Rimu & Harbour · New Zealand · Launching Summer 2026/27

We're bringing the festival to New Zealand.

Rimu & Harbour is a New Zealand venture building NZ Pie Fest — a national pie-festival platform that turns a city's best bakeries into one unforgettable day. We start in Wellington, then take it nationwide.

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NZ Pie Fest✦ Food Festivals✦ Creator Partnerships✦ Commercial & Sponsorship✦ Wellington First✦ Nationwide Vision✦
01 — Who We Are

A small team
building something
a whole city shows up for.

Rimu & Harbour is the New Zealand venture behind NZ Pie Fest. We take a format that works the world over — the large-format food festival — and build it properly for New Zealand, city by city.

We're not reinventing the wheel. We're adapting a proven category to local culture, local bakeries and local talent — and building the operational, commercial and creator framework that makes it land.

01
Identify
Spot the gap — New Zealand has the food culture and the appetite, but not yet the festival.
02
Build
Create the operational, sponsorship and media framework that turns an idea into a repeatable format.
03
Partner
Bring local bakeries, brands and creators in as partners — the audience is built with them, not at them.
04
Scale
Prove it in Wellington, then take the same format nationwide — region by region, city by city.
02 — Our Flagship

NZ Pie Fest
launches in Wellington.

One day. The city's best bakeries, each bringing one signature pie. Drinks, crowds, and a new favourite around every corner — the kind of summer day a city talks about for weeks.

The hook

Every bakery brings ONE signature pie in a tasting size for $6 — best-pie bragging rights drive participation, and the public gets to try them all.

The day out

A single ticket includes your first drink. An easy yes for a casual summer afternoon — bring friends, eat, vote on your favourite.

The place

Wellington first — a tight, food-loving city with a strong creator culture and real local pride. The perfect place to start something national.

03 — The Model

Capital-light.
Partner-funded. Built to scale.

The festival is funded largely by sponsorship, vendor participation and ticketing — so it stands on its own from the first edition and gets stronger as it grows. These are our launch targets and the vision ahead, not past results.

2026/27
First Edition
Wellington, Summer
30+
Bakeries Targeted
Launch Edition
4,000+
Attendance Target
First Edition
Nationwide
The Five-Year
Vision

Figures are forward-looking targets and projections, shared in detail with partners and investors on request.

04 — What We Build

One venture.
Four moving parts.

01
Food Festivals
The core. Large-format, city-scale food events that activate bakeries, brands and communities — starting with NZ Pie Fest in Wellington.
Flagship: NZ Pie Fest
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02
Creator Partnerships
We build with creators, not around them. Free access, ticket-code revenue share and co-marketing — their audience helps launch the event, and they grow with it.
Founding-creator program
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03
Commercial & Sponsorship
Connecting brands to a real, engaged, in-person audience — main-sponsor and brand-activation partnerships that fund the experience and perform for partners.
Brand partnerships
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04
National Expansion
A proven format, taken city to city. Wellington, then the wider region, then Christchurch, Auckland and beyond — the same playbook, scaled.
Wellington → nationwide
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05 — Backed By

A New Zealand venture
with international backing.

Rimu & Harbour is the New Zealand line of business of Aross Holding, an international group with experience running large-format food festivals and live events.

That means NZ Pie Fest isn't a first-timer's experiment — it's a proven playbook, brought to New Zealand by a team that has done it before, with the commercial backing to build it properly.

Osmel TrujilloGroup CEO
Aross Holding
Daniel Santiago RosasCEO
Rimu & Harbour
Juan David LinaresCFO · Proposed
Rimu & Harbour
06 — Where We Operate

Building in New Zealand.

New Zealand
Rimu & Harbour · NZ Pie Fest
Establishing · Wellington Launch 2026/27
United States
Aross Holding · International Operations
Strategic & Commercial Base

07 — Let's Build It Together

Be part ofthe first one.

Bakeries, brands, creators and partners — we'd love to hear from you.

office@rimuandharbour.com → creators@rimuandharbour.com →