Innovative Tauranga IT company Pingar is setting up an Asian base in Hong Kong.

Pingar is a pioneering internet search engine developed in Tauranga which aims to compete with search engine giants like Google and Yahoo.
Pingar's new Hong Kong site will be based in the city's prestigious Science & Innovation Park, close to one of its key partners and a range of potential Asian customers.
Sharon-May McCrostie, New Zealand's trade commissioner in Hong Kong, endorses Pingar's move into the Asian market.
'Pingar has a revolutionary, clever way of search that will transform so many industry sectors, including publishing and monetizing online content.
It has been very exciting for us to see a New Zealand company taking on the world and making real inroads,” says Sharon.
Pingar CEO Peter Wern-Hilton says the company has to continually evolve so we keep ahead of our competition globally.
There was a strong awareness of the problems and Bay of Plenty companies are reasonably lean but are in a position to manage this recession more than any other recession before,” says Peter