Hawke’s Bay wine tourism industry took centre stage at The Old Church, as five local businesses were named winners of the 2027 Hawke’s Bay Great Wine Capitals Best Of Wine Tourism Awards, with Black Barn Vineyards claiming a hat-trick of wins, taking out three of the seven categories. The awards
Ten Napier Port Fleet Services team members have earned their Level 5 electric vehicle qualification through EIT, building the specialist skills needed to support the Port’s growing battery-electric fleet. The team has completed the New Zealand Certificate in Electric Vehicle Automotive Engineering (Level 5), which develops advanced technical skills in
EOI seeks delivery and co-investment partners for proposed 12–17MW project Hawke’s Bay Airport Limited’s proposed solar farm has reached an important milestone, with an Expression of Interest (EOI) process now open for delivery and co-investment partners. Hawke’s Bay Airport CEO Nick Flack says the project would establish an important infrastructure
I meet a lot of people who are new to Hawke’s Bay and enthusiastic about what they find. Fewer arrive with a decade in global technology and time on the ground in Silicon Valley to give that enthusiasm some weight. Tom Fox is Californian, and he brought that perspective with
Napier Port has posted another strong quarter, with underlying profit up nearly 39 percent as container volumes and pricing continue to do the heavy lifting for the regional exporter. The NZX-listed port operator’s unaudited results for the nine months to 30 June 2026 show revenue up 11.1 percent to $134
Hastings has lost, in my humble opinion, a giant totara. I have lost a close friend, 100s have lost a loyal work colleague, the region has lost a “can do” ambassador. I first met Nigel years before he became CE, when he spoke at an Apples for Peers conference in
Hawke’s Bay vegetable growers have today confirmed that while it is not workable for them to continue to explore purchasing the McCain vegetable processing facility in Hastings, they remain committed to securing a future for frozen vegetable production in the region. The growers’ interest in the McCain facility was on
Being Damon: the leadership journey – Jo Dowley insights One of the most powerful things about coaching is that people often come in thinking they need help with one thing, only to discover that the real opportunity for change lies somewhere else entirely. Damon began coaching wanting to improve his
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
