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The Sun
Friday February 17, 2017
Business inbrief
Mitre 10 building for sale The Mitre 10 building in Alabama Road is up for sale. The 9986sqm building, built in 2007 on an 18,608sqm site, has five years remaining on a 15 year lease, with three rights of renewal of five years, with final expiry in November 2037. It is being sold by JLL, Jones Lang LaSalle.
Wool store shift Children’s store Cherubs is now offering the Woolmart range of wool and knitting patterns after owner Lynda Butt took over the franchise from Sandy James, whose Queen Street store was moved out of the CBD when the building next door was demolished after the November earthquake.
Businesswoman talk Zonta Marlborough is hosting peony skincare producer Dove River Peonies co-owner Dot Kettle at a breakfast event on March 5. Dot was chief executive of the Nelson Tasman Chamber of Commerce until the end of last year and is a successful business woman.
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Brian Dawson is the new manager of the Blenheim branch of the Co-operative Bank.
Banking on a new job
By Cathie Bell Marlborough District Councillor Brian Dawson has been appointed the new head of the Co-operative Bank’s Blenheim branch. He started at the bank on Wednesday and says he is excited by the opportunity.
Brian moved to Blenheim 13 years ago for a job in banking, and is very familiar with the industry. More recently, he and wife Trish have run an education and training company Gist, which Trish continues to operate in Marlborough
and Nelson. The Co-operative Bank, located in Queen Street, is a mutually owned New Zealand bank, which Brian says he is ‘very proud’ to be joining as the bank is owned by Kiwis and returns profits to its members.
New bottling line cranks up By Cathie Bell Marlborough’s newest contract bottling line is up and running. Director Matt Elrick says The Bottling Company ran its first bottles through the machines last week in a testing phase to get everything in place, and it has started bottling wine for customers this week. The first run was a cleanskin bottling for a client keen to empty tanks in preparation for the vintage. “Last week went remarkably smoothly,” Matt says. The bottling line is largely automated, and pumps straight from tankers, which cuts down the risk of damage to the wine, he says. The Bottling Company is doing single shifts at the moment, but is looking at putting on some night shift shortly. “We need to get ready for the pressure of vintage. We want to be there to help.” The main contract bottlers in town is Wineworks, with some wineries still operating their own bottling lines as well. Matt says there is space in the market
Matt Elrick and Stefan Newman of The Bottling Company, a new contract bottler.
for their new entrant. “The industry is not getting any smaller. It has a bright future, we just need to maintain quality.” Director Stefan Newman says The Bottling Company is aiming at the ‘medium-sized’ market, with the ability to do small runs. Their equipment is capable of bottling 7000
bottles an hour, and 75,000 litres of wine a day, and can do any sized bottle from 375ml to magnums. “At this stage, we’ve got a pretty full schedule. We’re certainly looking at some double shifts. “We’re still in the learning phase .. It’s pretty exciting.”