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
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
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
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
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
