Disaster plan brings New Zealand business together

Beca, BNZ, IAG, New Zealand Red Cross and Vodafone have formed 'Resilient New Zealand', a group which aims to identify and advocate ways to make New Zealand more resilient to disasters, reports The New Zealand Herald.

"The better that we can minimise the impact [natural disasters] have, the faster we can recover from them and that is good all round. It is going to have benefits from an economic point of view and it is going to have benefits from a social point of view", said Bryce Davies of IAG corporate affairs.

"Communities need to be linked together from large businesses to the corner store and local sports club, with families, neighbours and colleagues all prepared to help out during a natural disaster" said Tony Paine from New Zealand Red Cross.