Nuzilla Info

About Nuzilla

We’re a small (as yet) business designing our own offerings for the gift and home wares market in New Zealand and beyond. It seemed that New Zealanders and NZ-ophiles could do with some thoughtful and playful locally made objects that we’d all be proud to share our homes with. We decided to look at traditional icons and New Zealand’s assorted peculiar flora and fauna, and redesign them. It sounded fun.....

That was then, and this is now... a growing business with many new products in the pipeline and the only difficulty we have is spreading ourselves effectively across all our roles. There are currently two designers, Cris and Christine, and the possibility of more joining us.

Some New Zealand Trivia:

Ninety Mile beach is actually only 55 miles long
New Zealanders recognise a ‘Z’ on a page of text twice as fast as any other nationality
There are more pipe bands in New Zealand than in Scotland
There are more golf courses in New Zealand per head of population than any other country in the world. Golf is the most popular sport in the country, measured by club membership.
NZ does 50% of all world trade in sheep meat
For each person who lives here, New Zealand produces 100 kg of butter and 65 kg of cheese each year
Car ownership rates are one of the highest in the world
More people die in NZ every year playing Lawn Bowls than Scuba Diving.
New Zealand was the first place in the world to allow women to vote.
22% of New Zealanders have seen a kiwi in the wild
In May 1948, Mt Ruapehu and Mt Ngauruhoe erupted simultaneously.
As the Pacific plate moves under its coast, the North Island of New Zealand is getting larger.
The longest word in the world is 'Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu'
and is the name of a hill in New Zealand.
No place in New Zealand is more than 126km from the sea.
The fresh water spring with the greatest volume in the world is in New Zealand near Nelson
Each year some 400 significant earthquakes are recorded in New Zealand
Less than 5% of the population of New Zealand is human - the rest are animals, giving one of the highest ratios of humans to animals in the world.
New Zealand has more bookshops per head of population than any other country
96% of those in jail in NZ are males.
22% of New Zealanders were born overseas
The average New Zealander drinks 30% less alcohol than the average German and 40% less alcohol than the average Irish.
NZ has 2 native terrestrial mammals, and 50 introduced species.