Auckland, New Zealand — POP MART, the global culture and entertainment company best known for art toys and collectable toys, has announced the opening of its first New Zealand store in Auckland this April.

Located at Queen Street, the commercial centre of Auckland’s CBD, the two-story site features a range of POP MART toys from their numerous series and of varying rarities.

Justin Moon, VP of POP MART, and president of POP MART International, said, “We are excited to come to New Zealand and open our new store in Auckland, a world-renowned and beautiful city.”

Moon adds, “With our well-designed store, we can connect with local art toy fans and consumers, bringing them a joyful and engaging shopping experience, and sharing the culture of art toys.”

The New Zealand store is the first official POP MART store in Oceania. The company launched two Roboshops, or toy vending machines, and a pop-up store in Australia last year, which proved a hit with local art toy fans. A store also popped up this year in London that marked the brand’s first physical store in Europe. The Beijing-based art toy brand has already expanded into 23 countries and regions across the world.

Auckland, New Zealand – B2B data and marketing solutions Selling Simplified Group (SSG) has announced that it will continue its expansion in the Asia Pacific region with the opening of its Auckland, New Zealand office. The latest office marks the sixth new APAC location for the company in three years.

SSG carries a number of proprietary MarTech solutions such as Visionayr, Demandcentr, and Integrated Programmatic, providing demand generation and data enrichment services.

It has been servicing New Zealand clients since 2017 by way of its Sydney location, and the company said that the expansion to Auckland is in line with its efforts to hyperlocalize services, where a fully local staff has been adopted.

VP of Global Sales Charlie Whife said, “The addition of the New Zealand office really brings our plans full circle for the ANZ market as a whole. New Zealand offers excellent talent as well as local customers with a different perspective and ambitions for us to help them achieve,”

According to a press statement, Whife is set to build a fully operational team in the country, bringing in seasoned sales executives by September 2020, and by early 2021, local creative and operations personnel. 

Before the start of 2021, SSG is said to add two more openings to its roster of APAC locations.