‘Battle-hardened’ Trade Window ready to grow

Trade Window founder CEO AJ Smith and board adviser Tim Groser. (Image: NZME)

Thu, 21 Nov 2024

Customs, freight and shipping software company Trade Window is emerging “battle-hardened” from the loss of a key investor and the post-covid capital drought with a sudden jump in customer numbers.The company added 36 new customers in the first quarter of the 2025 financial year, according to recent NZX filings, compared with a net increase of just one in the whole of the previous financial year.That number is somewhat inflated by the fact 26 of those customers came as part of a transaction the Auckland-based company concluded w...

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