The forestry industry here and elsewhere round the country has started the New Year with a bit more optimism than it finished 2021, thanks to a small lift in lo...
Medicinal cannabis company Rua Bioscience has named East Coast Cannabis Company (E3C) as its first local cultivation partner.
The E3C team was formally welcome...
The absence of Rhythm and Vines is hitting accommodation providers and retailers in the pocket, with one major electronic payment processor recording a big drop...
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 ...
A proposed deal to purchase Zalm Therapeutics Limited provides Tairawhiti-based Rua Bioscience
with a “great opportunity”, Rua chief executive Rob Mitchell says...
A supplier diversity intermediary is helping Tairāwhiti’s Māori and Pasifika businesses to get contract opportunities.
Amotai (originally named He Waka Eke Noa)...
While the region’s business leaders are urging the Government to go further in tackling the climate crisis, a new survey suggests half of our businesspeople hav...
Tairāwhiti-based Rua Bioscience intends to buy a fellow medicinal cannabis company for $10m.
NZX-listed Rua entered into an agreement to acquire 100 percent of ...
Gisborne's only beachfront restaurant and bar and a separate ground floor kiosk will form part of the new Midway Surf Rescue Community Hub under construction
A...
Engineering students have only a few days to get their applications in for the 2022 Eastland Group Tertiary Engineering Scholarships.
Each year, Eastland Group ...
The introduction of mandatory Covid-19 vaccinations for workers at businesses that will require vaccine certificates for entry has been welcomed by the Gisborn...
Gisborne winemakers are toasting a free trade agreement between the United Kingdom and New Zealand that also paves the way for Māori trade gains.
When the deal ...
Gisborne grapes are again the toast of the town.
The Top 50 wines in the New World Wine Awards have been named and they include three with Gisborne roots, as we...
Tairawhiti-based Rua Bioscience has the go-ahead from Medsafe to manufacture its first medicinal cannabis product, a cannabinoid (CBD) oil.
The company received...
A product invented in Gisborne intended to replace traditional steel rebar (reinforcing bar) is now also being manufactured in Saudi Arabia in a joint venture t...
With Gisborne bereft of cruise ship and Rhythm and Vines festival visitors, credit and debit card spending over the new year fell more than $300,000.
Gisborne h...
Police have been busy over the festive season visiting businesses in Gisborne, up the East Coast and at Mahia and down to Raupunga, as part of their work to kee...
As the world stumbles towards a Covid-19 recovery, experts warn of a surge of voluntary employee departures, dubbed the “Great Resignation”. To counteract the i...
THE stars aligned for returning Gisborne couple Ellyce and Alan Hemmings who decided to start up their own engineering firm in the middle of Gisborne’s construc...
Despite constraints, Māori businesses have strategically navigated their way through the pandemic, the 2021 BDO Māori Business Sector Report showed.
BDO Gisborn...
The first ever Tairawhiti Women in Business Night was a success with all spaces taken and plans for further networking events.
The networking event held on Nove...
Gisborne's Mayor Rehette Stoltz is imploring locals to support local in the wake of the postponement of the Rhythm and Vines festival for 2021.
R&V has been pos...
Turanga Health has been working closely with workplaces in the district to give staff the chance to get their Covid-19 vaccination.
The Turanga Health team were...
Tairawhiti businesses looking to reduce their carbon footprint are invited to attend a free online Climate Action Workshop tomorrow.
Trust Tairāwhiti is partne...
No First Light Wine and Food Festival.
No Longline Classic music festival.
No wonder it was notably quieter in the city than the usual annual Labour Weekend bu...
Gisborne roading networks have been split into four regions to encourage more local businesses to bid on district council maintenance contracts.
Gisborne Distri...
After launching on the New Zealand stock exchange, Gisborne-based medicinal cannabis company Rua Bioscience is still 20 percent owned by people in Tairawhiti, s...
Gisborne's economy is still in good stead, two new economic reports show.
The latest ASB Regional Economic Scorecard shows rising value in most major indicators...
One of the hottest topics in employment relations right now is “can an employer require all of their employees to be vaccinated against Covid-19”.
While the ans...
Do you often feel like you are juggling all facets of your daily life? While you are pouring your heart, mind and soul into the running of your business, it can...