water based and non-toxic. Even our metallic ink is sustainably sourced.

INSPIRED: Save the Children’s new concept stores
With the local community at its heart, Save the Children’s new approach to retail is inspired. It has just launched new concept stores in Wellington and Christchurch to help fund its programmes in more than 120 countries. Retail head Mike Kotlyar says, “These new stores have a contemporary and modern feel and a range that mainly focuses on women’s and children’s products, but also offers new gift ideas for everyone. Additionally, we wanted to have shops that supported New Zealand suppliers and manufacturers.  Our big focus was also to ensure all our stocked products are fair trade and, wherever possible, also eco-friendly.  The shop fit outs are also designed to be eco-friendly from paints to fixtures and carpets.”

Look what we’ve got in-store for you: Obiqo is stocked in the new flagship store at 173 Cuba St, Wellington. Each week Obiqo’s  Phillippa Fletcher (pictured), is on hand to answer your skincare SOS. Visit our Facebook page for details. CUSTOMER BUZZ “The night cream is smooth and easy to apply... a great product with visible results and an affordable price,” Natalia from Wellington   “Excellent service... the product is lovely,” Julie from Auckland

 

 

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