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Auckland Business Chamber
The voice of business for Auckland
Auckland Business Chamber is New Zealand's largest business organisation and part of the New Zealand Chambers of Commerce network. Successful business ensures strong and successful communities, and the Chamber contributes to this through support and advocacy to deliver the best platform for business to operate from. Auckland Chamber has worked with business within the region for more than 160 years – for both start up and established businesses, trading locally and on the world stage. Auckland Business Chamber is a membership-based organisation offering a wide range of business support solutions and part of the international Chambers of Commerce network.
Auckland Business Chamber - Latest News [Page 11]
Westpac Auckland Business Awards – Best of the Best
Friday, 15 March 2019, 2:18 pm | Auckland Business Chamber
Glidepath won the Supreme Business Excellence Award at last night’s Westpac Auckland Business Awards - Best of the Best. More >>
Council’s Event Agency (ATEED) withdraws Santa Funding
Thursday, 21 February 2019, 8:21 am | Auckland Business Chamber
Auckland Council’s event agency ATEED will not be funding the Santa Parade from now on. More >>
How Business Chamber sees Eden Park
Thursday, 10 January 2019, 5:03 pm | Auckland Business Chamber
Either Auckland gives Eden Park a more flexible and realistic operating framework and allows it to generate a sustainable amount of revenue or it continues to constrain it. More >>
Winning business pushes the right buttons
Thursday, 15 November 2018, 5:21 pm | Auckland Business Chamber
Pushpay has won the Supreme Business Excellence Award at last night’s Westpac Auckland Business Awards 2018 – Central region. More >>
The challenge for business from employment figures
Thursday, 8 November 2018, 2:06 pm | Auckland Business Chamber
Congratulations to the Government, and in particular the agencies that assist in placing people into work, by recording the lowest unemployment figures in a decade. More >>
Encouraging signs for business confidence
Friday, 2 November 2018, 11:42 am | Auckland Business Chamber
Auckland's SME (Small and Medium Enterprise) sector displayed a changing view of business confidence in Auckland Chamber’s latest quarterly survey. More >>
Westpac Auckland Business Awards 2018
Thursday, 18 October 2018, 9:55 am | Auckland Business Chamber
Westpac Auckland Business Awards 2018 Winning business links to major award Link2 Group has won the Supreme Business Excellence Award at last night’s Westpac Auckland Business Awards 2018 – South East region. More >>
Auckland Business Chamber on petrol prices
Tuesday, 9 October 2018, 1:19 pm | Auckland Business Chamber
The tipping point for fuel consumers has been the blunt and ineffective fuel taxes imposed by local and central government. The margins identified by media today are less than most retailers would seek and have not changed. It is worth noting: • ... More >>
Unsolicited Bid to Fund And Build Penlink as a PPP
Friday, 5 October 2018, 2:33 pm | Auckland Business Chamber
An unsolicited bid by an international group to establish a joint venture with a NZ construction company to undertake the Penlink Toll Road Project as a BOOT – Build, Own, Operate, Transfer – has been lodged with the NZ Transport Agency. More >>
Urban Development Authority a long overdue initiative
Friday, 31 August 2018, 2:01 pm | Auckland Business Chamber
Setting up an Urban Development Authority with powers to get houses built faster in Auckland “is a long overdue initiative,” says Auckland Business Chamber head Michael Barnett. More >>
Labour laws and business
Wednesday, 25 July 2018, 2:08 pm | Auckland Business Chamber
Before assuming proposed new labour laws will return employment relationships to the past, business might do well to consider behaviour changes themselves to strengthen recruitment practices and manage workplace access, suggests Auckland Business Chamber ... More >>
The Michael Barnett Scholarship winners announced
Wednesday, 25 July 2018, 12:45 pm | Auckland Business Chamber
Auckland Business Chamber is delighted to announce that the 2018 recipients for The Michael Barnett Scholarship are Raymond McKay and Elspeth Carroll. More >>
Tourism dollars being lost
Tuesday, 3 July 2018, 3:59 pm | Auckland Business Chamber
Revenues of up to $40m are being lost for Auckland businesses because mooring buoys or “dolphins” that were approved last November for location at the end of Queens Wharf are not yet consented. More >>
Penlink action falls into a political black hole
Thursday, 21 June 2018, 11:29 am | Auckland Business Chamber
When Penlink was finally elevated into the Auckland Transport Alignment Plan (ATAP) earlier this year with money allocated for construction within 10-years, the residents and businesses where the congestion has the worst impact were pleased – all their ... More >>
Auckland Business Confidence ‘Goes into Free Fall’
Thursday, 7 June 2018, 2:51 pm | Auckland Business Chamber
Auckland Business Confidence ‘Goes into Free Fall’ In June 2017 33% of Auckland businesses believed the economy would improve over the next 6 months while just 8% said the economy would deteriorate. Come forward a year to June 2018 and just 15% ... More >>
Council Would Be Wise to Re-Consider Its Waste Policies
Wednesday, 23 May 2018, 2:48 pm | Auckland Business Chamber
Council Would Be Wise to Re-Consider Its Waste Management Policies Auckland Council’s proposal to use rates funding to subsidise expansion of its own waste collection services in competition with the private sector should be withdrawn. “It creates ... More >>
Congratulations on Penlink
Thursday, 26 April 2018, 3:34 pm | Auckland Business Chamber
Chamber CEO Michael Barnett has congratulated the Minister of Transport, Hon. Phil Twyford, for getting the message that Penlink was a ready-to-go project with a business plan and consents – a message the previous Government had ignored. More >>
Penlink – Auckland’s only ‘ready to go’ project
Wednesday, 18 April 2018, 5:06 pm | Auckland Business Chamber
Auckland Transport’s updated Penlink report for a 4-lane option reinforces the potential for significantly improved bus services and a doubling of commuter patronage. More >>
Auckland’s double petrol rise hits freight hard
Thursday, 5 April 2018, 5:33 pm | Auckland Business Chamber
Every cent of the 23.5c a litre increase represents more costs that freight and other businesses will likely pass on to customers, adding millions of dollars to the price of goods & services and ultimately adding to inflation. More >>
Business of convenience bags Best of the Best award
Thursday, 29 March 2018, 11:32 am | Auckland Business Chamber
Business of convenience bags Best of the Best award My Food Bag won the Supreme Business Excellence Award at last night’s Westpac Auckland Business Awards Best of the Best for 2017. Following on from their two regional awards last year for Customer ... More >>
