Tuggerah based construction company, North Construction & Building has been named Large Commercial Construction Business of the Year – Annual Turnover over $50m at Master Builders Australia’s 2023 National Business Excellence Awards last month. The National Business Excellence Awards celebrates outstanding achievements in financial management, business operations, customer service, innovation, business improvement and resilience initiatives, and corporate social responsibilit...

South Korea’s National Pension Service has placed its 50 per cent interest in Erina Fair shopping centre on the market through agents CBRE. Along with SKNPS Erina Fair is co-owned by Lend Lease’s Australian Prime Property Fund having acquired its interest around ten years ago from GPT Group when the centre was worth about $800 million. Erina Fair is one of the largest regional shopping centres in Australia being rated #21 out of ninety-one Big Gun shopping centres with a Gross L...

It is well known that the Central Coast is not generating enough jobs to support the growing population, and this has been the case for over forty years. Businesses in Sydney and elsewhere eye the region as an ideal location to operate from thereby creating employment opportunities. To create a better lifestyle for the people of the region, business and investors need to be encouraged to locate their operations here thereby growing the regional economy. However, in recent years it has beco...

Our front cover story for this month is a report on one of the Central Coast’s oldest manufacturers, the Chamberlain Group, and their confidence in investing $28 million in a new facility at Somersby in conjunction with the Central Coast’s largest manufacturer and property owner the Borg Group. Chamberlain is a textbook case in the future of manufacturing in Australia and on the Central Coast.   A global manufacturing giant, they acquired local manufacturer Grifco in 20...