Business & Markets

Tauranga on airport’s radar

Tauranga Airport could be in line for an extra 11 domestic flights a week, if regional development plans between the city and Palmerston North Airport take off.... Read More

New vanilla base opens

A special partnership between the Bay of Plenty and Tonga was marked yesterday with the opening of the new Heilala Vanilla factory at Te Puna, attended by dignitaries... Read More

Motiti seafood in illegal meals

A diver from Motiti Island is accused of being the source of illegal paua and crayfish used in an illegal Facebook ready meals operation. Compliance officers from... Read More

Comvita’s ‘year of two halves’

Comvita's annual sales rose by 11.4 per cent during its last financial year, totalling $115.1 million, contributing to a slight 3.3 per cent increase in profit to... Read More

Govt boost to region's tourism

A tourism business which started in the Coromandel is to receive Government financial support for a new project to boost holidaymakers' experiences in the region. Bachcare... Read More

Sake traded on sister city visit

First benefits of the recent Tauranga City Council-sponsored trade delegation to the sister cities of Hitachi and Yantai can be sampled at Takara Japanese Restaurant... Read More

Export award finalists named

Judges of the Bay of Plenty Export NZ Awards for 2014 says they are impressed by the variety of businesses entered this year with no two companies from the same... Read More

Fired over boozy night ‘unfair'

A Mount Maunganui Fish Factory has been ordered to pay more than $8500 for unjustifiably sacking an employee who called in sick following a boozy Boxing Day. The... Read More

Tourism trade show in Bay

The largest international tourism trade event will be hosted in the Bay of Plenty in 2015. TRENZ will be at the Rotorua Energy Events Centre in May and will focus... Read More

Business confidence down

Difficulties finding staff with the right skills and cashflow issues seem to be creating a drag on what most had hoped is a recovering economy, says Tauranga Chamber... Read More

Vanilla grower extending premises

Boosting production to meet growing local demand is the reason behind Heilala Vanilla's expansion to its premises. The company was one of the first to move to Tauranga's... Read More

Couples score big from home show

Tauranga woman Jenny Hillis dreamed she was going to win a new kitchen, even down to the granite bench top - which she imagined as a large block of concrete on the... Read More