The Waipaoa Farm Cadet Training Trust has announced Jeremy Williams and Tim Rhodes will join the trust board. Board chairman Pat Sherriff said they had gained two highly experienced men in the New Zealand sheep and beef industry.“We are very...
After six years in the region, a youth employability programme is changing providers. Licence to Work (LTW) is a cross-sector, business-led initiative designed to respond to business and industry concerns that young people may not be developing the...
A proposed deal to purchase Zalm Therapeutics Limited provides Tairawhiti-based Rua Biosciencewith a “great opportunity”, Rua chief executive Rob Mitchell says. NZX-listed Rua has entered into an agreement to acquire 100 percent of Zalm...
Trust Tairawhiti has launched an online survey to capture the impact this current lockdown is having on local business owners and operators. Accessible through the trust website, the short survey asks questions around the areas of business affected...
CRUISE ships visiting Gisborne last year added $3 million to the New Zealand economy and, with a record number of cruise liners waiting to visit, that contribution is expected to grow by another $10 million over the next two years. Eighteen ships are...
Following the first economic effects of the Covid-19 lockdown last year, Tairāwhiti was the first region to get a government-funded recovery package. A year on, those involved look back at the success of the $23.755m Tairāwhiti Economic Support...
Several weeks ago the Gisborne Tairawhiti Chamber of Commerce was asked to advocate against the Government’s Progressive Procurement Policy. We confess, it was something that we knew little about, so we chose to get ourselves educated. Thanks to...
Economic and Regional Development, Forestry, Small Business and Tourism Minister Stuart Nash says Gisborne businesses will benefit from recent Budget 2022 announcements. Speaking to The Herald last week, Mr Nash provided details around how the $100m...
A PORTFOLIO of nearly 60 new commercial ventures has been put together to pitch the region to investors keen on cashing in on the popularity of tourism here. In the same week that Tourism Industry Aotearoa launched its local government manifesto...
The double-header cruise ship visit on Monday went well with around 360 passengers ashore for the day from the Silver Muse and the smaller National Geographic Orion. The ships anchored out in Turanganui-a-Kiwa/Poverty Bay.“The weather could have...
GOVERNMENT representatives will be in town next week to improve the efficiency of their dealings with local business owners. As part of the Government’s Taking Care of Business roadshows, Small Business Minister Craig Foss and speakers from...
Undertaking studies at EIT motivated one woman to start a successful business and she is already planning the next. Hehenga Tupouniua was studying for a Bachelor of Social Work at the Tairawhiti campus. Coming from Tonga, she found herself helping...
RESEARCHERS have identified $64 million-worth of new tourism opportunities that the region could cash in on — including a tree-top canopy walkway on Kaiti Hill and the redevelopment of Te Puia Springs. Just a month after Tourism Eastland appointed...
Four Seasons managing director Elliot Callender hopes a programme to train 56 full-time employees over the next two years will help address skills shortages in the horticulture sector and provide an ongoing benefit to the community. It will also...
A technology company with its heart in Gisborne and offices around the world putting Maori squarely in the driver seat of its business
Character Building Ltd owner Phill Claffey has the next four to six months already booked out with homes to build. It is a common scenario in the trade and construction industry at the moment, with many customers having to wait longer for work to be...
The forestry industry here and elsewhere round the country has started the New Year with a bit more optimism than it finished 2021, thanks to a small lift in log prices. In November last year the industry was said to be in “crisis” mode due to...
Businesses in Wairoa and Gisborne have been named finalists in the 2021 ExportNZ ASB Hawke's Bay Export Awards. Wairoa's NZ Mecates is a finalist for the ContainerCo Best Emerging Business Award, along with Wood Mallets (Otane), Kiwigarden...
Engineering students have only a few days to get their applications in for the 2022 Eastland Group Tertiary Engineering Scholarships. Each year, Eastland Group awards $5000 annual scholarships to several engineering students. They aim to continue...
More than $150 million was earmarked for this region through the Provincial Growth Fund last year — but for the woman at the helm of the Tairawhiti PGF office, the fund is much more than dollars and cents. Senior regional official Apryll Parat...
Tairawhiti's forestry industry is welcoming an upgrade to the New Zealand-China Free Trade Agreement. The upgrade comes into force on April 7, Minister for Trade and Export Growth Damien O'Connor confirmed last month after New Zealand and Chin...
MAYOR Meng Foon has signed a memorandum of understanding with Chinese sister city Rizhao, where he says exciting and low-cost opportunities exist for Gisborne businesses.“If anyone is keen, contact me,” he said. Mr Foon spent three days in Chin...
FROM two fish shops to a fleet of boats and a processing, live lobster storage and distribution plant, Gisborne Fisheries is a family business whose founders came to New Zealand from the volcanic Sicilian island of Stromboli. The conical island off...
GISBORNE continues to stay above the national average in retail spending. New figures released by Paymark, which processes 75 percent of all eftpos transactions, show Gisborne increased 7.4 percent from the same time last year with $46.2 million...
Investment in a portable sawmill by Hikurangi Enterprises will open doors to housing on the East Coast, the group says. Hikurangi Enterprises is one of a group of entities dedicated to regional economic development on the East Coast. Hikurangi...
Aerodrome Business Park, a new upscale industrial development alongside the airport, is expected to bring highly-skilled job opportunities to Gisborne and to boost the economy for years to come. Andrew Ashton talks to Russell Moylan, project manager...
The start of 2021 has seen an increasing number of businesses focused on business planning and improvement to build resilience and drive sustainable growth. Trust Tairawhiti and Regional Business Partner Network (RBP) business growth advisers Wendy...
NEW Eastland Community Trust chief executive Gavin Murphy says the region is in an exciting position after the trust announced a $13m rise in equity and a big rise in income. ECT’s annual report, released this week, says that over the 12-month...
BETWEEN 30 and 40 businesses a year could receive one-to-one support from expert mentors under a new government commitment to improve the Gisborne business landscape. Economic Development Minister Steven Joyce and Minister for Small Business Craig...
After a working career that has spanned 36 years, Jill Stevens is feeling philosophical as she contemplates what life in retirement might look like for her. A qualified Chartered Accountant, authorised financial adviser and associate at BDO Gisborne...