Gifford Devine’s growing team of young lawyers is shaping the future of one of Hawke’s Bay’s most established law firms. Supported by experienced partners and a collaborative culture, they’re gaining broad experience across the firm’s wide range of legal services. From property and commercial to family law, they represent a
Few professional services firms have influenced Hawke’s Bay’s business life as deeply as Gifford Devine. Established in 1896, the firm has advised generations of families, farmers, and business owners. Its story is one of longevity and evolution. While it honours its history, Gifford Devine is firmly focused on the future
After a restructure in a tight job market didn’t go his way, Kole McGarvey spent three months “screaming through savings” before walking into MSD in search of a job. The very next day he interviewed for, and landed, a Ministry of Social Development cadetship role at T&G Global’s Hastings site
Movember is drawing to a close and two Hastings men with powerful personal reasons for supporting men’s health, former Flaxmere councillor and legendary barber Peleti Oli and Hastings District Council chief executive Nigel Bickle, are inviting others to finish the month strong. All men taking part in Movember, along with
Walk into the Brebner Print premises in Napier and you’ll find the hum of high-tech presses, the sharp scent of ink, and a team that knows how to hit a deadline. But look a little deeper, and you’ll discover a business doing much more than running off brochures and business
Some people grow into business. For Sharon Smith, it was more like she was born into it. Long before she founded SDS Advisory – a Hawke’s Bay-based virtual CFO and bookkeeping service – Sharon was shadowing her father, Chris, in the family business, Russell Roads. While other kids might’ve been
In 1985, not long after joining Hastings District Council, Mark Clews ran a team workshop imagining a world of plastic money, internet shopping, and remote work. At the time, it sounded far-fetched. Thirty-five years later, as he prepares to retire, it reads like a blueprint for the modern economy. Mark’s
What if the next Rocket Lab, Fingermark, or Xero was already here in Hawke’s Bay, but we missed it?While other regions have been building angel investor networks and early-stage capital ecosystems to back bold ideas, Hawke’s Bay has been sitting on the sidelines. We’ve got talented founders, emerging innovators and
Like their stunning homes, the foundations of Design Builders were carefully laid – and over the past three decades, they’ve been built upon with precision, vision, and a very Kiwi kind of ingenuity. It started in Hawke’s Bay in 1992 when Andy Bell rebranded his family construction business to better
In just thirteen years, Hastings-based Oneshot Earthworks has made a name for itself in Hawke’s Bay’s competitive civil, commercial and residential sectors. Led by founder Kale Atkinson, the company specialises in subdivisions, siteworks, retaining walls, earth walls, anchor pile drilling and general earthworks, with a growing fleet of modern equipment
