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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Two new directors have been appointed to the Eastland Group board. Company shareholder Trust Tairawhiti appointed Hamish Bell and Debbie Birch to the board of the Gisborne-based infrastructure, logistics and energy company.“On behalf of the...
TOURISM Eastland is meeting its key performance targets, says a six-monthly report presented to Gisborne District Council’s community development and services committee. The report for the period ended November said highlights of the period...
A PRICE Waterhouse Coopers review of Gisborne District Council’s finances has recommended the council have a more sustainable rates profile. The review will be be presented to the finance and audit committee tomorrow. The review compared the...
IN A year that includes the council elections, the completion of a regional economic development plan, progressing the Air New Zealand initiative and continuing discussions about revitalising the CBD, Gisborne Chamber of Commerce says it will be...
Trust Tairawhiti and the local Regional Business Partners (RBP) team have been on hand to offer support in what has been a difficult year for many businesses. The RBP network is funded through the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment and...
Changes to how manuka honey is defined threaten to drive some East Coast beekeepers out of business. Andrew Ashton learns how getting organised and working together — just like bees — could create new markets and ensure the long-term survival of...
The egg shelves at the district's supermarkets and other grocery outlets have been sparse as another egg shortage bites. Those involved in the egg industry said the shortages were a flow-on effect from the Government's new regulations around egg...
Local businesses can now be part of a pilot project that will not only boost the use of electrical vehicles in Tairāwhiti but also reduce vehicle emissions and help meet climate change targets. The project, launched on Friday, is being spearheaded...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
HOOT Knowles has the reputation for working more than just a little magic in his job, so it was fitting the 36-year veteran of the forestry industry walked off with two big prizes at the seventh annual Eastland Wood Council Forestry Awards last...
RESIDENTIAL property market asking prices are soaring in regional New Zealand, with Gisborne leading the way with a 19.5 percent hike from December to reach an average of $344,082. Asking prices either fell, or remained stable in Auckland...
Government's Tairawhiti Economic Support Package Redeployment Programme helping people get back into work
Gisborne’s economy is growing slightly faster than the national economy, a new report indicates. The latest Infometrics Quarterly Economic Monitor highlights that almost all regional economies continue to grow, driven by population growth and...
Despite constraints, Māori businesses have strategically navigated their way through the pandemic, the 2021 BDO Māori Business Sector Report showed. BDO Gisborne director Kylee Potae said the Māori sector report this year, the third of its kind...
In the December edition of the Business Quarterly I wrote how the region was in a good economic space, but that businesses should keep one eye on the horizon. Well who would have predicted that since then, the Covid-19 coronavirus has sent ripples...
The continuing trend towards healthy, safe food is helping to propel Gisborne-based food ingredients company Corson into the future. Armed with a new management team and dedicated product development manager, Corson plans to capitalise on the immense...
When a representative of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp rang Matt Skuse in 2003 to try to buy the rights to the Eastland Trader, Mr Skuse had a simple answer.“Hell no, I won't sell — it's going really well.”At that time the choice was simple, Mr...