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RBP support for business recovery and growth

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...

ECT’s equity, income climbing

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...

Mentor programme could double

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...

Fibreglass milestone

Gisborne company Pultron cracks US market

‘WORLD-CLASS’

Ministerial tick of approval for Rua Bioscience first

Jill Stevens — a career built on trust

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...

‘We need your help'

Government urged to give support as impacts of coronavirus outbreak continue to be felt in this region

QRS secures $29m in roading contracts

Wairoa-based Quality Roading and Services (QRS) has started the year by securing $29 million in contracts around Hawke’s Bay and the East Coast.“Eighteen million dollars of that amount is for work scheduled in 2019,” chief executive Nigel...

Welcome to 2021!

In the lead-up to writing this article I was thinking that 2021 had started off pretty well — Covid-19 was largely contained to managed isolation facilities, the vaccine was being rolled out for front-line workers and life in the provinces seemed...

Dance, music vision brought to life

Dancefit Studios in Gisborne is a busy family business with a focus on community. Fresh out of university 15 years ago after studying exercise science, Tessa Beattie — a little undecided about her future career but with a love of music and dance...

Robots aren’t taking our jobs, yet

Jobs, Robots and Us author Kinley Salmon visited Gisborne recently for a public discussion around perceptions about automation and alternative futures for New Zealand. Mark Peters reports. Last here many years ago for a soccer tournament and now...

Second engineered lumber plant being built

Work to build a second production line at the state-of-the-art Wood Engineering Technology (WET) mill at Matawhero is well under way. WET's second Optimised Engineered Lumber (OEL) production line was announced in June last year and chief executive...

Lean companies see huge gains

Less than a year after Gisborne businesses started implementing a series of management principles made famous by the Toyota Motor Company, designed to give the “shop floor” more stake in businesses, some are now doubling their workforce and...

Is your business ready for lift in the minimum wage?

The Government has announced that from April 1, 2020, the minimum wage will increase from $17.70 to $18.90 per hour. This will see an increase of 7.27 percent or $1.20 per hour, and will mean an extra $48 per week before tax for employees on...

TRONP enjoys strong financial performance

A GOOD return on assets and a tightening of the belt have contributed to steady gains in the financial performance of Te Runanganui o Ngati Porou over the past year. TRONPnui’s commercial arm Ngati Porou Holding Company produced a net profit of...

The farming year in review

June 30 is just around the corner and for most farmers it is time to start thinking about getting ready for year end. In this day and age, that does not have to be as daunting as it once was. I thought it timely to provide a commentary of the year...