Jeremy Kirksmith: Planet Fun CEO on the changing safety standards for children's toys

episode

Best of Business not yet transcribed

▲ 0

Transcript

This episode hasn't been transcribed yet Upvotes decide what gets transcribed next — 0 so far. Sign in to upvote

More from Best of Business

Jannet Xuccoa: When's the right time for a trust? 44 min · 21 Dec 2025

All episodes from Best of Business →

Report any issue

Source

Recorded01 Jul 2026

Publisheromnycontent.com ↗

Handlerec:19131142

Show notes

New Zealand is aligning its toy safety standards with Australia. The Ministry for Regulation says the change will save a net $6.8 million dollars over the next decade, by reducing the need to retest products already compliant with US and EU standards. Planet Fun CEO Jeremy Kirksmith has welcomed this decision and says it's about time these change were made. "We import about 1500 different toys a year - different skews, as we call it, and we have to have separate testing for every single skew, because so many of our standards are so different to everywhere else on the planet." LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ask this episode

“What did the council decide on item 42?” — answered with the speaker and the moment.