Ultimate Hire

Ultimate Hire is a New Zealand owned and operated, web-based, equipment hire platform. Our aim is to provide a centralised hub for individuals and businesses to rent, hire and lend items with our secure online payments system.

The sharing economy has ballooned over the past decade and is becoming a driving force for companies and individuals to become more sustainable. Ultimate Hire makes it easy to reduce the purchase of items that are not required often or used once and thrown out.

We aim to reinvest 10% of profits back into more sustainable options and initiatives for all New Zealanders. We believe all companies have a duty of care to their communities as well as supporting charities and worthwhile causes.

Starting your own business is exciting but challenging. You don’t always have the capital to purchase assets and this is where the story of Ultimate Hire begins.

In 2013, I took the plunge and started my own business. I didn’t have the capital to purchase all the assets I needed to start. Online shopping was in its infancy and there weren’t many businesses that recognized the value of having an online presence, which made it challenging to source the products and services I needed at the time.

Increasingly over the past seven years, whether I was on holiday or doing renovations to my house, it has been frustrating getting hire equipment as it was often already booked out and not available in a short time frame or on a whim. The current hire market certainly wasn’t catering to my needs in terms of variety either.

What came out of that frustration was an idea to create a platform where you could just about hire anything and everything, all done online from the comfort of your own home.