The absence of Rhythm and Vines is hitting accommodation providers and retailers in the pocket, with one major electronic payment processor recording a big drop in spending. Data from Worldline (formerly Paymark), which processes credit and debit...
New legislation introduced to Parliament last week will support growth and assist businesses on the road to economic recovery, Revenue Minister Stuart Nash says.“The Taxation (Annual Rates for 2020-21, Feasibility Expenditure, and Remedial...
GISBORNE food-lovers are being urged to support local establishments, after new statistics reveal visitors are favouring bottle stores and supermarkets over the town’s bars and bistros. Latest regional tourism estimates, provided by the Ministry of...
Each year New Zealand employees can get 11 public holidays. Depending on our normal days of work, we could be entitled to be paid for this. I can say that 11 times a year we receive calls from employers trying to work their way through calculating...
Fifty-one businesses surveyed, 14 key questions, a 43-page report and four to-do lists . . . Activate Tairawhiti and Gisborne Chamber of Commerce have tested the pulse of business, and views on key issues for firms and the district. The Business...
Three years from conception, Gisborne's new business park is now fully sold out and has a major national company waiting to set up shop there. Aerodrome Business Park at Aerodrome Road is an 18.5-hectare industrial development consisting of 28...
GISBORNE'S tourism industry is on course for a bumper year. New figures show tourists have already spent nearly $7 million more than they did by this time last year. The latest Monthly Regional Tourism Estimates released by the Ministry of Business...
A Gisborne concrete contractor is turning heads, after investing in a new high-tech piece of kit. Ritchie Civil director Derek Watson said when the company turned up to a concreting job with a new concrete laser screeding machine, cars stopped to...
BETWEEN 50 and 60 new jobs will be created with the sale of Prime Sawmill to New Zealand-owned Far East Sawmills this week. A joint announcement by Activate Tairawhiti and Eastland Community Trust says jobs at the Matawhero site, which has been empty...
FOLLOWING yesterday’s launch of the Government’s new Tairawhiti Economic Action Plan that commits $7.3 million of government investment into economic growth programmes here, Economic Development Minister Simon Bridges says there is still “more...
FOLLOWING its amalgamation into Eastland Community Trust earlier this year, Activate Tairawhiti has appointed its first general manager for tourism. ECT chief executive Gavin Murphy confirmed former Waimata Valley pupil, Adam Hughes, would take up...
Now that New Zealand's borders are reopening, more businesses are again considering employing migrant workers. Jenny Currie's People Plus focuses on employment — recruitment, immigration and human resources (HR).She founded People Plus three years...
A surfing friend’s account of the amount of plastic detritus he encountered in the sea around the Galapagos Islands helped set Gisborne couple Mick Williams and Anna Proctor on a bamboo products business path. That path began with the creation of...
A former Gisborne woman is returning to New Zealand to expand access to advocacy for victims of financial fraud. SR Group managing director Susie Barnett founded the company over a decade ago in Australia, where she and her team have been helping...
THE regional representative of a government-backed incubator firm says the region’s business landscape is growing but urges firms not to expect too much too soon. Speaking ahead of her appearance in the Eastland Group Speaker Series, The Icehouse...
Building work will resume on 11 Kainga Ora homes in Gisborne when the country moves to Alert Level 2 tomorrow. These homes are part of two developments under construction in Gisborne. Public housing provider Kainga Ora (formerly Housing NZ) will also...
The aviation industry has long held a place in the heart of Trish Riki but as pastoral care/manaaki support for the Tairawhiti Economic Support Package's Redeployment Programme she has found something else that makes her heart soar. Trish was an Air...
You might have heard of “the Great Resignation” — a global phenomenon seeing record numbers of people leaving their jobs in the wake of Covid-19. This soon morphed into “the Great Reshuffle” — where, after the lockdowns were lifted and...
AS farmers start to eye the commercial property market here, a Gisborne real estate agent believes Gisborne’s already active market could see further activity in the wake of Britain’s exit from the European Union and growing overseas interest in...
HOW many of your employment agreements have a standard clause “your performance will be reviewed annually?”That would be nearly 100% of the ones I see. Yet who checks that you have done what your agreements say you will do?Most of the people we...
Tairawhiti hosted the 58th Business and Professional Women New Zealand conference last month, with a theme of Kotahitanga — working together, supporting each other. Held from May 13-15 at Campion College, it included a formal dinner and awards...
THE annual tourism spend in Gisborne has gone up 6 percent, according to the latest monthly regional tourism estimates released by the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment. December’s tourism spend was up 20 percent from last December...
New funding for wood processing facilities here is expected to create more work for Gisborne businesses outside the wood industry. A regional support package for Tairawhiti was yesterday announced by the Government, along with a $12.1 million loan...
With local body elections nearly upon us, this is a good time to consider what are the issues the council influences or you face when running your business in Gisborne. Importantly, do decisions made by Gisborne District Council affect your business...
THE region’s teachers will advance their reputation as being among the nation’s most digitally literate, thanks to a new million-dollar funding commitment to The Mind Lab Gisborne. Since it opened here three years ago, more than 170 teachers have...
Gisborne's top businesses will battle it out tonight at the Westpac Tairawhiti Business Excellence Awards 2021. The awards gala dinner is at Farmers Air Showgrounds Event Centre, when seven category winners will be crowned, along with a supreme...
GISBORNE people are in spend mode and they are increasingly using their plastic cards to pay instead of cash. Paymark, which manages 75 percent of all EFTPOS transactions, analysed the shopping of people who pay through EFTPOS machines. The Gisborne...
A week out from the Westpac Tairawhiti Business Excellence Awards 2021, the list of finalists has been revealed. The awards gala dinner takes place on June 18 at Farmers Air Showgrounds Event Centre, when seven category winners will be crowned along...
Winemakers and grape growers enjoyed the company of a master wine taster, here to try the region's wines and meet some of the producers.“I decided along with my wife to visit every wine region in New Zealand and to talk to as many people as...
As an employer, it pays to be familiar with the different obligations you have to employees and to contractors — and the potential costs of getting this wrong. An employee is someone employed on a “contract of service” (more commonly called an...
Optimism in the air as multi-million-dollar investment in plant means more jobs
Gisborne District Council, the regional economic development agency and local businesses need to work together to “write a new story” to recover from the economic impacts of Covid-19, New Zealand Chambers of Commerce director Michael Barnett...
A supplier diversity intermediary is helping Tairāwhiti’s Māori and Pasifika businesses to get contract opportunities. Amotai (originally named He Waka Eke Noa) was officially established in 2018 by two wahine, Anna-Jane Edwards and Tani...