Hawke’s Bay has firmly cemented its place among the world’s great wine regions after successfully hosting the 26th Great Wine Capitals International Annual Conference from 18 to 22 October. The five-day conference brought 85 international guests from 17 countries to the region, including delegations from the network’s member capitals such
HouseMe has kicked some big goals this year. Strong sales at Fieldays, new show home locations, two land and housing development trials underway including one in Central Hawke’s Bay, and the launch of a foundation system built to get people into a new home faster. For a company plenty still
Unison Group has published a 2025/26 Sustainability Update, sharing progress made over the past year with a maturing framework now guiding sustainability across the Group, and building on the foundation established through Unison Group’s first sustainability report in 2025. A key development this year is the Unison Group Sustainability Strategy,
Plenty of leaders who are mid-career or looking for change know exactly what’s wrong. They’ve read the books, done the podcasts, picked up a useful line or two from a seminar. What they haven’t done is turn any of it into a habit that survives a bad week. That gap,
Most mornings, Richard Kettle’s phone fills up with texts from farmers. Not enquiries. Not complaints. Orders. Drums of drench for Wairoa. Supplements heading to the Wairarapa. Fly control products bound for Gore. No quote requested, no price check, just farmers who’ve found a supplier they trust and are getting on
Kaweka Hospital. The stopbank rebuild after Cyclone Gabrielle. Napier’s newest suburb taking shape at Mission, above Taradale. If you have watched Hawke’s Bay change over the past nine years, there is a good chance you have been looking at local twin-city planning consultancy Stradegy’s work without knowing it. Stradegy, with
Duncan and Amanda moved their family from Wellington to Hawke’s Bay in 2007 to take on the exclusive local partnership for a major international copier brand. Their kids were seven and nine. Duncan had a small consultancy running in the capital and Amanda was working in a senior HR role,
There is a quiet significance to what is happening in the back of the Civil Services office in Onekawa, Napier. Soil samples collected from construction sites across Hawke’s Bay are being tested in an onsite laboratory, the results feeding directly back to engineers and contractors in the field. It is
Growth often comes with change, but for this Hawke’s Bay insurance broker, one principle has remained constant: treat every client as equally important. From personal and rural policies, to large commercial portfolios, the business has built its reputation on providing the same care, expertise and commitment to every client who
Written by EIT chief executive Lucy Laitinen Before this year, I hadn’t fully appreciated how important our education partnerships with China are, not just for EIT, but for Hawke’s Bay and New Zealand. Two visits over the past two months have changed that. In June, I travelled to Shaoxing and
