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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-ZW link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><img width=848 height=288 id="Picture_x0020_4" src="cid:image002.jpg@01D5E528.C8F61280"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=story-bodyintroduction style='mso-margin-top-alt:21.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Nick Mowbray, the co-founder and co-chief executive of toymaker Zuru.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:17.25pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch: inherit;font-size:1rem;font-weight:inherit;letter-spacing:inherit'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>A few years into trying to build a toy business in China, budding entrepreneur Nick Mowbray got a lucky break - a whiff of interest from Walmart.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:13.5pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch: inherit;font-size:1rem;font-weight:inherit;letter-spacing:inherit'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The US retail giant wanted to visit Zuru's showroom in Hong Kong. Nick quickly agreed, and promised to send the address. Now all he had to do was set-up a showroom.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:13.5pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch: inherit;font-size:1rem;font-weight:inherit;letter-spacing:inherit'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>"The next day I'm on a train to Hong, knocking on doors," the 34-year-old says.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:13.5pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch: inherit;font-size:1rem;font-weight:inherit;letter-spacing:inherit'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>It's a story that captures the early days of Zuru - a company the New Zealander founded with his brother Mat in 2003 - hustling and figuring it out as they went along.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:13.5pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch: inherit;font-size:1rem;font-weight:inherit;letter-spacing:inherit'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Today the pair, along with their sister Anna, preside over a global firm that employs 5,000 people, and expects annual sales of $460m (£356m) this year. The success has made the family one of the wealthiest in New Zealand.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:13.5pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch: inherit;font-size:1rem;font-weight:inherit;letter-spacing:inherit'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>It all began back in the brothers' school days. Mat created a hot air balloon kit - made from a coke can and a plastic bag - which they sold door-to-door. The teenagers became more serious about the venture and got a tiny factory going on their parents' dairy farm in rural north island New Zealand.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:13.5pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch: inherit;font-size:1rem;font-weight:inherit;letter-spacing:inherit'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>"As payment we had to milk the cows and spray some weeds," Nick says.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:13.5pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch: inherit;font-size:1rem;font-weight:inherit;letter-spacing:inherit'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>At the time, Nick was studying law at university and helping out on the side. Mat had pulled out of college to focus on toys full-time. Things rumbled along until one day the brothers made a snap decision. Why not try their luck in China?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:13.5pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch: inherit;font-size:1rem;font-weight:inherit;letter-spacing:inherit'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>So at 18, Nick also dropped out of university and shortly after boarded a plane to Hong Kong with then 22-year-old Mat. They had "made some contacts on the internet" but were otherwise vastly ill-equipped - unable to speak the language and short on business savvy.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:13.5pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch: inherit;font-size:1rem;font-weight:inherit;letter-spacing:inherit'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>"We were so naïve, we had no idea what we were doing," says Nick.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:13.5pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch: inherit;font-size:1rem;font-weight:inherit;letter-spacing:inherit'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>With a $20,000 loan from their parents, they bought an injection moulding machine, and set up a small factory in Guangzhou, China. Zuru was up and running.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:13.5pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'><img width=976 height=549 id="Picture_x0020_7" src="cid:image004.jpg@01D61C6C.F970C010" alt="A Zuru office"></span><span style='color:#1F497D'><br>Image copyrightZURUImage captionThe company was originally Guru but another firm had that name trademarked, so it switched to Zuru<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:13.5pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The next few years were lean and chaotic. Nick recounts a stream of mishaps that exposed their inexperience, like making products copied from the internet.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:13.5pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch: inherit;font-size:1rem;font-weight:inherit;letter-spacing:inherit'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>"We'd breached all of this IP [intellectual property]. We didn't know what IP was, or patents."<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:13.5pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch: inherit;font-size:1rem;font-weight:inherit;letter-spacing:inherit'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Products had to be pulled in favour of new ones and fresh ideas. Nick would sit on the phone all night, ringing retailers all over the world, searching for clients.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:13.5pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch: inherit;font-size:1rem;font-weight:inherit;letter-spacing:inherit'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The Walmart bite helped, and he quickly got a "tiny" showroom up and running in Hong Kong. All he could afford, it was a far cry from typical toy showrooms - large, open spaces he later discovered were central to the industry. That room also became his part-time home as he lived between Hong Kong and mainland China.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:13.5pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch: inherit;font-size:1rem;font-weight:inherit;letter-spacing:inherit'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>"I used to unroll a mattress and sleep under the table," says Nick. "I'd wash at public bathrooms."<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:13.5pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch: inherit;font-size:1rem;font-weight:inherit;letter-spacing:inherit'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>He remembers one potential client turning up before he'd risen for the day. Nick was asleep under the table: "I just had to stay there and stay quiet."<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:13.5pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch: inherit;font-size:1rem;font-weight:inherit;letter-spacing:inherit'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Zuru was making money but the products "weren't great," Nick says, and reorders were slim. But it was enough to get revenues flowing, and Anna joined the business in 2005.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:13.5pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch: inherit;font-size:1rem;font-weight:inherit;letter-spacing:inherit'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>"We did have one month where we lost money, and I remember sitting down with my brother and sister and saying this is never going to happen again."<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:13.5pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'><img width=976 height=549 id="Picture_x0020_6" src="cid:image005.jpg@01D61C6C.F970C010" alt="Nick Mowbray and Anna Mowbray"></span><span style='color:#1F497D'><br>Image copyrightZURUImage captionNick, here with sister Anna, who joined the firm in 2005. Brother Mat prefers to stay out of the limelight<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:13.5pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>It was another five years before a robotic fish would deliver their big break. A Chinese inventor created Robo Fish - an electronic, plastic toy that moved in water - which Zuru manufactured. It pulled in $100m in annual sales.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:13.5pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch: inherit;font-size:1rem;font-weight:inherit;letter-spacing:inherit'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>"That was when we really had a big hit on our hands. We were in every retailer in the world, everybody wanted Robo Fish. It gave us all this momentum."<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:13.5pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch: inherit;font-size:1rem;font-weight:inherit;letter-spacing:inherit'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Things sped up. They hired more people in China, and learned how to make better toys by identifying trends and improving design.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:13.5pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch: inherit;font-size:1rem;font-weight:inherit;letter-spacing:inherit'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Nowdays, the firm's products are sold in 120 countries. Zuru doesn't release profit figures, but Nick claims it is "one of the most profitable toy companies in the world".<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:13.5pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch: inherit;font-size:1rem;font-weight:inherit;letter-spacing:inherit'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Still, the IP issues that dogged the firm early on haven't totally gone away, and Zuru is in a legal fight with Lego. The Danish toy giant argues Zuru has copied the design of certain figurines.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:13.5pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch: inherit;font-size:1rem;font-weight:inherit;letter-spacing:inherit'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>"Our products are totally different to Lego," Nick says. "We haven't copied any of their products. Lego is just litigious, they want to protect their monopoly."<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:13.5pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'><img width=976 height=549 id="Picture_x0020_5" src="cid:image006.jpg@01D61C6C.F970C010" alt="Zuru toys"></span><span style='color:#1F497D'><br>Image copyrightZURUImage captionZuru manufactures toys at four factories in China<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:13.5pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>These days Zuru employs about 5,000 workers across its offices and factories. It's headquartered in Hong Kong, where 38-year-old Mat and Anna, 36, still live. Mat is Zuru's co-chief executive, and Anna is the firm's chief operating officer. Apart from the initial loan from mum and dad, they have never taken any outside funding.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:13.5pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch: inherit;font-size:1rem;font-weight:inherit;letter-spacing:inherit'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>"Basing themselves in Asia, the siblings realised they needed to be global from the outset," says Chris Wilkinson, managing director of retail consultancy First Retail Group.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:13.5pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch: inherit;font-size:1rem;font-weight:inherit;letter-spacing:inherit'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>He adds that it is "hard not to admire" the determination of Nick, his brother and sister.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:13.5pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch: inherit;font-size:1rem;font-weight:inherit;letter-spacing:inherit'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>"From subsistence living in Hong Kong during the formative years of Zuru, while developing and pitching products... this is entrepreneurship at its best."<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:13.5pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch: inherit;font-size:1rem;font-weight:inherit;letter-spacing:inherit'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Nick now mostly lives in Auckland, and also spends time at the NZ$32.5m ($21.4m; £16m) Kiwi rural retreat he bought with his siblings in 2017. Just north of New Zealand's largest city, the sweeping property was once the home of internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:13.5pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch: inherit;font-size:1rem;font-weight:inherit;letter-spacing:inherit'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The family ranks among New Zealand's richest, with a net worth of NZ$3bn, according to the country's National Business Review.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:13.5pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'><img width=976 height=549 id="_x0000_i1029" src="cid:image007.jpg@01D61C6C.F970C010" alt="Coatesville property"></span><span style='color:#1F497D'><br>Image copyrightCOURTESY OF MAHOENUI ESTATE/ZURUImage captionThe multi-million dollar family retreat in Coatesville, less than a hour's drive from Auckland<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:13.5pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Nick decided to return home in 2018 to confront what he describes his biggest challenge. Since his mid-20s he's suffered from Crohn's disease, a condition that causes inflammation of the bowel. Last year he had three surgeries to remove his large intestine.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:13.5pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch: inherit;font-size:1rem;font-weight:inherit;letter-spacing:inherit'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>It was the final option, after nearly a decade of sickness, that drained Nick of energy and saw him shed around 20kg.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:13.5pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch: inherit;font-size:1rem;font-weight:inherit;letter-spacing:inherit'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Looking back, Nick believes the stress of building a business made his condition worse.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:13.5pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch: inherit;font-size:1rem;font-weight:inherit;letter-spacing:inherit'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>"I was so sick it started attacking my hair follicles. I lost everything, eyebrows, hair. It was so bad I could barely function. I had to have surgery."<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:13.5pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch: inherit;font-size:1rem;font-weight:inherit;letter-spacing:inherit'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Those surgeries - which he says created a new bowel out of his small intestine - have been transformative. "It's been amazing. I feel almost back to 100%."<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:13.5pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>It's energised Nick to start new projects. He launched Zuru Edge, a venture focusing on consumer products such as nappies, pet food and hair care. They're sold in markets around the world, with plenty more products in the pipeline.—BBC<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'><img width=976 height=549 id="Picture_x0020_8" src="cid:image008.jpg@01D61C6C.F970C010" alt="Nick Mowbray"></span><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Image copyrightZURUImage captionNick runs the business with his brother and sister<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:13.5pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><i><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><i><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'>Invest Wisely!</span></i><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'>Bulls n Bears <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'>Telephone:     <a href="tel:%2B263%204%202927658" target="_blank"><span style='color:windowtext'>+263 4 2927658</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'>Cellphone:     <a href="tel:%2B263%2077%20344%201674" target="_blank"><span style='color:windowtext'>+263 77 344 1674</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'>Alt. Email:      <a href="mailto:info@bulls.co.zw"><span style='color:windowtext'>info@bulls.co.zw</span></a>  <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'>Website:        <a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bulls.co.zw&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNH8LYgdY55h-XKseuM8Kpr-JKdfhQ" target="_blank"><span style='color:windowtext'>www.bulls.co.zw</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'>Blog:           <a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bulls.co.zw%2Fblog&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNFoIy6F9IXAiYnSoPSgWDYsr8Sqtw" target="_blank"><span style='color:windowtext'>www.bulls.co.zw/blog</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast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