Master Builders’ National Winners
Three Canterbury builders won top honours in the 2023 Registered Master Builders House of the Year national awards in late November. A home in Fendalton was judged Supreme House of the Year over $1 million and won the New Home over $4 million category. Greenland Homes took out the award the best new […]
Summer sunscreen savvy
Every year, 80,000 New Zealanders are diagnosed with skin cancer; the highest incidence in the world. What’s worse, our ‘she’ll be right’ attitude makes this fact unsurprising. Just last year, a new law was introduced, cracking down on the criteria that sunscreens need to meet, to be sold to the public. This means […]
Health & happiness: Christchurch City Mayor, Phil Mauger
Christmas is just around the corner. Can you believe it! Every year seems to disappear quicker than the last. As 2023 draws to a close, I can’t help but reflect that there is so much we can be proud of as a city. I was chuffed to see the figures from ChristchurchNZ which […]
Mining essential: Straterra Inc Chief Executive, Josie Vidal
The new Government needs to understand the role of mined minerals, including coal, as it picks up the renewable energy mantle. There will be no energy transition without minerals and we make that clear in our submission on Measures for transition to an expanded and highly renewable electricity system. We fully support the […]
Economic ambition, CEO ChristchurchNZ, Alison Adams
A future that is good for people and planet drove our work on the Christchurch Economic Ambition, which sets out a long-term goal for Ōtautahi Christchurch to move towards being a regenerative economy. We currently live in an economy where most growth is powered by burning fossil fuels – a reasonably cheap, accessible […]
Bringing you quality appliances for four generations: Dr Markus Miele
Forever Better, known in German as Immer Besser, is a philosophy that drives Miele and the two founding families to this day. As passionate about the brand as his great grandfather Carl Miele was, Markus Miele, Executive Director and Co-Proprietor of the brand, feels a glowing sense of pride every time he sees […]
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