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Brenda Newth

Hawke's Bay

Freelance Writer at Bay Buzz

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Articles

  • 3 weeks ago | baybuzz.co.nz | Brenda Newth

    [As published in May/June BayBuzz magazine.]Hospital waiting lists are in the news, with Health Minister Simeon Brown choosing to outsource more elective surgeries to private hospitals in a bid to reduce waiting lists. How does this play out in Hawke’s Bay’s health sector? Who are the players, and what are they doing? Is outsourcing good, or does it create problems?

  • 2 months ago | baybuzz.co.nz | Brenda Newth

    [As published n March/April BayBuzz magazine.]Last year, New Zealand came top of the world’s developed countries for all the wrong reasons, recording the largest contraction of GDP. One local media outlet used the term ‘GDP-ocalypse’ to describe the 2 percent shrink in our economy that happened in 2024. Our economy has been doing it tough. Business confidence has been increasing since the middle of last year, off the back of cuts to the official cash rate.

  • Jan 22, 2025 | baybuzz.co.nz | Brenda Newth

    [As published in January/February BayBuzz magazine.]Hamish WhiteCEO, NowSolar, service and SaaSLocal telco CEO Hamish White doesn’t have just one big idea, he has three. His vision for Hawke’s Bay 50 years into the future is a region with a markedly different and much bigger economy. We’re still earning export dollars from tourism and the primary sector but have developed significant new industries that are infinitely scalable.

  • Dec 3, 2024 | baybuzz.co.nz | Brenda Newth

    [As published in November/December BayBuzz magazine.]In the previous issue of BayBuzz, we profiled non-primary produce exporters. In this article we look at two Hawke’s Bay importers, and the import business of Napier Port. David Kriel, Napier Port’s General Manager Commercial, says that Napier Port is an export-focussed port.

  • Sep 24, 2024 | baybuzz.co.nz | Brenda Newth

    [As published in September/October BayBuzz.]When you think about Hawke’s Bay exports, apples, logs, wine and meat spring to mind. But there’s a whole lot more to our exports than just primary production. In this article we meet four lesser known Hawke’s Bay and East Coast exporters, all finalists in the recent Export NZ ASB Hawke’s Bay Export Awards.

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