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Exporting over the net.(New Zeland Nature Company online shopping site )(Brief Article)

www.nznature.co.nz is an internet shopping site that sells an eclectic collection of stuff, mostly corralled around the clean-green, uniquely New Zealand, and travellers-needs categories.

Ben Van Dyke and Miranda Wood Van Dyke started New Zealand Nature Company in 1994 as a catalogue company, and introduced a website shop in 1997. Now 55 percent of its business comes in over a continually expanding net presence. It has sites in the US, Australia, the UK, and Europe all priced in local currency.

Exports make up 45 percent of the business with US being a promi

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