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Under the soaring glass ceilings of The Atrium in Hastings, more than 200 people gathered for the inaugural The Profit Unleashed, a celebration of talent, grit, and ingenuity thriving in Hawke’s Bay. Beyond applauding success, the evening offered candid insights, shared challenges, and a resounding belief in the power of ambition to thrive globally. From disrupting markets to creating iconic events and harnessing cutting edge technology, speakers Robyn McLean, Hamish...

Summerfruit NZ, the industry body representing over 240 growers of apricots, cherries, nectarines, peaches, and plums, has partnered with FizzyPop for their 2024/2025 summer campaign. After a competitive pitch, FizzyPop, the Hawke’s Bay-based advertising agency, secured the collaboration. “We wanted to show that sweet and tasty cherries, nectarines, peaches, apricots, and plums can provide people working through or with family...

The region’s four territorial authorities are set to take the next step in exploring a joint approach to delivering water services under the Government’s new Local Water Done Well plan. After resolving to investigate joint ownership and delivery of water services in 2019, this work was interrupted by the previous Government’s Three Waters policy, which proposed to take ownership of...

Rockit Global Limited Chair, John Loughlin announced today the appointment of Grant McBeath as its new Chief Executive Officer. Grant will succeed Mark O’Donnell who in June announced his upcoming retirement. The appointment follows a search that included international candidates for the role. John Loughlin said, “the Rockit Board is delighted with the appointment of a proven leader with a...

Located on Omahu Road Hastings, purposefully on the doorstep of Flaxmere where he grew up, local businessman Taurus Taurima’s Topline Training Academy is changing lives. While his own story is inspirational and grounded in many of the challenges faced by the rangatahi his programme has been created for, Taurus has shown that with hard work, positive influence and role models,...

Steam is rising from the boilers again at Pan Pac after a 16 month clean up at a cost of over $300 million. Fair to say it wasn’t the best way to celebrate 50 years of business. Cyclone Gabrielle struck with all its fury submerging the Whirinaki site with over 2 metres in water and more than 750,000m3 of silt....

Two local businesses with strong Māori heritage are backing Te Matau a Māui Hawke’s Bay Māori rugby team as it prepares to challenge Te Upoko o Te Ika Wellington Māori Wellington for the Sir Eruera Tihema Tirakatene Shield, the Ranfurly Shield of Māori rugby. Hastings based Geotech engineering firm RDCL and civil infrastructure firm Tūpore Infrastructure have been confirmed as lead...

One year on from an initial analysis of the impacts of Cyclone Gabrielle, a new report from Boston Consulting Group (BCG) has found the Hawke's Bay horticultural sector needs at least $410 million in additional funding to recover to its pre-cyclone state by 2030.   BCG’s report, Hawke’s Bay Horticultural Sector: Economic recovery update: a year after Cyclone Gabrielle, has found...

Divine table grapes that herald the start of a brand new industry in Hawke’s Bay have been coming off vines in Maraekakaho. It is the first harvest of Greencollar, an innovative Japanese company determined to expand the currently tiny table grape industry in New Zealand. Greencollar featured in The Profit in early 2023. The harvest follows a complex and intricate...