When Matt Sanders returned to Hawke’s Bay in 2021 to open a Beca office, he started with a team of four, a desk at Hastings Hive, and a simple ambition: build something genuinely useful for the region. Five years on, the team has grown to around 20 people, they’ve moved
When the Rockit Global coolstore at Irongate, Hastings opened earlier this year, it did so a month ahead of schedule. For a premium apple brand whose entire business model depends on supplying fruit to markets around the world across a full twelve months, the timing was everything. The harvest waits
Paul Michaelsen has spent more than three decades learning, in very practical terms, what it means to put a client first. That ethos shapes everything about HBMI, the business he founded in 2017 after 25 years inside the banking sector. Paul started as a bank teller in Hastings in 1992
A site blessing and ceremonial groundbreaking has marked the official start of construction on the Central Hawke’s Bay solar farm project. Representatives from Te Taiwhenua o Tamatea, Centralines, Lodestone Energy, the Central Hawke’s Bay Consumers Power Trust, Central Hawke’s Bay Mayor Will Foley and project partners gathered on site to
