“After a talk by Hawke’s Bay Tourism about their Hidden gems campaign, - aimed at encouraging visitors to stay that extra night by doing something more here – and an activity, or experience that perhaps they hadn’t thought of before, we thought we could do our bit to encourage visitors to stay one more night” – commented Diana who owns Havelock House in Havelock North.

So many visitors rush through the region, staying only a night or two and we really need to encourage longer staying visitors. People are looking for different experiences – what better than to use what Hawke’s Bay is already famous for its fresh food and fine wines.

Hawke’s Bay local produce from olive oils to olives, cheese and nuts, fresh fruit and vegetables will be featured in Cathie’s original recipes. Guests will go away having learnt how to make simple but sophisticated dishes from scratch with time saving tips from a top chef – Cathie.

Other countries such as Italy and Thailand have been promoting their cookery for years – we have it all here it just takes a small ‘leap of faith to put it in place’

Cathie has the cooking skills – she has been running successful cookery classes in Hawke’s Bay for the past 18 months and is so impressed by the range of fresh food here – “It’s something Hawke’s Bay people don’t always appreciate – in Canada so much of this has been lost – meaning the farmers markets to parking lots!” We have the accommodation adds Diana who opened the Havelock House B&B 3 years ago after they she arrived here from York England with her family.

Guests will stay here and go to Cathie’s for the cooking class followed by dinner paired with local wines. We are hoping to appeal to visitors who want that extra night.

“Visitors love the food and wine here” adds Cathie. “So why not teach them how to use all this fresh produce and when they go home they will impress their friends with the recipes they’ve learnt on the course – and their friends will come to Hawke’s Bay too.”

For more information contact:

Diana Arnold
Havelock House
77 Endsleigh Road
Havelock North
Hawke's Bay 4130
New Zealand
Tel 06 8775439
m. 0211523755
www.havelockhouse.co.nz

or

Cathie Hamilton
Certified Culinary Scientist
Cathie’s Cuisine
06 876 4911
www.cathiescuisine.co.nz

Former Black Caps, All Blacks and a Tall Black will converge on Havelock North on Friday 24th February for an entertaining day of cricket and fun. The list of greats includes Mark Greatbatch, Martin Crowe, Craig McMillan, Marc Ellis, Shane Thomson, Ewen Chatfield, Simon Doull, Danny Lee and Brendon Pongia.

They will be joined by competent cricketers of all ages who have bid for their place on the team.

There are Bells & Whistles tickets available, which are all inclusive in the pitch side marquee @ $175 per person. Lunch commences at 12.30pm and this ticket includes lunch, Spoon Cuisine Afternoon Tea, beverages and a ticket to the After Match.

Or come along and join us for the After Match from 6.30pm - 8.30pm @ $75 per person.

There will be general Admission tickets available on the day ($5 pp gate entry).

Come along and see some of NZ’s top sportsmen in form!

For more information www.hereworth.school.nz/2020cricket or phone 06 877 8138 to secure your tickets.

Gemco are finalists in a national competition to win a business software makeover - so they can offer a better service to their valued customers.

And with your support, they could win!

All you have to do is vote for them – the more votes the better chance they have of winning!

Go to http://www.greentreegameon.co.nz/finalists/gemco

“In 10 years time, Hawke’s Bay will be known internationally as one of the great wine producing areas of the world,” says Nicholas Buck, Chairman of HB Winegrowers Inc.

This week Craggy Range Winery, Crossroads Winery and Villa Maria all released press statements for category wins in Australasia’s biggest wine competition, the 2011 Winestate Awards.

Craggy Range was also awarded the competition’s Wine of the Year for its 2009 ‘Le Sol’ Syrah.  Crossroads achieved its win with the Vineyard Selection Kereru Road Merlot Cabernet 2009 and Villa Maria with the Reserve Malbec 2009.

But the real story is revealed when all Winestate Award categories are viewed -Hawke’s Bay took the top prize for the important red wine categories: Merlot & Blends, Shiraz / Syrah and Other Reds.

“For a competition of over 11,000 Australian and New Zealand wines, this is substantially significant.  Not only are we selling coals to Newcastle, we’re winning in terms of recognition and quality too,” says Lyn Bevin, Hawke’s Bay Winegrowers Inc. executive officer.

In the most recent issue of Wine Advocate and website eRobertParker.com, recognised as the leading independent consumers’ guides to fine wine, writer Lisa Perotti-Brown covered New Zealand.

“Hawke’s Bay is a region I noted that is doing a particularly great job at producing complex, age-worthy wines,” she states after lamenting that many New Zealand wines lacked the complexity she sought.  Lisa praised wineries producing highly individual and noteworthy Bordeaux blends and Syrah.

“Hawke’s Bay’s Chardonnays are becoming very exciting,” she added.

And in the UK, Rebecca Gibb featured Hawke’s Bay in the latest issue of Imbibe.com for leading wine trade industry professionals.  Rod Easthope of Craggy Range is quoted as saying “we are now getting to the stage where we are confident with our fruit and wine-making”.

Regardless of whether you are a Syrah fan or a Cabernet Merlot or Merlot Cabernet blend fan the accolades are there for Hawke’s Bay wines.

For further information contact:
Lyn Bevin, Executive Officer
Hawke’s Bay Winegrowers Inc.
Phone 876 3418 or 027 621 7891

Over 500 people attended the ‘must attend’ business event of the year which was hosted by highly respected broadcaster Paul Holmes.
The judges in making their decision said “Furnware’s leadership vision, commitment to a high risk business change and success nationally and internationally is a testimony to persistence, attention to detail and commitment to its market niche.

“Results are impressive through an innovative approach to product development and quality.  Because of its market dominance in New Zealand and growing reputation offshore, Furnware clearly stood out as this year’s overall winner.”

PORSE managing director Jenny Yule added another business accolade to her CV in winning the Hawke’s Bay Chamber of Commerce Business Person of the Year.
Ms Yule was a finalist in Veuve Clicquot New Zealand Business Woman Awards last year, a winner of the Her Business Most Outstanding Business Leader in 2008 and Business Woman of the Year.  In 2003
the Franchise Association of NZ awarded Jenny a National Business Leadership Award.

PORSE, New Zealand’s leading in-home childcare service, with 39.7 percent market share with over 7000 children enrolled through its 41 branch network.

The citation read out last night said “An inspirational and persuasive leader, Jenny is dedicated to her vision and mission and belief that societies benefit when babies are raised in stable home environments during the critical stages of early brain development.”

Other winners in the general categories that went on as a finalist in the supreme award including Kilt (Unison Small Business Award); Bay Tours and Charters Ltd (Barnes Mossman Small or Emerging Business Award) and Printstock Products Ltd (Newstalk ZB Medium-Large Business Award.

Past supreme award winner 3R won the Xplore Online Award, which was one of five special categories.

Other special categories winners included Martin Beveridge Ltd (Te Puni Kōkiri Māori Business Excellence Award); Napier Family Centre (EIT Not for Profit Business Award); Origin Earth Ltd (Hawke’s Bay Regional Council Business Innovation Award) and Unison Networks (Watties Workfit Healthy Workplace Award).
There were 41 finalists in the nine categories.

Te Puni Kokiri Maori Business Excellence Award
Martin Beveridge Ltd

Hawke’s Bay Regional Council Business Innovation Award
Origin Earth

EIT Not For Profit Business Award
Napier Family Centre Inc

Xplore Online Award
3R Group Ltd

Watties Workfit Healthy Workplace Award
Unison Networks Ltd

Barnes Mossman Small or Emerging Business Award
Bay Tours & Charters

Unison Small – Medium Business Award
Kilt

Newstalk ZB Medium - Large Business Award
Printstock Products Ltd

Pan Pac Large Business Award
Furnware Ltd

Hawke’s Bay Chamber of Commerce Business Person of the Year Award
Jenny Yule – PORSE in home childcare

Hawke’s Bay Today Business of the Year
Furnware Ltd

Prime Minister John Key has agreed to be the guest of honour at a breakfast to bolster funds for Plunket’s new $1.3 million dollar family centre in Onekawa. The event, on Thursday September 1st, will be held at the Napier Golf Club.

With the general election looming, the September breakfast will provide an ideal opportunity to engage with the PM and support the much-needed family centre facility.

The new Plunket centre will meet the need for a more Hawke’s Bay centralised facility that will offer a range of parenting services in addition to carseat rentals, a toy library, a child-friendly cafe and Plunket’s nurse clinics.

“With more parents working and finding it hard to access services, the new centre will be open outside work hours, have ample parking and be on the bus route,” says Plunket’s Alison Prins, who is leading the new project.

“We are thrilled that the Prime Minister has seen this project as invaluable to Hawke’s Bay families and as such is supporting it through his attendance.  All proceeds will go to the Centre.”

The breakfast is one event in Plunket’s fundraising calendar. A total of $275,000 is needed from the local community for the Centre, which has been supported so far with initiatives from such as Team Plunket, a business house fundraising challenge that ran during the month of June.  To date a total of $53,805 has been raised towards this total.

Tickets for the September 1st breakfast are $45 and available now from MP Chris Tremain’s electoral office in Napier and MP Craig Foss’s office in Hastings.

For more information please phone Hannah Giddens, Plunket Hawke’s Bay, 878 7126.

KEY POINTS

• Breakfast with John Key in support of Plunket
• Thursday 1^st September
• 7am
• Napier Golf Club, Waiohiki, Napier
• Tickets $45 each
• Available from:      MP Chris Tremain’s electoral office

96 Station Street, Napier

MP Craig Foss’s electoral office

Cnr King & Queen Streets, Hastings

When: Tuesday July 19th
Time: 0630am-0930am
Where: National Aquarium car park, Marine Parade, Napier

The action kicks off at 0630 with the first live broadcast and will continue throughout the morning until 0935. There will be 5 live crosses in total showing different Hawke’s Bay activities and events for RWC so there will be plenty of opportunity to try and get yourself on TV.

There will be prizes for the best dressed fan so we are encouraging mums, dads, kids and fans to don some face paint and their teams colours to be in to win. There will also be Rugby World Cup ticket giveaways, photo opportunities with the Webb Ellis Cup and breakfast and coffee fare for the early risers.

Tamati and the crew are travelling with a custom designed truck that opens out to a 72 square metre events centre that houses the Webb Ellis Cup and is jam packed with interactive displays and videos on Rugby World Cup history and legends.

Outside of the truck, a marquee area will preview some of Hawke’s Bay’s Real NZ Festival events and experiences that will be held during RWC. These include a real life ‘Running of the Lambs’ and ‘Mutton dressed as Lamb’ display to celebrate Central Hawke’s Bay’s Lamb Country Festival, a live cooking demo for the Signature Dish competition and Art Deco Cars and dancing plus loads more.

An important part of the Roadshow is for each host city to ‘adopt a second team’ to show how they intend to welcome their visiting teams and fans. Hawke’s Bay will adopt France so there will also be lots of French celebrations during the morning including an Eiffel Tower shaped Profiterole stack, French singers and accordion players and face painting for the kids.

RWC NZ 2011 boss Martin Snedden will also be at the Roadshow to see how Hawke’s Bay preparations are progressing so we want as many people as possible to come down and get involved.

It’s a great opportunity to show New Zealand that Hawke’s Bay is the place to be during Rugby World Cup so please come on down and get involved.

We would really appreciate it if you cold please send this out to your membership/databases. I have also attached a PDF that can be printed to A3 and displayed in shop fronts and windows.

Vicky Roebuck
Communications Manager
Hawke's Bay Tourism
Phone: +64 6 280 5465

The talk is part of the regular monthly meeting of the Landmarks History Group. He will discuss the different structures that Hawke’s Bay has had for government; some of the conflicts that Hastings and Napier have had since the 1800s, and to what extent these past events are relevant today.

Based on this, he will give his opinion as to how likely voluntary amalgamation is likely and possible reasons why.

The talk takes place at the Hastings War Memorial Library at 5.30pm–6.30pm on Tuesday, 14 June 2011. Gold coin donation on entry.

R&D is important for economic growth and for sustaining a dynamic New Zealand economy that is capable of competing successfully on the international stage. R&D is also vital in addressing a range of socio-economic issues unique to New Zealand. Research and development (R&D) can help develop new products or services that improve business competitiveness, productivity and growth.

In headline form the results look good.

• Total research and development (R&D) expenditure for 2010 was almost $2.5 billion,up 13 percent from $2.2 billion reported in 2008.
• As a percentage of gross domestic product (GDP), total research and developmentspending for 2010 was 1.30 percent, compared with 1.19 percent in 2008.

However when we look more closely there are some sector trends that may be useful for New Zealand overall, but are less satisfactory of the traditional sectors of the New Zealand economy and these traditional sectors still constitute the bulk of our exports and importantly are the bulk of Hawke’s Bay’s economy.

Primary industry R&D investment in the two years to 2010 grew 1%, however food and beverage manufacturing R&D fell 21%. In contrast metal product manufacturing was a standout sector which grew 28% or a significant $55M.

If we look at the source of funds for the 2010 R&D the business sector itself provides nearly 90% of this effort. However the government proportion in business in 2010 is down 5% on 2008 despite much rhetoric about the NZ Fast Forward project and now the Primary Industry Partnership.

It is acknowledged that government including universities provided some substantial research capacity through their various research arms although not necessarily in business itself.

The survey also provides a basis for benchmarking this R&D performance against other countries and notwithstanding the increase in attention (or noise) about R&D and the  New Zealand GDP investment at 1.3% still lags Australia at 1.97% and the average of the OECD at 2.33%.  New Zealand’s business direct R&D expenditure is 0.5 per cent of GDP. This is low compared to countries such as Australia (0.8 per cent), and Finland (2.4 percent).

Not in this report but one stand out is that Hawke’s Bay companies are very early users of the TECH NZ grants from the Ministry of Science of Innovation. Hawke’s Bay businesses clearly see R&D as giving business the edge which we  need to survive and thrive in a fast-changing and increasingly competitive marketplace. Hawke’s Bay’s most successful companies are those that invest regularly in R&D. It is a key driver of innovation, business success and economic growth.

Event: Hastings Karamu Rotary Club Annual Cocktail Party Fundraiser for the Rescue Helicopter Trust
Date: Friday 27^th May
Where: Assembly Hall, Hawke’s Bay Opera House
Price: $90 per person
Tickets: Thomson’s Suits, Grieve Diamond Jewellers, Advintage, House of Travel Havelock North, Waipukurau Amcal Pharmacy