ONLY three New Zealand mills export milled redwood to US company Woodplay Playset, and one of them is Gisborne business Larsen Sawmilling. Milled redwood for the American company’s demand for wooden swing sets and play sets is a little...
Mayor issues challenge to fill void for businesss after R&V postponement
Eastland Port has joined an international port authorities' global initiative for safe and efficient movement of goods and shipping during the Covid-19 crisis. Worldwide, 56 port authorities have agreed how they will work together facilitating...
Gisborne roading networks have been split into four regions to encourage more local businesses to bid on district council maintenance contracts. Gisborne District Council's Council Roading Maintenance Contract Procurement Plan includes breaking up...
ECONOMIC development strategies for this region could find easier access to national funding and resources from now on. The Economic Development Agencies of New Zealand (EDANZ) has just formalised a partnership with professional services firm...
A membership-based health and safety company is looking to grow nationwide as well as expand its global operations, all supported from its Gisborne base. Just five years after starting up, ThinkSafe has recruited five new regional sales...
NEW cabinet minister Meka Whaitiri says she can help the region take advantage of the Government’s annual $1 billion regional development (Provincial Growth) Fund. Ms Whaitiri is the Minister of Customs, and Associate Minister of Agriculture, Local...
WHILE it is not known yet if the Budget announcement to provide an $8 million boost to the Regional Business Partner programme will further Gisborne’s Business Capability Voucher programme, Activate Tairawhiti says it has already seen the amount...
All he wanted to do was change his school subjects. Now Kaiya Hape, 17, is a fulltime saddlery apprentice at Easts Outdoor Work and Leisure — the only saddlery apprentice on the East Coast. Halfway through 2017, as a Year 11 student at Gisborne...
PLACES like Gisborne can offer accountants a fulfilling career and lifestyle advantages, says Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand president Cassandra Crowley, who was in town for the profession’s annual awards dinner. There were...
Organisers of this year's Westpac Tairawhiti Business Excellence Awards say entries so far have exceeded expectations. Trust Tairawhiti, Westpac and the organising committee for the WTBEA awards are happy to have received 20 entries already, while...
With the region's Covid-19 vaccination programme in full swing, businesses here have been requesting vaccination status from workers. Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment labour inspectorate national manager Stu Lumsden confirmed...
A funding boost for computer game developers outside of Dunedin has been welcomed here because the sector is ripe for “massive growth”.The Government has said New Zealand's game developers will receive an immediate funding boost to help support...
Te Tai Rāwhiti, Ikaroa winners of the Māori Women's Development, Māori Businesswomen Awards revealed
REGIONAL New Zealand is tempting homeseekers, and interest in cities such as Auckland and Wellington is declining, a popular website says. Realestate. co. nz spokeswoman Vanessa Taylor said there had been a 17 percent rise in demand for Gisborne-listed...
Being a Maori-owned tourism business sets Maunga Hikurangi Experience apart, says Ngati Porou Holding Company programme manager Brett Johnston. As a Maori-owned and operated tourism business, more aspects of Maoritanga can be incorporated into the...
Celebrating the achievements of First Fresh grower suppliers
SPEAKING at the chamber’s annual meeting on Wednesday, vice-president Gavin Murphy said the chamber’s management of its regional business partner role was due to end at the end of this year. He said over the past five years it had amassed “an...
TWO new directors have been appointed to the Eastland Group board of directors. Keith Sutton and Fiona Mules have been appointed to replace Nelson Cull, who stood down at Eastland Group’s annual meeting in August, and fill another seat added to the...
Over 250 secondary school students, teachers and employers from around Tairawhiti came together last month to celebrate success in attaining employability skills. Completing its third year, the Trust Tairawhiti Licence to Work programme acknowledged...
A GISBORNE woman and her business partner have reached an online milestone after they launched free podcasts to help time-strapped mums build profitable businesses alongside a great family life. Jo Foster, and mum of eight-month-old Freddy, has...
Rua Bioscience Limited (Rua) has received its narcotic licence for distribution and marketing of its first product for the German medicinal cannabis market. The Tairāwhiti-based company is the first medicinal cannabis company from New Zealand to...
Eastland Port exported just over 280,000 tonnes of logs in November despite weather delays that cost 63 hours of loading time, and 50 hours of anchor testing. The December shipping throughput looks very positive.“It's looking like the port will be...
Licence to Work facilitators got the chance to upskill at a training workshop in Gisborne. Run by Community Education Trust (COMET) Auckland youth employability director Shirley Johnson, the workshop was attended by 22 current and potential Licence...
GISBORNE woman Prue Younger has been named as the new chief executive of the Forestry Industry Contractors Association (FICA) but will continue in her role with the Eastland Wood Council in the interim. Mrs Younger has been the chief executive of the...
Eastland Port handled more than 192,000 tonnes of logs in October on board eight ships that came to call. A port spokeswoman said with 11 log ships so far booked for this month the team at ISO Limited will have a busy few weeks ahead of them.“Next...
GISBORNE employers are breaking the law if they are denying workers their entitlement to a written employment agreement.“When there is no written employment agreement, employees are vulnerable to being treated badly by their employer,” said...
'Michael (Muir) is wonderful to work with and provides regular insight and context to all areas the association operates in and I value this immensely': NPA general manager Brook Cameron
Rifle barrel makers True Flite NZ Ltd already export to several markets and are now looking to increase their domestic footprint with a move to retail and more gunsmithing. Co-owners Grant Lovelock and Anthony Walsh say that given the uncertainty...
A Gisborne realtor is upping staffing skill levels to help keep up with demand for new houses here. Data from Stats NZ show 183 houses were consented here in the 12 months ending March 2022 — the highest number recorded this century and a 67.9...
Eastland Port officials are in talks to bring coastal shipping here. Shipping giant Maersk has announced the launch of a new coastal service to New Zealand involving two dedicated container ships. Although the announced routes (Timaru, Lyttelton...
New Zealand's property market slowing down should not mean an end to investing in property, Gisborne's newest financial advice company says. Enable. me founder and managing director Hannah McQueen said for many, the ability to access leverage through...
The cart-in rate of logs to Eastland Port has now reached pre-lockdown levels again and Eastland Port and its stakeholders have made progress with reducing the shipping backlog. As of today seven log ships were anchored off Gisborne and the Bunun Ace...
AN increase in newcomers to town and more people sprucing up their houses are potential reasons behind an increase in consumer spending. Paymark, which processes more than 75 percent of electronic transactions, has supplied data showing that debit...