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Speaker 1: Seventeen past five on news talks. He'd be so. Chris Bishop,

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Speaker 1: who is the Minister of Sport and Recreation, has today

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Speaker 1: asked Sport New Zealand to review and update its principles

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Speaker 1: for the inclusion of transgender people in community sport. He

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Speaker 1: says that the current guidelines don't reflect expectations that sport

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Speaker 1: be about fairness and safety as well as diversity, inclusion

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Speaker 1: and equity. So he's going to be with us before

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Speaker 1: six o'clock this evening. We can ask him exactly what

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Speaker 1: that means right now though. Eighteen past five and Cinnabon

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Speaker 1: is coming to New Zealand. The popular American bakery will

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Speaker 1: open its first store at Westfield Newmarket next month. It'll

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Speaker 1: start off selling many of its classic cinnamon rolls and

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Speaker 1: blended frozen drinks which come in flavors like mangoes, strawberry,

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Speaker 1: and cookies and cream. Kathan Peric is the director of

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Speaker 1: Sinabon New Zealand. He acquired the franchise rights and is

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Speaker 1: with us now.

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Speaker 2: Hi, Kathan, Hey, thank you, thank you for having me.

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Speaker 1: Why did you want to bring Cinnabon to New Zealand.

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Speaker 2: You know I've looked at the franchise for a while now,

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Speaker 2: had it overseas a couple of times and thought that

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Speaker 2: there's something that needed to come to New Zealand. And yeah,

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Speaker 2: a treat just give to New Zealanders.

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Speaker 1: So for people who don't know what cinnabon is, can

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Speaker 1: you describe it?

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Speaker 2: It's the best cinnamon roles that you ever eat. We

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Speaker 2: provide you know, frosting on it, with lots of other

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Speaker 2: treats such as coffee chiladas. It's a package.

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Speaker 1: It's a sometimes food delicious, but definitely are sometimes food

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Speaker 1: that there'd be a fair assessment of a sinnabon, right.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a treat, you know, just that one extra

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Speaker 2: thing that you need after dinner as a treat your

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Speaker 2: sweet tooth. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: So obviously this has been a huge success in some

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Speaker 1: other markets like the US. Why did you think that

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Speaker 1: it would be a big deal in New Zealand.

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Speaker 2: We've been studying the Asia Pacific markets for a while now,

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Speaker 2: and with the success that it's had in Australia and

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Speaker 2: with their rapid expansion that it's doing in the Southern

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Speaker 2: Asian markets in the Pacific market industr Arlia, we definitely

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Speaker 2: thought that this wasn't something that would be really good

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Speaker 2: in New Zealand, and it would we can be expand

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Speaker 2: a lot as well.

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Speaker 1: How tricky is it to pick up the franchise rights

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Speaker 1: for something like Sinnabon.

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Speaker 2: There's a couple of hopes and hurdles to go through,

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Speaker 2: but in the sense of you know, setting up and stuff,

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Speaker 2: it's pretty It's pretty hard, but it also has a

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Speaker 2: toll on you. But we're all it's pretty good.

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Speaker 1: And what are you hoping for Cinnabon and New Zealand.

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Speaker 1: Are we going to see more than one stare?

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Speaker 2: Definitely so over the next five years, we're looking at

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Speaker 2: rapid expansion all over, firstly in Auckland and then towards

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Speaker 2: the other parts of the country.

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Speaker 1: Good stuff, good good luck, Kaithan. We appreciate your time,

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Speaker 1: kath and Peric, who is the director of Sinnabon New Zealand.

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