Successful businesses mean successful communities
Successful businesses mean successful
communities
Organisers of the Hauraki Coromandel
Business Awards are thrilled with the enthusiasm they’re
seeing around their first event.
The awards are being organised by a committee of local businesspeople, with financial support from the Hauraki and Thames-Coromandel district councils.
Local businesses have also got behind the awards, including Smart Environmental, which has bought the naming rights to the event, Positive Paeroa, Hikaka Investigations, BNZ, Mightway, Oceana Gold, Lynch & Partners, Placemakers Whitianga, Unichem Heather Moore Pharmacy, and Richardsons Real Estate.
“We were keen to get the awards off the ground because successful businesses mean successful communities," says Committee spokesperson Kate Rigg, who’s GM of MediaWorks Coromandel.
"These awards allow local businesses to tell their stories and to celebrate their successes," she says.
The People’s Choice Nominees have already been announced: Carson's Bookshop, Coromandel Adventures, Flowers on Pollen, Hahei Holiday Resort, Hello Friday, Lifestyle Yachts, MAKAWE Hair Salon, Make Your Day Events, Milly's Educare, Paeroa and Waihi Laundromats, Pamper Me, Seagull Centre, Tairua Butchery, The Green Grocer, The Lost Spring, Trove Pauanui, and Waiomu Beach Cafe.
The winner will be decided by a public vote, which is underway now until September 20. Biographies of the nominees are on the awards’ website here where you can also vote for your favourite. The winner will announced on September 28 at the awards’ gala evening.
“There’s been really steady voting for the People’s Choice nominees. The businesses are delighted to get this public recognition for their hard work, and they’ve all been busy on Facebook reminding their customers to vote," says Ms Rigg.
Pharmacist Heather Moore, owner of Unichem Heather Moore, is sponsoring the People’s Choice award.
“There are so many great businesses in our region where owners really deserve acknowledgment. Owning a business takes hard work, energy, and the ability to live with risk and uncertainty, while at the same time providing top of the range product and service," she says.
Meanwhile, businesses who’ve submitted entries to the other categories will need to sit tight until finalists are announced on September 1. Those entries are being handled independently by judges from Waikato Innovation Park.
All the results will be announced at a gala awards evening at The Grand Mercure Puka Park Resort in Pauanui on Thursday, September 28. Tickets are available on the Hauraki Coromandel Business Awards’ website, and all the latest news and developments are on their Facebook page here.
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