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Honey wine, mead in sweet spot

Family business Mead A’mour has invested about $100,000 to rebrand and expand its existing business of making wine and mead using East Coast honey. The company was formed by Dennis and Kerry Greeks in August last year when Alchemy Beverages...

Licence to Work gained

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...

Testing ideas for businesses

Businesses will tomorrow have the opportunity to discuss whether or not Silicon Valley-style business clusters could work here. Trust Tairawhiti is sponsoring three free workshops in August and September to help businesses move forward post...

‘Giving hope and a job for our young people’

ManaiaSAFE Forestry School was hit hard by the economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic as it had just scaled up from one training crew to three. Managing director Henry Koia said when lockdown hit, the company was forced to shut down two of its...

Commercial building boom in Gisborne

GISBORNE’S building industry is booming, with business owners spending on new buildings and renovating existing premises, but one commercial property owner fears issues with earthquake-prone buildings is the real reason behind the changing face of...

Women’s Affairs minister to speak at Gisborne's BPW dinner

Ways to solve the gender pay gap will be on the menu at Gisborne's The Vines restaurant next week. Gisborne Business and Professional Women's Club (BPW) is hosting Cabinet Minister Jan Tinetti at its August dinner meeting. Ms Tinetti is the Minister...

Workplace technology roadshow for Gisborne

NEW technology being used in Gisborne businesses will be on display this week as part of an effort to ensure the region can get ahead when it comes to using technology in the workplace. In association with Activate Tairawhiti, Callaghan Innovation...

Free cannabis product scheme capped at 30

Most people here wanting to use Rua Bioscience's new medicinal cannabis product are likely to have to pay full price as a regional subsidy scheme has been capped at just 30 people. Gisborne company Rua Bioscience announced in April it had started...

ECT's $50,000 for economic development

Eastland Community Trust has approved a $50,000 grant to Activate Tairawhiti to help local businesses grow. The grant will enable Activate Tairawhiti to support worthy economic development initiatives across the region. The money will be allocated...

‘Self-belief and hard mahi’ pays off

Te Araroa and East Cape Road are special, sacred places for local people and the thousands of tourists who visit every year. For Manaia Ngata, although he left Te Araroa to go to school in Gisborne when he was young, it’s where home is. The...

Govt initiative supporting 10 apprentices here

A total of $400,000 has been invested into boosting the number of people taking up apprenticeships here via the Regional Apprenticeships Initiative (RAI).This figure and the 10 apprentices it is supporting has been confirmed by the Provincial...

Back home to open career doors in IT

The biggest thing when it comes to your career is to believe you can do it, says IT businessman Phil Kupenga. Mr Kupenga describes himself as a Maori boy who grew up in Gisborne and never thought technology was a career option for him. He now owns an...

Focus on tourism sector

Development of the region’s tourism sector is a key focus in the Tairawhiti Economic Action Plan (TEAP), and that effort received a boost from announcements alongside the Government’s recent launch of the $1 billion-a-year Provincial Growth...

Can't beat property prices and Gisborne lifestyle

KRIS Taylor had never even visited Gisborne before he decided to move here from Auckland with his wife, baby daughter and parents. That was six weeks ago, and one word sums up their experience since then: “Fantastic.”“It’s more than we could...

Stroke Tairāwhiti ‘yes’ to merger

The likely amalgamation of the Stroke Foundation of New Zealand (SFNZ) and Stroke Tairāwhiti Incorporated (ST) took a big step forward yesterday with local members voting unanimously in favour of the proposal at their AGM. Members were told the...

JNL’s Matawhero mill back running at full capacity

The 350 employees of Juken New Zealand are back at work after the forestry and wood processing company put safety practices in place to reopen in Level 3 Covid-19 restrictions. JNL's East Coast forests general manager Dylan Foster said with around...