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Outgoing Caddie proud of Rua’s achievements

Rua Bioscience co-founder Manu Caddie has resigned from the Tairāwhiti-based medicinal cannabis company after helping set it up. Mr Caddie says his skills are in creating something where not much existed before, then supporting others who know more...

$6.1m boost for Wairoa

PGF funding for business, tourism opportunities

Maori data made more accessible

Data can help businesses understand the issues that Maori experience — and helping promote this message was the goal of Figure. NZ chief executive Ngapere Riley when she was in Tairawhiti during TechWeek 2021. Ms Riley thinks that fundamentally...

City plans good for businesses

AN URBAN development strategy centred largely on Turanganui a Kiwa-Gisborne’s coastline, the Turanganui River and the maunga Kaiti Hill has the potential to benefit businesses in this region. The council’s Urban Development Strategy, adopted late...

Jobs for Coast the ‘key goal’

Rua Bioscience committed to sustainable employment

Building a rental marketplace

Gisborne brothers Jacob and Raymond Geuze have launched www. Flax. nz, a site where everything from tools to sports equipment can be listed and rented. Describing it as the Trade Me of rentals, the idea is that you can make your belongings work for you...

Storage demand spurs three-stage expansion

Self Storage Gisborne is investing about $1.2 million to expand its Makaraka storage services by an additional 180 units over the next three years, to meet strong demand. Managing director Peter Jex-Blake says the extension of their Makaraka facility...

Business giving and fostering resilience

Recently the national Chambers of Commerce network rolled out First Steps, a website packed with resources to help business owners and managers deal with the challenges they face every day. The idea for First Steps was born during the Covid...

Trifecta success in brand awards

Three entries in an international design competition have earned Gisborne man Ben Galbraith gold, silver and bronze awards. The US-based Dieline Awards centre on brand-packaging design. The awards comprise packaging designs for food, health...

Sutton named new Eastland Group chairman

KEITH Sutton has been appointed chairman of Eastland Group Limited, Eastland Network Limited, Eastland Port Limited and Gisborne Airport Limited. ECT appointed Mr Sutton to the Eastland Group board of directors last year. He replaces Nelson Cull, who...

Seeds business expands, new facility set to open

A decade after first setting up in Gisborne, PGG Wrightson Seeds has been developing new premises to cope with increased demand from two major markets. The company has sold its Solander Street site and is in the process of moving to a new 1.5-hectare...

Biorefinery venture and food innovation strategy added to economic action plan

Two new actions have been added to the region’s recently-refreshed Tairawhiti Economic Action Plan (TEAP) to create high-value jobs here. At its August meeting, the TEAP Steering Group endorsed the preparation of a food innovation strategy for...

Lines companies, communities and future of energy

Recently the Eastland Group and Trust Tairāwhiti announced their decision to sell Eastland Network, the local lines company. It would be fair to say that it hasn’t been a popular decision, with many people concerned by such fundamental...

Gisborne business diversifies to meet demand during pandemic

Easts Outdoor Work and Leisure branches into making PVC face shields

Help to promote NZ technology to the world

Local businesses looking to raise their profile on a global scale can now bank on a national technology campaign and toolkit launched this year. As part of the campaign, Gisborne hosted a digital marketing and sales initiative called “Tech Story”...

Advice to investors: Keep feet on ground

THE New Zealand sharemarket is having “another blinder’’, Gisborne investors have been told. Mark Lister, head of private wealth research at Craigs Investment Partners, told an audience of about 100 at a Craigs’ Investor Day held yesterday...

Keen to test the UK employment market?

A New Zealand-based UK immigration specialist is in Britain at the moment on a recruitment drive, promoting thiscountry and in particular the regions as great places to work. Geoff Taylor from The Emigration Group is in the United Kingdom until the...

How to improve employee engagement in 2022

Businees Insights by Gemma Hogg