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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 2]
Opening Of Our Border Is Our Moment To Get Our Welcome Right
Friday, 29 July 2022, 12:28 pm | Auckland Business Chamber
At long last, the borders are opening and as midnight strikes on July 31 New Zealand must stand tall to welcome tourists, investors, students, and importantly skilled workers to show a bright future and once and for all banish our obsession with gloom, ... More >>
Overly Rigid Isolation Rules Creating “Business Long Covid”
Monday, 25 July 2022, 11:49 am | Auckland Business Chamber
As our tourism, hospitality and retail businesses see a glimmer of recovery with a busy winter season and the imminent opening of the borders, hotels are closed, skiers are queueing in the cold for a bus that will not come to get to the ski fields, ... More >>
Efforts To Ease Pain At The Pump Welcomed By Business
Sunday, 17 July 2022, 5:49 pm | Auckland Business Chamber
Cuts to fuel tax and road user charges and continuation of half price public transport fares through to the end of January will provide immediate tangible benefits to businesses and householders battling the rising cost of living as well as tackling inflation ... More >>
Lift The Barriers To Getting Healthy Household Contacts And The People We Need Into Our Jobs
Thursday, 14 July 2022, 2:46 pm | Auckland Business Chamber
Business will do everything to keep workplaces safe and healthy, but need Government to act constructively to the critical worker shortages by allowing household contacts of cases who test negative to return to work and hurry up with the reset to bring ... More >>
NZ-EU FTA Opens New Opportunities
Friday, 1 July 2022, 5:28 pm | Auckland Business Chamber
The long negotiated Free Trade Deal between New Zealand and the European Union has got over the line, not perfect, but offering diversification and opportunities for tariff free exports and for opening a wide market of opportunity for exports of our ... More >>
Alarm Bells Ring As Confidence Deteriorates
Friday, 3 June 2022, 2:28 pm | Auckland Business Chamber
Business is bracing for the worst, buckling under a perfect storm of wage pressures, skills shortages and overhead increases that have ramped up over the past three months, says Auckland Business Chamber CEO, Michael Barnett. “Small and medium enterprises, ... More >>
Orange Is The New Green And Let's Business Get On With It
Tuesday, 24 May 2022, 1:16 pm | Auckland Business Chamber
Remaining in the orange traffic light setting is not a constraint or handbrake to accelerating business recovery, rebuilding, and planning for growth, says Auckland Business Chamber CEO Michael Barnett. “Businesses can do everything under Orange, ... More >>
Michael Barnett To Stand Down As Auckland Chamber CEO
Friday, 20 May 2022, 6:45 am | Auckland Business Chamber
Auckland Chamber Chair, Charlotte Parkhill, confirmed today that longstanding Auckland Chamber Chief Executive, Michael Barnett, would stand down as CEO in August this year but would maintain a role driving key Chamber projects including Firststeps, ... More >>
Auckland Business Chamber: Budget
Thursday, 19 May 2022, 6:50 pm | Auckland Business Chamber
It took guts to pull out a silver lining to mitigate the pressure on the family purse from spiralling inflation and interest rates but the biggest and most rewarding contribution the Budget could make is to promote growth. “The Government deserves ... More >>
Inflation Figure – A Warning For Business
Thursday, 21 April 2022, 3:50 pm | Auckland Business Chamber
The latest inflation figures are another wake up call for businesses and a reminder to review their cost structures in order to mitigate the inflation effects says Auckland Business Chamber CEO, Michael Barnett. “While some of the 30-year inflation high ... More >>
Orange At Long Last To Signal We Are Good To Go
Wednesday, 13 April 2022, 2:45 pm | Auckland Business Chamber
Auckland Business Chamber Chief Executive Michael Barnett said the long awaited and longed for orange setting will provide the confidence and certainty visitors and hospitality, events, and accommodation businesses need to enjoy Easter and school ... More >>
Supreme Night For VisionWest
Friday, 8 April 2022, 4:42 pm | Auckland Business Chamber
Last night 500 people, across 5 locations were brought together for an evening designed to celebrate the best businesses in North & West Auckland. It was a night worth celebrating for many businesses across the region, especially for VisionWest ... More >>
Tell Us Monday To Make Friday Good – A Message To Government From Auckland Businesses
Thursday, 7 April 2022, 1:02 pm | Auckland Business Chamber
If Government announced after Cabinet on Monday a change to the orange traffic light instead of waiting till Thursday the impact on business and the community would be immediate and positive, Auckland Business Chamber CEO, Michael Barnett said, speaking ... More >>
Red Does Not Mean Stop
Monday, 4 April 2022, 5:00 pm | Auckland Business Chamber
So, we’re stalled on red for at least another 10 days but there are mitigations that business – and the public sector - can and should take to get the city moving, says Auckland Business Chamber CEO, Michael Barnett “Many businesses are doing ... More >>
ETCO Big Winners At Business Awards!
Friday, 1 April 2022, 1:44 pm | Auckland Business Chamber
Last night 500 people, across 5 locations were brought together for an evening designed to celebrate the best businesses in South and East Auckland. It was a night worth celebrating for many businesses across the region, especially for The Electrical ... More >>
International Fashion Designer Adds A Supreme Award To Closet
Friday, 25 March 2022, 1:46 pm | Auckland Business Chamber
To succeed in 2021 the Auckland Business Chamber encouraged business to change, innovate and reimagine the way they work. In order to present the Westpac Auckland Business Awards , they have had to do the same. Last night 500 people, across 5 locations ... More >>
Hey Aussies – “Come On Over”
Wednesday, 16 March 2022, 12:00 pm | Auckland Business Chamber
It’s now up to all of us to help fire up tourism and encourage fully vaccinated family, friends and visitors from Aussie to come on over for April school holidays and from visa-waiver countries from May to be here for the ski season. “We can ... More >>
Government Shows Leadership
Monday, 14 March 2022, 7:29 pm | Auckland Business Chamber
Government has responded swiftly and decisively to ease the pain of volatile energy prices on consumers’ pockets cutting fuel excise duty and road user charges by 25 cents per litre each and halving public transport fare for the next three months. ... More >>
Not Enough
Wednesday, 9 March 2022, 2:02 pm | Auckland Business Chamber
The reduction to seven-day isolation is a start but it fails to take all the steps Government could take to help business maintain its workforce. At the moment, if household contacts are so-called “critical workers” they can daily test and if ... More >>
Isolation Now History
Monday, 28 February 2022, 5:21 pm | Auckland Business Chamber
Government has demonstrated flexibility and pragmatism in eliminating self-isolation for fully vaccinated, Covid- free travellers returning to New Zealand from March 3 and bringing forward the staged reopening of our borders. “Our border still provides ... More >>
