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Brand Group expanding into Early Learning Centres
Local property developers, the Brand Group, are expanding their interests in early learning centres with work nearing completion on a new centre at Wamberal that will bring their total number of centres to four with another planned for Holgate. Currently...
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Demand for value add food products boosts Pro Ali order book
Business for North Gosford based Pro Ali Design, designer and manufacturer of conveyor systems and associated equipment for the food industry, has gone through the roof as food processing companies expand or realign production systems as a result of consumer...
| Posted in: Manufacturing news |
UON appoints Central Coast Interim Executive Dean
University of Newcastle Vice Chancellor, Professor Alex Zelinsky AO has announced the appointment of Professor Michael Bowyer who will take on the role of Interim Executive Dean (ED) Central Coast. To be formally recruited later this year, the Executive Dean...
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Welcome to a new semi-post COVID world
Its been a difficult two years. The Risk Assessors never dreamt this one up. COVID caught everyone by surprise and through our Business Plans into disarray. Businesses, all businesses, depend on a certain amount of certainty. But we are now...
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Gavin Yates – Steinbok Brands
Gavin Yates began his career in the 1990s working behind the bar by night mixing classic cocktails and with his father Norm by day manufacturing breakfast jams for the hotel and aviation sectors in their small family business, Yates Traders...
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Peter Harris – Hotel Gosford & Harris & Narvo Hotel Group
Gosford Hotel opened in 1926. In 1998 Peter Harris and his wife Jane bought the Hotel which is now undergoing a $13 million renovation which will be the ‘jewel in the crown’ of Gosford. This story is about Peter...
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Why is it so hard to get things done on the Central Coast?
But first things first! While the State Government is busy mortgaging the future to pay for this pandemic, our younger generations will be paying for it for the rest of their lives, important day to day decisions are being...
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New Zealand food co buys Sara Lee
Having recently acquired the fast-growing New Zealand family owned Original Foods Baking Co the New Zealand Investment firm, The South Island Office Limited (SIO) has announced that it has agreed to acquire iconic Australian desserts and baked goods brand Sara...
| Posted in: Manufacturing news |
Old Mardi Farm DA lodged
Its been on the cards for over twenty years but the vision of local businessman Laurie Denton to develop the Old Mardi Farm property at 414 Old Maitland Road, Mardi (west of the Expressway) could now come off following a...
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Hughes’ vision for The Quarters Forresters Beach
Well known local business couple Warren and Donna Hughes will open their new business venture at Forresters Beach in October brining a new life to the old Forresters Beach Resort. Since buying the property in March this year the couple...
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