M2 Top 10
How To Pick A Haircut That’s Both Suave And Low Maintenance
For the upcoming issue of M2, we took a couple of our guys to BarberShopCo. to see what they could do. All our people came out looking top notch and even better than they started, which is always what you want happening after a visit to the barber. We quizzed the team at BarberShop Co. …[Read More]
A Natural Pairing
Simon and Garfunkel; Cheech and Chong; Donald Trump and falsehoods; some things just seem to go together naturally. The same is definitely true for port and cheese. Oh man, what a perfect ending to a meal – especially around Christmas – to bust out a cheeseboard together with a sly bottle of Taylor’s Vintage Port. …[Read More]
Taron Egerton – What Moves You, Makes You
Talk to most actors off stage or screen and they are usually consumed with self-doubt, worrying about whether they did a good job of playing this role or that part. You can spot them easily as they are always anxious for positive reinforcement from anyone within earshot, whether they be a critic or just a …[Read More]
M2 – Latest Issue
Dune & All The Movies You Need To Catch To End 2020
Dune, perhaps the most highly anticipated sci-fi of 2020 is finally here (covid willing). The Legendary Frank Herbert Novel has had a checkered history with cinema, with the only good adaption to date being a documentary about a failed attempt at making a Dune film. That doesn’t bode well, but if anyone can do this…...
Conor Maguire Conquers This 60 Foot Wall Of Death
While Ireland may not be first on the list when we think of surfing destinations, surfer Conor Maguire showed us otherwise when he jumped at the chance to ride these epic waves at Mullaghmore, County Sligo in his home country. Taking advantage of the perfect conditions caused by tropical Hurricane Epsilon in October, Maguire was…...
Brook Macdonald: Paralyzed To Racing Again In A Year
A little over a year ago, champion New Zealand downhill mountain biker and Adashiko ambassador, Brook MacDonald lay in agony, semi-paralysed and unable to feel his legs on a Quebec mountain for five hours waiting for a helicopter to arrive. Brook had sustained a serious spinal injury when he crashed during his first practice run…...
M2 Christmas Gift Guide
M2’s Summer Shoe Of Choice To Send Off 2020
Boat shoes, a summer favourite with a timeless look. Whether relaxing on the deck or going to eat by the waterfront this summer, these comfortable classics have become, and will always remain, the essential summer shoe. Find boat shoes this season at Merchant 1948, a brand thrived for three generations. Handcrafted in Portugal, Merchant 1948 …[Read More]
The Mirrorless Camera Every Photographer Wants
The best camera is the one you have on you and the Nikon Z 6II is a hybrid mirrorless camera that any photography-lover will definitely want on them. As part of Nikon’s second generation of full-frame mirrorless cameras, the Z 6II is capable of capturing phenomenal images in low-light scenarios and holds the power of …[Read More]
The Leather Shoe To Dress Up Or Dress Down With
Wolverine is known for combining the best materials with an attention to detail and the finest craftsmanship. Their leather shoe, the Harwell Chukka is no exception with a rich full grain leather upper, leather lined interior, Goodyear™ Wel construction with rubber midsole and heel. The modern twist on a boot is handcrafted in Leon, Mexico …[Read More]
M2 Investment Specialists
The Value of Relationships: Investing With PMG
PMG might be one of New Zealand’s largest and most established property fund managers, with over half a billion dollars’ worth of property and funds under management on behalf of thousands of investors, but each of these investors have very individual goals and situations, from a seed for intergenerational wealth to larger portfolio diversification. The …[Read More]
Snowball Momentum: Building Business Startups
New Zealand Business has been great at creating the Bach, the Boat, the Beemer lifestyles so far in general. But as the likes of Xero and Rocket Lab have shown us, there is the potential for a whole lot more. Simeon Burnett, the co-founder of Snowball Effect, talks to us about raising capital for business …[Read More]
Leading Innovation In Commercial Property
While PMG is based on a solid asset class of commercial property, this has not stopped a focus on innovation, revenue streams and different ways of engaging with investors. Under the leadership of CEO Scott McKenzie, PMG has seen 40% year on year growth in funds under management since 2012. We talk to Scott about …[Read More]
M2 Great Escape
Mike Horn Is An Unstoppable Force
Mike Horn has circumnavigated the globe more times than a NASA satellite. He’s climbed to the top of numerous 8000+ metre peaks (without oxygen), walked unassisted to both Poles and all the way around the North one, swam the Amazon, played with sharks and piranhas and even had a lap dance from a polar bear. With …[Read More]
Russell Ord: One Shot At The Perfect Image
Former rugby league player and award-winning photographer, the photo techniques Russell Ord uses is quite unorthodox, to say the least. He really lives on the edge with his art, and goes to any length to capture the heart of the environment he thrives in. He gets up, close and personal with his subjects, even if …[Read More]
Mountain Biking In NZ’s GOLD Level Destination
There are only two globally recognised Gold level mountain biking centres in New Zealand, the other five are all in North America. The International Mountain Biking Association looks long and hard at a venue before awarding the Gold status, and Rotorua ticks all the boxes. Whakarewarewa Forest is right next to town – you can …[Read More]
M2 Game Changers
The Sun Visor of the 21st Century + All The Tech You Need
It’s high time we stopped relying on a flipdown board to keep the sun out of our eyes and apply a little technology to the situation. Bosch is on the case with a simple solution which stays out of our way with a surprisingly lightweight solution. Currently in the concept phase at the moment, a …[Read More]
Contactless Technology – Where The Future Is Going
These last couple months have made us more conscious than ever about the things we touch. Everything from a handshake before a meeting to the buttons at an ATM. It seems the very wheels of commerce require a human touch. Closing deals is harder when you’re doing it over the phone. Money is more difficult …[Read More]
Hands On With The New Huawei FreeBuds. Spoiler Alert: They’re Awesome
Huawei recently gave me the opportunity to play with their New FreeBuds Studio, which is their very first over-ear wireless headphones, as well as their smaller, streetsmart FreeBuds Pro wireless earbuds. I’m going to go ahead and share my thoughts on the Huawei FreeBuds Pro, before moving onto the stately FreeBuds Studio set. Let’s start …[Read More]
M2 Nature of Time
60 Years Of Grand Seiko – Celebrating A Revolution
The number ‘60’ is an important one within the world of horology as it signifies the completion of a revolution of course. In Japan, it also has wider cultural significance. When someone turns 60, they have gone full circle through the traditional zodiac calendar cycle and has arrived back at the beginning. It is considered …[Read More]
Grand Seiko – Human Hands
In an age of automated production, there is something special and timeless about hand crafted processes, craftsmanship and techniques that have been passed down from generation to generation. These skills are painstaking, time intensive and harder to achieve at scale compared to machine-based processes, but there is a human touch and a connection to a …[Read More]
Grand Seiko Commemorative Watches – The Cycle Of Life
The number sixty is one of the most important numbers in the world of horology and watchmaking, but, in Japan, it has an additional significance as a moment of new energy and re-birth. Sixtieth birthdays or Kanreki, which literally means “return” and “calendar” and signifies that the 60th year of a person marks the end …[Read More]
M2 Taylor Made
A Natural Pairing
Simon and Garfunkel; Cheech and Chong; Donald Trump and falsehoods; some things just seem to go together naturally. The same is definitely true for port and cheese. Oh man, what a perfect ending to a meal – especially around Christmas – to bust out a cheeseboard together with a sly bottle of Taylor’s Vintage Port. …[Read More]
A Port In the Storms Of Time
Only the very best can stand the test of time, and if over 328 years of being a family run business isn’t enough for you, then I don’t know what will convince you. Perhaps Taylor’s 2017 Classic Vintage Port may make a good argument. It’s uncompromisingly Taylor’s in style, elegant and precise. The growing year …[Read More]
Top 3 Sophisticated Gifts For Christmas
Christmas is of course a time for celebration, gifts, moments with family and some good drink and food. It is even better to have all these things bundled together and it is even betterer (technically speaking) when these things all involve Taylor’s Port. For a start, Taylor’s Port have been going since 1692 which not …[Read More]
M2 What Moves You
The Hero’s Journey of Chen Kun
You would think Chen Kun could relax now. With a string of incredibly successful movies under his belt including The National Anthem, The Knot, Chongqing Hot Pot and Painted Skin and a virtual permanent residency within the Forbes China Celebrity 100, Chen is a household name in his home country. Yet taking it easy isn’t …[Read More]
Montblanc Christmas Gifts With A Message
For some, Christmas is a difficult time as they never know what to get as gifts for the people they know and/or like. You’ve heard the laments; ‘Oh, what do you get someone who’s got everything?!’ or ‘Jeez, I don’t know what such-and-such is into!’ Of course, one solution is to just hammer the monetary …[Read More]
Spike Lee – What The World Needs More Of
Whether you’re in a bar or in a tent in the bush or in a meeting room listening to a presentation, the best storytellers have us in raptures. Their tales aren’t just lists of facts like you’d hear from a police representative in a courtroom, these magicians personalize every human emotion, populate their yarns with …[Read More]
M2 Better Lifestyle
Aston Martin Valkyrie – The World’s Fastest Street Car?
Aston Martin’s ‘dynamic public appearance’ at the 2019 British Grand Prix made us evermore impressed by what the brand is putting into the automobile market these days. The driver, Chris Goodwin, took Aston Martin’s new 1,160 brake horse power hypercar, Valkyrie, for a spin last year. A collaboration of the marquee car name, Red Bull …[Read More]
This Theme Park Of The Future Is Next Level
Recently, Qiddiya Investment Company announced their plans for the next big thing to come out of Saudi Arabia. A new theme park, called Six Flags Qiddya, is to be the epicentre of entertainment for a new city that is being built outside of the main financial hub of SA. It’s set to contain all the …[Read More]
Property Management Of The Future
Aside from the changes to the property market forced by a global pandemic, New Zealand renters and landlords are already part way through a shift in the quality of rental properties thanks in part to regulations like the Healthy Homes standards, but also to a growing awareness of the long term impacts of living in …[Read More]
M2 Whisky Channel
Getting Off Scotch Free
It seems wrong to trifle with the flavour profile of a good single malt whisky, but it can make the perfect base for a classic drink. Two cocktails we can recommend making with the Single Malt 12 Year Glenfiddich is the Spicy Rob Roy or the Classic Whisky Sour. You can find the recipes on …[Read More]
Valley Of The Deer
They say don’t judge a whisky by its bottle, but in the case of Glenfiddich you can go right ahead, as their new redesigned packaging of the signature 12 and 15 Year expressions look as good as its contents taste. Way back in 1887, William Grant settled down in Speyside, Scotland in a little place …[Read More]
Whisky On The Lochs
Scotch, that nectar of goodness, has been an iconic flagstaff for the Scottish for centuries. Being either single malt or blended form, there’s a whole wealth of things to know about each. In Scotland, there are several well-known regions for whisky makers. One in particular is Speyside in the northeast of Scotland. This region is …[Read More]
M2 Cellar Channel
The Pinnacle Of Craft
The best in New Zealand; now that’s a lofty height. It’s a special zone with rarified air that only people like Sir Patrick Hogan, Lisa Carrington, Peter Beck, Zoi Sadowski-Synnott, Peter Jackson and Lydia Ko get to breathe. It’s also an amazing place where the All Blacks, Crusaders and Scott Robertson (and maybe Ian Foster …[Read More]
The Class Of Te Mata Estate Alma ’19
Pinot Noir is considered by many to be the most legendary of red grapes. It is the holy grail of winemaking, the thin-skinned grape notoriously sensitive, fragile and fickle to grow and equally difficult to fashion into a truly great wine. But combine equal measures of passion, patience, perseverance and most likely anguish, heartbreak and …[Read More]
Te Mata – A National Treasure
National Treasures come in all shapes and sizes and in this case, flavours from the the oldest wine property in the country. Established in 1896, Te Mata is New Zealand’s original fine wine estate. Recently described by jancisrobinson.com as ‘A national treasure’, Te Mata Estate produces wines grown, hand-harvested, fermented, and bottled entirely on their …[Read More]
M2 Adventure Channel
The Call Of Pripyat
With shows like HBO’s Chernobyl miniseries stoking the popular imagination, our collective fascination with the 1986 nuclear disaster continues unabated. For many, it’s a distant but horrifying piece of history. For others, it’s a very real place that is very much alive and thriving, although not with the lives of the 135,000 people evacuated from …[Read More]
Surgeons of the Sea
Free Willy vs Jaws… who wins? Hollywood has altered our expectations about how this sort of apex predator duel would go down. Unless you spend more time watching documentaries than old movies on VHS, then the answer isn’t so clear. The biggest great white sharks can measure six metres long, weigh more than 2200 kilograms …[Read More]
Clive Cussler – The Underwater Adventurer
Best-selling author of up to 70 books (and counting), Clive Cussler is a writer with an insanely vivid imagination. Swashbuckling adventures, megalomaniac villains, the electricity of espionage, the excitement of discovering sunken ships…intrigue, action, a snippet of humour – there’s something for every reader in Cussler’s writing. The author of The Mediterranean Caper (1973), Sahara …[Read More]
M2 Barber Styles
The French Crop Fade Styling Guide You Need Right Now
M2 recently took its shaggiest guys for a spruce up at BarberShopCo. The end results were sharp and on point. So we quizzed the barbers behind the looks to get the inside line on how to pick a good look, and the products we need to maintain them. This look was provided to us by …[Read More]
How to Manage and Style Curly Hair
Last week M2 took the lads down to BarberShopCo. for a sheering. A month of lockdown without seeing anyone had left everyone in dire need of some grooming. Fortunately we were in capable hands and the results really do speak for themselves. We caught a moment with our barbers to get the inside scoop on …[Read More]
How To Pick A Haircut That’s Both Suave And Low Maintenance
For the upcoming issue of M2, we took a couple of our guys to BarberShopCo. to see what they could do. All our people came out looking top notch and even better than they started, which is always what you want happening after a visit to the barber. We quizzed the team at BarberShop Co. …[Read More]
M2 Fitness Performance Channel
Fitness In The Workplace
Office-bound men, sitting stagnant at their desks, may often feel like their physical well-being is declining somewhat. I know I feel it from time-to-time – the nine-to-five droll, staring at a flickering screen all day, no motivation to hit the gym or achieve any fitness goals. Workplace fitness sounds like a silly sort of concept, …[Read More]
Top 5 New Zealand Activities for Healthy Living
To the outside world, New Zealand carries a reputation for healthy living owing much to the great outdoors lifestyle and engagement with sports and leisure pastimes, such as rugby, skiing and water activities. A 2015 study of 20 nations ranked New Zealand second in its life span category; and only last November, NZ topped the …[Read More]
Extreme Cliff Diving
Photos by Dean Treml/Red Bull Content Pool Taking diving to the extreme is Colombian professional cliff diver, Orlando Duque. Duque took a dip at the historic Toorji Step Well in Jodhpur, India following the recent Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series. Built in the 1740s, the well was orginally built as a water source and …[Read More]
M2 High Performance Channel
Welcome To The All-New Yamaha 2021 Waverunner Lineup
You can never have too much of a good thing! This is great news as Yamaha have released their 2021 WaveRunner range and it’s available NOW in NZ. What’s more, most of the range is all-new with the GP Series race-inspired models and VX Series recreation models having had major feature and design upgrades. Plus, …[Read More]
The 80 Metre Long Superyacht Missing From Your Life
Termed by the Ancient Greeks to being a state where all judgements are suspended to guarantee feelings of worry and anxiety, an epoche is the feeling any male should strive for. To just not worry and to relax, put your feet up and lavish in luxury. That’s what’s been promised by naval architecture giants, Dr …[Read More]
The Secret To Winning World Championships?
Yamaha’s WaveRunner engineers have been busy, constantly improving what is already a world-renowned championship winning platform. With the GP1800R racecraft, they’re striving for ever greater speed, performance and mobility. The all-new race-ready supercharged 2021 GP1800R SVHO and normally-aspirated GP1800R HO are the results of their endeavours and, after Yamaha’s recent race domination, it’s little wonder …[Read More]
M2 Video & Podcasts
Ep.21 – How The Hell Do You Market Now?
Jemma is the Marketing and Digital Director and driver of sustainability projects at ecostore, the leading environmental and sustainable brand in New Zealand. Jemma is passionate about driving business and brands as a force for good and is using her 19 years of experience working across the globe to help ecostore to do just that. …[Read More]
Ep.31 – How To Run A Company That Lasts Generations
Auckland City Motors Managing Director, Ian Gibson, has defined his life and career around a love of cars. It’s also been a career that has seen him go from a very modest and frugal upbringing to becoming a co-owner of one of New Zealand’s most iconic car dealerships, Auckland City BMW, and its associated operations …[Read More]
Ep.38 – How Do We Get More Business?
As a nation, we are renowned globally for innovation but equally renowned for lacking in sales fundamentals and operational rigor. This leads to companies either failing early or never reaching their true potential. This has led to Alex McNaughten’s mission to address the Sales Capability Gap in New Zealand. His company, Sales Leaders, works with …[Read More]
M2 Summit
Ep.88 – From Street To Sir – Sir Ray Avery
A former street kid, Sir Ray Avery went on to become an internationally recognised scientist and entrepreneur and Knight of the Realm. He’s founding member of the Auckland University School of Medicine, Department of Clinical Pharmacology and former Technical Director of Douglas Pharmaceuticals who, over the past thirty years, has made a major contribution in …[Read More]
Ep.93 – Collaboration, Not Just A Buzzword – Nesian Network
The Nesian Network is where Māori and Pasifika business professionals connect. They believe in thriving individuals, businesses, & leadership in order to uplift whānau, fānau and communities, as well as the next generation. Created by Māori & Pasifika for Māori & Pasifika to encourage collaboration, create new business opportunities and celebrate success. Indiyah Beckmannflay, Kristin …[Read More]
Ep.87 – How Long Can Your Business Keep Doing What It’s Doing – Dr. Mark Eltom
Working with the likes of Callaghan Innovation, MBIE and Auckland University, Mark Eltom has helped hundreds of startups and established businesses grow through guidance and insights into R&D strategy and access to funding. Mark’s background across industry, academia and government gives a unique insight into new problems. He is now the CEO of Wine Grenade, …[Read More]
M2 Tech
Wall Chargers Have Never Been Smaller Or Quicker
Belkin’s BOOST↑CHARGE™ Dual USB-C PD GaN Wall Chargers 68W gives a damn fast charge, sending a MacBook Pro 15” from no battery at all to 50% in just an hour. Or for an iPhone 8 or later, it goes from nothing to 50% in about 30 minutes. To really appreciate it though, allow me to …[Read More]
5 Pieces Of Essential Tech You Need
As we all headed into lockdown earlier in the year, I’m sure a lot of us were kicking ourselves for not getting the tech stuff we needed to really get through the ordeal in style. Personally, I wish I hadn’t dilly dallied on getting the power supply for this new monitor that just gathered dust. …[Read More]
Digital Success: Setting Yourself Up For The Future
The digital age is truly amazing. Never before have we been able to do so much from a business point of view. And, in our, unbiased opinion, it’s never been better. In saying that, tapping into the power of digital is not always a simple process. Digital transformation comes in all different shapes and sizes. …[Read More]
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