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Hastings City Business Association relocates to Hastings Hive

The Hastings City Business Association has relocated to the co-working and serviced office space, Hastings Hive. Business Association general manager Anita Alder said the move will optimise the services that they provide to over 500 businesses in the CBD. “For us Hastings Hive provides the association a multi-purpose facility where we run our day to day operations in a superbly...

Energy sector will experience mega trends

Ken Sutherland has been the Unison chief executive for over a decade. In 2011 Ken was the inaugural winner of the Profiteers for his strong leadership of our local lines company. Over the last decade there have been changes within the energy sector but Ken sees some megatrends starting to emerge. What’s likely to change in the energy sector? An...

Ngā Ara Tipuna gets PGF funding in Central Hawke’s Bay

The government’s Provincial Growth Fund continues to support economic development projects across Hawke’s Bay with nearly $9 million announced in January. Wairoa has been given up to $6.1m to rebuild the heart of its CBD with three initiatives while Central Hawke’s Bay has been given $2.8m for a proposed project to turn Waipukurau pā sites into a cultural tourism attraction....

Digital whizzes set to take flight from Wairoa

Eight Wairoa people are on their way to becoming digital whizzes following a $960,000 Provincial Growth Fund (PGF) investment boost. The first intake of eight apprentices will have the opportunity to become certified in a variety of digital software including Maya 4D, Unity (2D and 3D gaming development software) and Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, After Effects, Premiere Pro editing software)....

The Profit – Celebrating 10 years

The launch editorial team for The Profit totalled four – Anna Lorck, Lawrence Gullery, Kate de Lautour and me. We wanted to unite the region. We made a bold statement that we would be representing a “fresh generation of local business people” and that we were over petty infighting between Hastings and Napier. Our first editorial headline announced: “Hawke’s Bay...

Capturing Award Winning Success

They started out with an office in their kids’ rumpus room at their home in Clive in 2015, now Nicky and Kane Grundy have a Chamber of Commerce Business Awards trophy in their high-profile space at the Tech Collective in Ahuriri. The entrepreneurs, who have always owned their own businesses, have ticked off numerous goals since starting their video production...

Charlie Wallace – rocking to success

The hard work has paid off for musician and online entrepreneur Charlie Wallace, who now has the financial freedom to realise his dream of becoming an international rock star. It’s a ‘high school dropout becomes a success’ story for the former Taradale High School student, who has created a multimillion-dollar online business before the age of 30. His teachers may...

Doug Ducker – an industry icon retires

Doug Ducker has seen more than two consecutive forestry plantations grow to full harvest, having worked for Pan Pac for nearly 46 years. Doug started as a process engineer and in 2004 became the businesses Managing Director. Pan Pac began as a Joint Venture involving Carter Holt (60%) and two Japanese companies, Oji Paper and Sanyo Kokusaku Pulp in 1973...

Hawke’s Bay Airport achieves first step towards carbon neutral status

Hawke’s Bay Airport has succeeded in its first step towards carbon neutrality, gaining Level 1 of the internationally recognised Airport Carbon Accreditation programme. Hawke’s Bay Airport chief executive Stuart Ainslie said the airport has completed the mapping stage of the Airports Council International (ACI) Airport Carbon Accreditation programme and is well underway to becoming New Zealand’s first carbon neutral airport....

Municipal Building – what will it become?

The redevelopment of the Municipal Building got underway in January 2019 and is expected to be completed in early 2022. At this stage the final make-up of what will operate in the building hasn’t been finalised, but it is certain that the Assembly Dining Hall and the Shakespeare Room will remain and it will be promoted as a commercial, community...