The Little Cracker is manufactured by Tarlan Technical Ltd, which is a general engineering business owned by husband and wife team Bert and Jodi van Beuzekom. Their daughter, Taryn, also helps out too, trading learning valuable skills that she may need in a future job for wages, which is a labour of love. 
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Bert van Beuzekom
Founder and Managing Director

Formerly an aircraft engineer for Fieldair Engineering, Bert is now the plant engineer for The Freight Hub at Christchurch Airport. But he also builds fires and other engineering products in our home based engineering workshop.

Current hobbies/projects - rebuilding a BMW race car, restoring a 90 year old pool table, fitting out new 180 sqm workshop and various other projects!

Trained on Solidworks CAD drawing so very good at finding your engineering solution
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Jodi van Beuzekom
Admin and Sales

Jodi is a very busy but very awesome mother and wife. 


She might also be the one who answers your call. 

Taryn van Beuzekom
Website Author and Admin Manager 

Aside from working full-time alongside Dad at the Christchurch Airport, I still maintain both websites for our Little Cracker fires and the multi-fuel ovens we import from Greece.

I also divide my time between the workshop and the office, performing tasks such as: helping to assemble the fires, stock-takes and ordering components, keeping track of order statuses and also completing the not-so-fun tasks like GST returns and paying supplier invoices.

Both the fires and the freight as well as helping Mum makes it challenging to have some spare time. But when I do, I love to spend time with my family, friends and pets, play a few video games, watch a few of my favorite TV series, listen to music and write the occasional story (sometimes original, sometimes fanfiction).  
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