Success stories from one of New Zealand’s most profitable areas.

Manufacturing

Hawke's Bay based design studio David Trubridge will immediately pull six (Bounce, Rise, Roll, Drop, Pequod and Mānuka) of its thirteen remaining products with a high plastic content.

Waka is David Trubridge's second collaboration with Offecct, and the new creation is an inviting, open piece of seating furniture.

Sunfruit Group has opened a 12,000m2 packhouse and coolstore complex which has created 50 new jobs while other fruit growers have their eyes on Irongate.

New Zealand Frost Fans has manufactured and marketed the FrostBoss range of fans from its base in Hastings since 1995 and is in the midst of a growth spurt.

Roosters’ offering has always been about providing an approachable range of pure beers “made the Bavarian way.

The brewery moved from Onekawa to the Ballydooley Cider brewery site on Awatoto Road, Meeanee, in late 2006 and opened The Filter Room in 2007.

The school furniture manufacturer employs 160 full-time staff, and its products are sold in to over 30 countries and territories.

All category winners from the ExportNZ Hawke's Bay ASB Exporter of the Year awards received entry into NZTE's International Business Awards later this year.

In 1993 Hamish Whyte and his family became the sole owners of Furnware and company representatives began spending time in schools to further develop the range of furniture on offer.