TrustList ranks 194 companies in New Zealand across 7 categories. The biggest lists are IT service providers (126), recruitment agencies (15) and accounting firms (14). Each list below is the top of its full ranking, ordered by rating, review volume and listing quality; no one pays for a position.
The businesses here list work in Auckland, New Zealand, Australia, Australia, New Zealand and Christchurch. 186 of them have written a profile you can read before you get in touch.
What to check before you hire in New Zealand
Which legal entity signs, and which country's courts the contract names — the office you met may not be the company on the invoice
Where your data will actually be stored and processed, and whether that is allowed under the rules you are bound by
Who owns the work: intellectual property assignment has to be valid under the law of the supplier's country, not only yours
The overlap in working hours you will really get, and who is reachable when something breaks at your end of the day
The currency you are billed in, who carries the exchange-rate movement, and what the payment fees add
References from clients in your own market, not only in the supplier's — the ones who had to manage the distance
How the relationship ends: notice, handover of code, credentials and data, and what happens to staff assigned to you
Each section below is the top of that category's own ranking for New Zealand, so the two pages can never disagree. At the top of the largest of them, IT service providers, right now: Koda Web Ltd, Magnomates and Pixel Fusion.
Mobile App Development · Web Development · iOS App
We are one of Australia & New Zealand’s leading web, mobile, and smart app companies- delivering apps, machine learning and AI solutions to some of NZ's and Australia’s top…
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Eagle Recruitment is the trading name of Phil Eagle Recruitment Limited, a New Zealand recruitment agency. The company was registered under the Companies Act 1993 in October 2018.
Big Day Events is an event management company based in Auckland, New Zealand. It has designed events to order since 2001 and works across the country and internationally.
Fabric Digital is a digital marketing and web design agency in Auckland, New Zealand. It works with companies across the country and aims its services at sales growth.
The order is earned: ratings, verified reviews and listing quality decide it, and nobody can pay to move up. There are two ways to stand out, and each one says what it is.
A position here is earned, never bought. It is worked out from what a firm publishes and what has been verified about it:
Profile completeness: the details a buyer needs to judge a firm — what it does, who it serves, how it prices, who it has worked for
Earned trust: verification, awards and the other checks a firm has actually passed
Client reviews, where they exist: the rating is smoothed, so one five-star review cannot outrank a firm with a hundred good ones, and volume counts with diminishing returns
Be clear about the third one: client reviews are still rare across this catalogue, so on most lists today the order is set by the first two. A firm near the top is the best-documented and best-verified one we hold, which is not the same claim as the best one to hire. Use the list to build a shortlist, then check the firms yourself.
No firm can pay for a position. Sponsored listings are labelled and shown apart from this list. How rankings work