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The Sun
Friday September 9, 2016
Business Business inbrief
PGG Wrightsons open The formal opening for the new PGG Wrightsons building in the Westwood retail area was held last night. The purpose-built store and office building opened for service on 18 July 2016, with the new 2705 square metre building combining two previous sites, bringing together a wide range of services in one easy-to-access location.
Seresin’s winner Seresin’s Jordan Hogg is this year’s Tonnellerie de Mercurey NZ Young Winemaker 2016. The National Final was held last month at the Marlborough Research Centre, and Jordan was announced the winner was announced at the Bragato Wine Awards dinner.
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WK top Xero firm in top of the South By Cathie Bell Xero has announced Blenheim firm WK as the Tasman winner for Accounting Partner of the Year. Regional winners were announced during the Xero New Zealand Winter Roadshow, where more than 2,000 New Zealanders attended the events across 17 locations nationwide including Tasman. The awards celebrate the success of Xero’s high achieving partners all around the country with WK demonstrating a high level of dedication, commitment and support to achieve outstanding results for their clients. WK’s Neil Sinclair says the firm has been using Xero for five years now, and it enables them to spend more time with clients on important business-building work rather than more basic compliance work. He says to be selected is hugely rewarding and pretty exciting. “We’re stoked. For the team, it’s a massive achievement. It’s a massive credit to what they’re achieved.” WK will be flown to Brisbane for Xerocon South 2016 this week, where the national Accounting Partner of the Year
WK’s Neil Sinclair with Xero’s managing director NZ Anna Curzon, left, and South Island Xero Account Manager Raewyn McConnell, with the rest of his team.
and Bookkeeping Partner of the Year will be announced at a Gala Awards Dinner, but Neil says the regional award is a great achievement in itself. “The fact we’ve picked it up for this region is good enough, the uptake in the region is really high and we know there are some really good firms in the region, so to take it out, it’s great for our team. They’re doing really good things.” Xero says the winning partners were recognised for achieving great results for their customers in Tasman. These awards
are focused on acknowledging accountants and bookkeepers who support their customers to grow, whether that’s through assisting with business development through to reducing nonproductive administration time and anything in between. The Accounting Partner of the Year recognises partners who offered the best value-added service to their clients, demonstrating the benefits using Xero and using the appropriate tools for clients. Anna Curzon, Managing Director at Xero New Zealand, says the awards are one way to recognise
the outstanding achievements by partners who offer the best service and value to clients. “We are amazed by the level of dedication, commitment and support we see from our partners and these awards help us celebrate the outstanding results achieved in the past year. “The Winter Roadshow is a time for us and our partners to connect, be inspired by guest speakers and learn at workshops. There’s no better place to acknowledge those who are accomplishing stellar results.”
Scenic Hotel Marlborough’s new staff By Cathie Bell Scenic Hotel Marlborough has a new general manager, starting in just over three weeks’ time. The chain announced previous general manager Adrian Clifton has moved to the Scenic Hotel Dunedin City and Carmel Horsley takes up the position of General Manager, Scenic Hotel Marlborough effective from the beginning of October 2016. For the past two years, Carmel has been Assistant General Manager at Scenic Hotel Tonga, where she describes her time in the Kingdom of Tonga as being one of ‘unique experiences that have been both memorable and enjoyable’.
Carmel Horsley.
With a Bachelor of Business, majoring in Tourism and Marketing, Carmel is no newcomer to the Scenic Hotel Group, having worked with the Aucklandbased sales and marketing team before moving to Queenstown and taking up a position with a local destination management
company where she gained valuable insights and experience into the conference and incentives market. This market is a very important one for Scenic Hotel Marlborough which work closely with the Marlborough Convention Centre to bring groups, events and conferences into the region for a uniquely New Zealand conferencing experience that makes the most of the region’s exceptional natural assets and world-class food and wine offerings. Carmel will be joined by two other Scenic Hotel Group staff in a new lineup for the Blenheim-based property with
Alwyn Joseph as restaurant manager and Douglas Powell as head chef. Alwyn will join Scenic Hotel Marlborough from Scenic Hotel Group’s Heartland Hotel Auckland Airport where, for the past two years he has been senior food and beverage supervisor. Before that, he worked at the Heartland Hotel Fox Glacier following completion of a Post Graduate Diploma in Hotel Management. It’s is Douglas’ second time work ing at Scenic Hotel Marlborough, having recently taken some time out to work as head chef at local winery Giesen Wines.
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