The man behind the astonishing turnaround of a Wairoa-District Council-owned roading company has been praised for his “stellar leadership”.
Quality Roading and ...
A “rising tide” of investment through KiwiSaver will be “a game-changer” for Tairawhiti's manufacturing and IT sectors, says the head of KiwiSaver scheme Simpli...
Innovative New Zealand apple company Rockit Global Limited is expanding into Gisborne.
The company is planting 20 hectares of its miniature Rockit apple variety...
The East Coast will get more women in the trades if Kat Kaiwai has her way.
Around 50 female students from five schools on the Coast attended the Girls with Hi...
Gisborne's top businesses will battle it out tonight at the Westpac Tairawhiti Business Excellence Awards 2021.
The awards gala dinner is at Farmers Air Showgro...
Gisborne exporters have been urged to consider the importance of playing it smart digitally in the post-Covid era.
Dr Antje Fiedler and Dr Benjamin Fath from Th...
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....
On May 7, 2021 the Government announced that it will be delivering on its pre-election commitment to implement Fair Pay Agreement (“FPA”) legislation. It is exp...
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 f...
Focusing on what is put in the soil can help improve the quality of the plants, animals and environment, Respond founder Dugald Hamilton says.
Mr Hamilton pres...
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...
Three years from conception, Gisborne's new business park is now fully sold out and has a major national company waiting to set up shop there.
Aerodrome Busines...
Auckland-based Straker Translations will be looking to up its Gisborne presence, after the ASX-listed company raised A$20 million in new equity.
A company state...
The purchase of an $83 million geothermal plant in Kawerau will have long term benefits for the community here, Eastland Group says.
Eastland Generation will ta...
Eastland Group's generation business has bought a Kawerau geothermal power station from Ngati Tuwharetoa Geothermal Assets (NTGA) for $83 million.
Eastland Gen...
Businesses in Wairoa and Gisborne have been named finalists in the 2021 ExportNZ ASB Hawke's Bay Export Awards.
Wairoa's NZ Mecates is a finalist for the Contai...
Former Gisborne Mayor John Clarke has been appointed chairman of Trust Tairawhiti.
Having played an important part in the establishment of the trust in 1993, Mr...
Covid-19 has upended business but millions of dollars are on the table for businesses ready to “risk it for the biscuit”, says Infometrics senior economist Brad...
A lawyer and a doctor of philosophy who whakapapa back to Tairawhiti are the new board members of the region's $377 million community trust.
Wi Pere Mita and D...
Gisborne is the centre of a potential $200 million “revolution” in wood processing and New Zealand house-building after the official opening of a world-first te...
We all want to have a thriving business community. Owners want a business that is profitable and that can afford to hire and maintain staff; staff want a busine...
Employee wellbeing is about more than just physiological or psychological health — employee wellbeing extends into both happiness and job satisfaction as well. ...
A San Diego-based agritech startup with a Gisborne link has raised US$12m to take its virtual fencing platform to market in the US and Australia . . .
A g...
Businesspeople and aspiring business owners have a new way to learn about and access support available from government agencies.
Set up in August 2020, the Con...
For the first time, Maori businesses can identify themselves as such on the New Zealand Business Number register.
By registering as a Maori business, they will ...
A week out from the Westpac Tairawhiti Business Excellence Awards 2021, the list of finalists has been revealed.
The awards gala dinner takes place on June 18 a...
‘Part community facility, part television studio and entirely futuristic,’ is how Rangai founder Shannon Dowsing describes the commercial studio space and ...
Gisborne busiensses need to do better when considering workers' wellbeing, a new report shows.
In a New Zealand first, Skills Consulting Group has released a ne...
Dave Mullooly has been appointed the new chair of Gisborne Holdings Ltd.
The local businessman has been on the board for the past three-and-a-half years. He tak...
A Gisborne orchard is in the running for supreme honours after winning two gold medals in the Outstanding NZ Food Producer Awards.
Over 300 products were entere...