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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
ASB Bank has committed funding to support the development of Central Hawke’s Bay’s first utility-scale solar farm, with joint venture partners Centralines and Lodestone Energy confirming the project has reached financial close. This marks a major milestone, securing the funding required to support the project as it moves through construction.
This year, Karamu Rotary marks 50 years as a club, 35 years of its annual cocktail party fundraiser, and 10 years of Advanced Plumbing as the event’s naming rights sponsor. Any one of those milestones would be worth raising a glass to. Together, they tell the story of a group
How Mark Watkins helped grow Advanced Plumbing into one of the region’s leading trade businesses More than sixty staff. Three of the biggest active construction projects in Hawke’s Bay. A Taupō branch, nationally award-winning tradespeople, and a project list that stretches from geothermal power stations to helicopter-access-only lodges deep in
As a Hastings CBD business owner and former district councillor, I am calling on Hastings District Council to make the best possible decision it can within a flawed process, and to be under no illusion about what is at stake if it gets this wrong. I am co-owner of O-Studio
Businesses have lifted their game on cybersecurity in recent years. Investment in monitoring, detection and response has grown and leadership confidence is high. Yet Datacom’s 2026 Cybersecurity Index reveals a gap that should concern every business owner and leadership team — recovery and continuity are lagging behind detection. The Cybersecurity
During one of our coaching programmes last month, we asked a simple but confronting question: What if you could learn the most important life lessons — not at the end of your life, but right now? Palliative care nurse Bronnie Ware spent years caring for people in their final days
