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CREATING STORIES TO GROW STRONG BRANDS

With their home on the North Shore, and their business based over the harbour bridge in Ponsonby, Nik Payne and Sarah Delany, co-directors of Mount Deluxe, regard Auckland’s iconic ‘coathanger’ as a tangible divide separating business from family.

Not surprisingly, business and family are incredibly important to this couple, with family a relatively late chapter to their life-story.

After first meeting at design school, Nik and Sarah subsequently combined their talents to create their own brand-focused design agency ten years ago. Today they have a five-year-old daughter and seven-year old son – although it wasn’t until 2017 that

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