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Working hard to keep cargo flowing and support regional economic growth

Napier Port has delivered a strong half year earning result. Napier Port CEO Todd Dawson says a strong port is important to region’s economic prosperity. “When the region does well, Napier Port does well and vice versa. That’s why it’s pleasing to deliver strong earnings recovery in the first half of our financial year.” In the first six months of...

Aura Consulting: Crafting tailored staffing solutions

Aura Consulting has established itself as a leader in specialist recruitment services in Hawke’s Bay, offering unparalleled expertise, personalised services and an intimate understanding of the local job market, industry trends and business landscape. Bede Ashby, a Hawke’s Bay recruitment expert highlights the myriad of staffing challenges organisations face in today’s dynamic business environment. These challenges range from filling short-term...

A new direction for longstanding business – Orsborn Roadmarkers

Orsborn Roadmarkers have a long history of making their mark across Hawke’s Bay and beyond. As the family-owned business celebrates 60 years serving the Bay, they are embarking on a bold and exciting new direction and embracing the opportunity of a change of ownership. Local businessman Taurus Taurima, owner of the multi-award winning civil construction business Topline Contracting, has purchased...

Te Rae offers new meeting space to meet demand

Looking for a meeting space or somewhere to host a small scale conference, Te Rae is at the head of the local offerings. Te Rae has opened in Queen Street Hastings, in the old Post Office building and has six meeting spaces ranging in capacity from 2 to 80 people. It has been set up by the Hawke’s Bay Regional...

New report finds $410 million needed for Hawke’s Bay horticulture sector a year on from Cyclone Gabrielle

One year on from an initial analysis of the impacts of Cyclone Gabrielle, a new report from Boston Consulting Group (BCG) has found the Hawke's Bay horticultural sector needs at least $410 million in additional funding to recover to its pre-cyclone state by 2030. BCG’s report, Hawke’s Bay Horticultural Sector: Economic recovery update: a year after Cyclone Gabrielle, has found...

A bit of nous to combat resourcing challenges. Business Profile – Development Nous

Many professions have struggled with skill shortages in recent years but local land development consultancy business, Development Nous Limited has taken a new approach that works for all parties – the business, their clients and their remote team members based in Sweden and South Africa. Development Nous, which first started in Hastings in 2016 with six staff and two directors,...

Unearthing the SharePoint Goldmine: How Microsoft Copilot Supercharges Data Discovery

A few years back, my friend Johnathan, who was working as a Principal Solution Architect for AWS, visited EIT to spend some time with our students. He told me about this new thing called Alexa for Business. What he told me was futuristic ... imagine a CEO in a board meeting orally asking Alexa for financial projections based on data...

Unison – 100 years of powering Hawke’s Bay business

In the early days of electricity, power generation, and supply were managed by local Councils or Municipal departments. Hastings first gained electricity in 1912. The Electric Power Boards Act of 1918 allowed Power Boards to provide electricity to areas not served by local governments. In 1923, backed by Hawke’s Bay County, a committee formed a Power Board to manage electricity...

First harvest of table grapes – the ‘king of fruit’

Divine table grapes that herald the start of a brand new industry in Hawke’s Bay have been coming off vines in Maraekakaho. It is the first harvest of Greencollar, an innovative Japanese company determined to expand the currently tiny table grape industry in New Zealand. Greencollar featured in The Profit in early 2023. The harvest follows a complex and intricate...

Keeping technology simple for 40 years – Richie Richards – Tech Group

Forty years on and Electrotech founder Richie Richards hasn’t changed his philosophy when it comes to technology – “keep it simple…you should be able to ignore the user manual and just turn it on”. A visit to Richie’s art deco Kennedy Road premises, once the heart of the business he founded in 1984, is now a historical journey of how...