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Friday January 18, 2013
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Jobs in demand Residential project managers, civil project managers and structural engineers are among the candidates in demand in 2013 with employers now planning and hiring for the year ahead, according to the Hays Quarterly Report. According to the latest Quarterly Report, out now and covering January to March 2013, pockets of shortages for specific skills remain in some sectors, including construction and engineering, particularly due to the continuing work on the Christchurch rebuild.
Waste company sold Wa s t e m a n a ge m e nt c o m p a ny EnviroWaste has been sold in a half billion dollar deal. Australian private equity company Ironbridge has sold the company to Hong Kong-based Cheung Kong Infrastructure Holdings Limited (CKI) for $490 million, plus $11 million for finance lease obligations.
Food prices fall Food prices fell 0.2 percent in the December month, and were down 1.0 percent on a year earlier, Statistics New Zealand said today. Lower prices in the December month for non-alcoholic beverages (down 2.8 percent) offset a rise in meat, poultry, and fish prices (up 0.9 percent). “Food prices fell in December, reflecting cheaper prices for non-alcoholic drinks that were partly countered by higher prices for chicken and seasonal price rises for fruit,” prices manager Chris Pike said.
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owners take over
By Chris Tobin The new owner/operators of Blenheim New World supermarket say they plan to become a big part of the Marlborough community. Ashley and Melanie Shore will formally take over the supermarket from Mark Elkington and Andrea Boock on Monday having shifted from Fairlie where they resided for four and a half years operating the Four Square store in the South
The median house price across the Nelson/ Marlborough region rose by $17,000 compared to November with prices in Marlborough/ Kaikoura rising fastest. Compared to December 2011 the median price increased by $20,500, according to statistics released by the Real Estate Institute of New Zealand. The number of days to sell improved by one day compared to November, from 36 days in November to 35 days in December. Compared to December 2011 the number of days to sell improved by two days. For 2012 the number of sales in the Nelson/Marlborough region was 2780 or 3.8 percent of all sales across New Zealand. Compared to 2011 the number of sales in Nelson/Marlborough increased by a 17.5 percent from 2366 in 2011 to 2780 in 2012. The overall trend for the region is flat. Meanwhile, the national median
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Welcome to Blenheim: The new owner/operators at Blenheim New World supermarket; Ashley and Melanie Shore.
Ashley has a strong business background. After university he joined Coca Cola and went through their management programme. From there he worked for Arnotts Campbells and then for the Goodman Fielder banking division
in Auckland. He said he was attracted by the retail side of business which drew him to securing a Four Square store with the goal of taking over a supermarket. He said Blenheim New World already had strong customer service and he
wanted to grow this even more. “You’ve got to make it an enjoyable shopping experience,” he said. Mark Elkington and Andrea Boock are establishing a new Pak’n Save supermarket on Middle Renwick Rd.
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Canterbury town. Ashley said it was “a massive, life changing” opportunity for them to obtain the supermarket and they are keen to get involved in the Blenheim community. They have three children Oliver, 8, Hunter, 5, and Claudia 2. “We love the weather; there’s lots to do for the kids and the people we’ve seen here are very friendly,” Melanie said. “We plan to be a big part of the community.”
house price reached a new record of $389,000 in December, up almost 10 percent on December 2011. Ongoing strong demand drove robust sales volume growth in the residential property market during 2012 with the number of sales up 21 per cent on 2011 and at the highest level since 2007. The chief executive of the Real Estate Institute of New Zealand (REINZ), Helen O’Sullivan, said that despite the strong growth in sales volume, the number of sales compared to the total number of dwellings in New Zealand remained well below the long run average and substantially below the peak volume of 2003 when more than 120,000 residential properties were sold. “A new record median price and robust volume growth saw the New Zealand real estate market end 2012 on a strong note and positioned for those trends to continue into 2013. “The key drivers in 2012 were the Auckland and Canterbury/Westland regions, which together make up over half the real estate activity in New Zealand, where supply constraints resulted in significant price gains that have not
been achieved elsewhere. “The strength of these two regions is starting to spill over into other parts of the country with Central Otago Lakes and Wellington both seeing more invigorated markets, particularly in terms of sales volumes. ” “A key development during 2012 has been the growth in sales by auction, with the number of properties sold by auction growing by more than two-thirds compared to 2011. “The growth in auction sales has been particularly strong in Auckland where almost two of every five sales are now by auction. The trend in auctions is evidence of the continued tightness of some parts of the residential real estate market where demand is increasing, but supply remains constrained.”
Web inventor to visit NZ The inventor of the world wide web – Sir Tim BernersLee – will visit Wellington later this month to deliver a public lecture exploring the benefits of an open and uncaptureable Internet. Hosted by InternetNZ as part of Berner-Lee’s ‘TBL Down Under Tour’ (http://tbldownunder.org), the lecture will take place at
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Soundings Theatre, Te Papa at 5.30pm on Wednesday January 30. Registrations for the public lecture can be made at http:// openinternetlecture.eventbrite. co.nz. Spaces are strictly limited and will be allocated on a firstcome first-served basis. Sir Tim Berners-Lee’s lecture will focus on the social,
economic and innovation opportunities of the Internet. Through the story of his invention of the world wide web, he will explain why the Internet needs openness to deliver these opportunities. The lecture will deliver a powerful message: the value of the open Internet and why it matters for New Zealand and the world.