Fruitbowl - Fresh Ideas from Hawke's Bay

We continue to receive a lot of mixed signals regarding ongoing employment factors & demands.  What can we expect to see in 2010 for the Hawke’s Bay labour market? Firstly, we need to understand the national employment market, and what trends are emerging. What has been obvious to all of us has been the impact of the global credit crunch and recession. The Department of Labour indexes ...Read more

Do you have problems with motivation?  Hastings local Shelley Hanna is pushing her dislike of running to the limit, by taking part in the New Plymouth marathon on 6 March.  “I joined the local Multi Sport Club several years ago to keep fit and take part in their duathlons and triathlons,” she says.  “But my running is lousy.  I’m always at the back.”  After failing dismally to ...Read more

Keep any eye out of the next week for your copy of The Profit – Hawke’s Bay’s only independent business magazine. The first issue has a wide range of stories including a one on one interview with the Prime Minister, an update on ultra fast fibre, an update on what’s planned to promote Hawke’s Bay to national and international tourists. The Profit is FREE to all ...Read more

The big day is finally here. Accelerate 2010 is happening today at Black Barn, and some seriously interesting people are coming from a long way away to attend what promises to be an exciting and stimulating event. Afterwards, Katchafire, one of New Zealand’s premier reggae band, is playing in the Black Barn underground cellar. There are very limited tickets, but it would be great to ...Read more

I check what’s up on fruitbowl a couple of times a day. It doesn’t take too long to just have a quick look and if there’s something worth commenting on – I’ll either do it then or later that day. I think there’s quite a few people that do the same – both in the public and private sector. What I am now finding facinating is that some people are reluctant ...Read more

Hawke’s Bay is set to get its own dedicated business magazine with the launch of The Profit. The Profit’s founder and publishing manager Damon Harvey said the magazine has been launched to tell the great success stories of Hawke’s Bay businesses and champion our businesspeople living in the region. It will also investigate issues impacting Hawke’s Bay businesses and provide insights ...Read more

This should be fun … Back Benches, New Zealand’s one and only pub politics show, hits the road and heads to the beach every week over summer. On Sunday the 24th Jan the show descends on the Gin Trap in Ahuriri, Napier. The Back Benches Summer Tour sees Wallace Chapman and guests head to the regions, starting at the birthplace of politics – and New Zealand’s first ...Read more

They always say you’ve made it when they start doing cartoons of you.  Murray Webb does an excellent Craig Foss completing his rendition of our dynamic duo. Next goal has to be a backbenchers puppets for our local members ...Read more

DOUGLAS LLOYD JENKINS, Director of the Hawke’s Bay Museum and Art Gallery as well as one of New Zealand’s most prolific architecture and design writers, has objects – a lot of them. So what interests him about all of these objects? “What they do to make people think,” says Douglas. His reliance on and fascination with them means that he surrounds himself with objects both at his ...Read more