The grape harvest for the 2023 vintage is nearing its end and Gisborne Winegrowers chairman Mark Thompson says the outcome is better than expected. Talking on Thursday, Mr Thompson estimated that up to 96 percent of the Gisborne crop had been...
Gisborne Domino’s franchisee Dan Tan was awarded a coveted Leadership Eagle at the company’s annual awards ceremony this month. Domino’s Leadership Eagle award celebrates those within the company who consistently demonstrate outstanding...
A Great opportunity: Ernslaw One harvest and logistics manager Buck Trafford has been accepted into Stanford’s Executive Leadership Development programme. Picture by Rebecca Grunwell Te Karaka’s Buck Trafford is swapping forestry work for some...
Jannine O’Meara Business owners must ensure they are prepared for the recently announced minimum wage increase, which will come into effect on April 1, 2023. The current adult minimum wage of $21.20 will increase to $22.70. This $1.50 hourly...
Belinda Mackay is president of the Gisborne Tairāwhiti Chamber of Commerce A few weeks ago, when I heard that the only way out of Gisborne was going to be a convoy at 9am the next day through the Waioeka Gorge, I thought, “It’s all too hard”...
A few weeks ago, when I heard that the only way out of Gisborne was going to be a convoy at 9am the next day through the Waioeka Gorge, I thought, “It’s all too hard”. I’m sure that I’m not the only one feeling that way at the moment. I...
Caption Life in contemporary New Zealand society is more demanding than ever says the man behind “First Steps”, Michael Barnett. First Steps is a free, online, self-directed resource hub which provides mental health and wellbeing support for the...
Tairāwhiti Startup Weekend is back next month and impact house Tāiki e! is looking forward to hosting new budding entrepreneurs. Now in its fifth year, the weekend-long event helps participants learn how to shape solutions into business models...
Locals interested in exploring a career in software engineering and technology can now apply for digital technology internships in Tairwhiti. In partnership with impact house Tiki e!, the digital technology team at Arup — a billion-dollar British...
Regional economic development agency Trust Tairāwhiti has been central to cyclone-recovery efforts for businesses here. “Our first priority was standing up the Business Hub with Starlink internet to enable businesses to be able to process wages...
The purchase of Eastland Network by Firstgas Group could help New Zealand reach its carbon neutral goals by electricity and gas distribution working together, the network’s new owners say. Firstgas Group has now received Overseas Investment Office...
Six weeks on from Cyclone Gabrielle, The Herald’s Andrew Ashton digs into just how much damage has been done to the region’s economy and how much it will take to recover . . . Businesses and rural sector enterprises have been paid out almost $9...
East Coast Rural Support Trust's appoints new cyclone-response coordinator for the region
‘This will make a huge difference in helping people and business recover’
The first kiwifruit of the season leave Gisborne by sea early next week on board the freighter C.S. Trust that went to anchor in Tūranganui-a-Kiwa/Poverty Bay yesterday. It is the first of eight scheduled kiwifruit shipments from here this season —...
Activate Tairawhiti is looking to introduce the region’s first co-working centre, Launch! — and the idea of working in a shared, vibrant, tech-driven space seems to have hit a chord with local entrepreneurs. Initial interest in the concept has...
Starting a new business venture can be both an exhilarating as well as stressful time for many entrepreneurial Kiwis. The brave decision to “dip one’s toes” into the world of business should never be taken lightly. It requires everything from...
GISBORNE is one of the regions expected to stagnate or decline over the next three decades, according to a report from the Maxim Institute. The report, Growing Beyond Growth: Rethinking the Goals of Regional Development in New Zealand, by researcher...
Recently I have been thinking about the role of the Gisborne Chamber of Commerce in our region. There are a lot of excellent businesses in our community where people are head down, getting on with business. The local economy is in a good...
The holiday season is only just around the corner, so here is a quick reminder around how, which, and when, to pay those problematic Public Holidays. If you are lucky enough to have a complete shutdown over the December and January holiday period...
GISBORNE District Council has been awarded the prestigious 2015 ALGIM Excellence in Innovation award for developing a smart financial management system called Financial Business Intelligence (FBI).Gisborne had two projects nominated in the final...
New Zealand's infrastructure industry is booming but a shortfall of around 44,000 skilled workers in the next five years could have it come to a grinding halt. Roads need replacing, leaky water pipes need upgrading, power lines need maintaining and...
GISBORNE District Council, Wairoa District Council and Eastland Group all make use of either interns or student cadets, and all agree those programmes provide a win-win situation — and in one case, it has already provided a stepping stone to the...
Tairāwhiti-based medicinal cannabis company Rua Bioscience has signed an agreement with European distributor Motagon to become its preferred Australia/New Zealand supplier of medicinal cannabis products. Rua Bioscience chief executive Rob Mitchell...
Implementing a series of management principles made famous by the Toyota Motor Company has helped turn an East Coast business into a “lean logging machine”.Since Stubbs Contractors overhauled its traditional business model for a new approach...
NEW lending restrictions for investors could be having an impact on home values here, with new statistics showing the average price of a house in Gisborne rising almost 5 percent to $246,757. The latest QV house price index shows the average value of...
The chamber is involved in a project that has the potential to bring significant benefit to our region via the horticulture sector — a feasibility study around re-useable water (wastewater).To date there have been many meetings and much research...
GISBORNE-born and bred John Shaskey will be remembered as a natural businessman who played a significant role in the New Zealand dairy industry over his lifetime. Mr Shaskey died last week at the age of 60 after a lengthy illness.“John did very...
A STRING of attractions — bull sales, wrestling, Scottish dancing and dog agility events — last month seems to have done more for accommodation providers in Gisborne than All Blacks test matches did for counterparts in Wellington, Auckland and...
Hikurangi Cannabis Company, a medical cannabis venture based in Ruatoria, has signed a Letter of Intent with Seattle-based Rhizo Sciences to produce 3000kg of pharmaceutical grade cannabis products next year, rising to 12,000kg by 2021. The...
Tourism is New Zealand’s largest export in terms of foreign exchange earnings and employs 7.5 percent of the country’s workforce. This highlights a very real opportunity for Maori tourism operators, and for our community to build on and grow our...
The Tairāwhiti economy remains “constrained” due to a range of challenging conditions, according to the latest Infometrics Quarterly Economic Monitor. Provisional estimates show a 1.4 percent fall for the September 2022 quarter compared to last...
The flow of shipping through Eastland Port looks solid for the rest of January with six log ships and a freighter to take the second squash shipment of the season, due. The port shipping schedule indicates the logger African Lark comes first. The ship...
COMMUNITY-OWNED specialist infrastructure company Eastland Group is back on record-breaking form, and plans to invest more than $120 million into infrastructure across the region, over the next five years. Eastland Group, which owns Eastland Port...