Business & Markets

Iwi blocking harbour entrance

Iwi blockades are in place at the Tauranga Harbour Entrance to stop commercial shipping traffic leaving the Port of Tauranga. A flotilla of small boats is positioned... Read More

Maori Kiwifruit Forum an industry first

The Maori Kiwifruit Growers Forum has been officially launched in Tauranga, representing a first for the kiwifruit industry. The forum has been created to advocate... Read More

Zespri CEO takes home top prize

Zespri chief executive Lain Jager has been revealed as the winner of the 2017 Ravensdown Agricultural Communicator of the Year. The announcement was made at a dinner... Read More

Katikati’s dental company to move

American owners of the former Triodent manufacturing plant in Katikati are proposing to close it down and move manufacturing to Sarasota in Florida, USA. If the... Read More

New look for Tourism Bay of Plenty

Tourism Bay of Plenty is unveiling a new look. The new orange logo is a bi-product of extensive stakeholder engagement and consultation the organisation undertook... Read More

The ‘coolest’ jobs in the industry

Steven Tomsen and Patrick Hawkins can claim - without fear of dispute - that they have the 'coolest' jobs in the kiwifruit industry. For 22 years Patrick and Steven... Read More

Solving suburban issues study

Tauranga City Council is being asked to spend $350,000 investigating planning issues arising in Welcome Bay and Ohauiti. These suburbs were planned in the 1990s,... Read More

Prospecting upsets locals

Prospecting operations on Mt Karangahake began this week, despite strong opposition from the Karangahake community. Locals out bushwalking in the Karangahake... Read More

Foodstuffs ditch microbeads from shelves

New World, Pak'N'Save and Four Square have announced that they will be microbead free from July 1 - a whole year ahead before the compulsory ban is enforced. The... Read More

ATM masquerades as phone box

A bright red 1938 telephone box has been transformed into a money machine and installed in Tairua's main street this week in what is likely to be the most unusual... Read More

Zespri’s China sales strategy ‘thriving’

Kiwifruit marketing giant Zespri won the supreme China Business Award and Exporter of the Year at the HSBC New Zealand-China Trade Association business awards on... Read More

Rotorua economy continues to perform

This year looks set to be another good one for the Rotorua district, according to the latest Infometrics quarterly economic report. The just-released report for... Read More