New Ziwi pet food factory coming to Napier, 125 new jobs once complete
Pet food company Ziwi is set to build a new $70 million factory in Napier which will employ 125 workers once open. The 12,000sq m state-of-the-art production kitchen will be capable of doubling the company’s current kitchen output in Tauranga. Based in Awatoto, the factory will be fitted out with the latest processing technology, including […]
Capturing Award Winning Success
They started out with an office in their kids’ rumpus room at their home in Clive in 2015, now Nicky and Kane Grundy have a Chamber of Commerce Business Awards trophy in their high-profile space at the Tech Collective in Ahuriri. The entrepreneurs, who have always owned their own businesses, have ticked off numerous goals […]
Covid19 coronavirus: Hawke’s Bay business creates app to help with Covid-19 contact tracing
Hawke’s Bay based software company Webfox has created an app to help with Covid-19 contact tracing. The app is called Covid-19 Register and it allows people to check-in to a business or venue with their cellphones instead of using a provided pen and paper. The idea came after Webfox Director and Developer James Simmonds and […]
Wairoa getting up to $6.1m to rebuild heart of CBD
The Government’s Provincial Growth Fund (PGF) is investing up to $6.1 million to revitalise business and tourism opportunities in Wairoa, Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Regional Economic Development Fletcher Tabuteau announced today. The PGF is funding: up to $4.8 million for the Wairoa Integrated Business and Tourism Facility, up to $960,000 for the Wairoa Digital Employment Programme […]
New sector development group Hi-Tech Hawke’s Bay supports regional technology capability
Helping local businesses to go further, faster, is the aim of a new technology focused sector development group, Hi-Tech Hawke’s Bay. Business Hawke’s Bay with the support of leading local technology entrepreneurs, EIT and some of the region’s largest companies, established Hi-Tech Hawke’s Bay to connect technology specialists across all sectors and work to: attract, […]
Rocket Lab expanding its Mahia complex for more frequent launches
Rocket Lab will build a second launch pad at its Mahia complex. The new pad will allow for more frequent launches of its Electron rockets and the announcement comes shortly after it opened a pad at a new launch complex in Virginia in the United States. The new Mahia pad will mean that 15 more […]