In the latest edition of Business North, we take a look at the thriving Western Bay of Plenty region. Projects underway include Winstone Wallboards state-of-the-art plasterboard facility Tauranga’s Tauriko Business park, while Tauranga-based kiwifruit management company DMS Progrowers’ is carrying out an extensive expansion at its Te Puke site. The new Māori business network Whāriki is seeing strong growth. Whāriki started as the brainchild of a small group of Māori business owners and professionals in 2016 seeking a dedicated group in Auckland. We take a look at some of the many businesses that have now joined the network. Also in Auckland, Watercare’s Hiwa-i-te-Rangi giant tunnel boring machine (TBM) has been busy since she was launched in July –on the start of a 14.7-kilometre-long journey under Auckland to construct the $1.2b Central Interceptor wastewater tunnel. The TBM cranked into life just before the national Covid-19 lockdown and has now travelled 102.4 metres on its four-year journey. And, in the wake of Covid impacting tourist numbers, local tourism operator Carino Wildlife Cruises has switched its focus to education taking children and young people out on the water to learn about endangered wildlife in the Bay of Islands.
Businesses profiled in this edition…
Absolute Stainless
ACES
Alfresco Pools
Arc Security
Auckland Inground Pools
Barham United Welldrillers
Briscoe Group New Premises
Carino Wildlife Cruises
Corys Electrical – Auckland
COSCO Shipping Lines (New Zealand)
Culham Engineering
DCN Drilling
DMS Progrowers
Ebbett Pukekohe
EHC Orchard Management
Elio Construction
Elite Passive Fire
FD Kitchens
First Principles Architects
First Security
Focus on Property
Fulton Hogan – Whangarei
GJ Gardner Homes – Manukau
Gunac / Access NZ
Hauraki and Sons Contracting
HEB Construction
Heron Plumbing
HSM Group
IPMS
iTraffic
K’aute Pasifika Trust
Legacy Construction
Leisure Pools
Linecrest Homes
MacPherson Architecture
Marsden Cove Dental
McIndoe Construction
New Zealand Shipping Federation
Oliver Scott
Orchard Contracting and Developments
Page Macrae Engineering
Pivot Horticulture
Project Apopo
Rockhopper
Sabre Construction
Shawn Williamson Building
Stiles and Hooker
Tippett Electrical
Trevelyans Pack N Cool
TROW Group
Troy Wheeler Contracting
Vonbon Homes
Waikato Build
Watercare: Central Interceptor
Wavesong
Whariki
Winstone Wallboards