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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 7]
Auckland - Ready To Celebrate
Sunday, 29 November 2020, 6:11 pm | Auckland Business Chamber
Tens of thousands of Aucklanders showed they are ready to enjoy life again, lining the central city streets, the rain refusing to dim the smiles and cheers as Santa made his appearance to herald the beginning of the festive season in a procession ... More >>
Cream Of The Crop Will Get To Market
Friday, 27 November 2020, 6:13 am | Auckland Business Chamber
Government has put business, the health and safety of people and the economy at the front of the queue and will open the borders from the New Year to bring in 2000 experienced seasonal workers from the Pacific, and streamline bureaucracy to allow ... More >>
Westpac Auckland Business Awards 2020 CentralWoop! Claim Supreme Award
Friday, 20 November 2020, 6:31 am | Auckland Business Chamber
Woop!, leaders in the competitive dinner kit delivery market, have been rewarded for their agile response this year by winning the Supreme Business Excellence Award at the Westpac Auckland Business Awards 2020 Central Region this evening. Launched ... More >>
COVID-19 Leave Support Scheme
Friday, 13 November 2020, 9:13 am | Auckland Business Chamber
Following the Auckland COVID-19 Case announcement yesterday and government advice for staff in the CBD to work from home where possible, please see the available support for employers and their employees during this time. The COVID-19 Leave Support Scheme ... More >>
Be Responsible And Protect Yourself And Everyone Else
Thursday, 12 November 2020, 6:39 pm | Auckland Business Chamber
Covid is back in the community, back in Auckland city, threatening to cut short our window of recovery and jolting us out of complacency and slack behaviour, says Auckland Business Chamber CEO, Michael Barnett. “Our continued freedom of movement ... More >>
Filling The Fiscal Hole
Thursday, 12 November 2020, 9:41 am | Auckland Business Chamber
Auckland Council needs to do what any pragmatic business fighting for its livelihood would do and reassess and rethink how and what it does to dig ratepayers out of the billion-dollar fiscal hole, says Auckland Business Chamber CEO, Michael Barnett. ... More >>
CEO Auckland Business Chamber, Michael Barnett’s Submission On Eden Park Trust’s Resource Consent Application
Wednesday, 4 November 2020, 5:15 pm | Auckland Business Chamber
Michael Barnett (Auckland Business Chamber) submission on Eden Park Trust’s resource consent application to secure up to six music consents a year at Eden Park. November 4th 2020 at the Eden Park Concert Resource Consent Hearing I am Michael Barnett, ... More >>
Economic Recovery Ready For Action
Monday, 2 November 2020, 3:10 pm | Auckland Business Chamber
It’s all systems go for business to get moving with greater confidence, supported by a coordinated health response to keep Covid-19 at bay and a new improved, coordinated senior economic team, under Grant Robertson, who adds Deputy Prime Minister and Infrastructure ... More >>
Westpac Auckland Business Awards North & West - Skydive Auckland
Friday, 30 October 2020, 12:25 pm | Auckland Business Chamber
Skydive Auckland has won the Supreme Business Excellence Award at the Westpac Auckland Business Awards 2020 – North & West region. The adventure tourism operator, based at Parakai Airport, offers the highest tandem skydive in the Southern Hemisphere, ... More >>
Westpac Auckland Business Awards 2020 North & West | Skydive Auckland Reach New Heights
Friday, 30 October 2020, 6:22 am | Auckland Business Chamber
Skydive Auckland has won the Supreme Business Excellence Award at the Westpac Auckland Business Awards 2020 – North & West region. The adventure tourism operator, based at Parakai Airport, offers the highest tandem skydive in the Southern Hemisphere, ... More >>
Business Get Back Together
Friday, 9 October 2020, 3:48 pm | Auckland Business Chamber
Just over 24 hours after Auckland moved to Level One, over 200 small and medium business leaders met at Cordis Auckland to hear from Hon Grant Robertson at an Auckland Business Chamber event this morning. Technology is set to be the country’s second ... More >>
Quarantine Capital Of New Zealand Is Not The Brand Auckland
Friday, 2 October 2020, 5:41 pm | Auckland Business Chamber
Quarantine capital of New Zealand is not the brand Auckland wants, needs or should have to live with, says Auckland Business Chamber CEO, Michael Barnett. “We are going to need quarantine facilities to be available for a long time, but it is time ... More >>
If We Are Going To Level One – Go Immediately
Friday, 2 October 2020, 1:44 pm | Auckland Business Chamber
Government can help give Auckland a new head of steam immediately if the decision is made to shift to Level One and join the rest of the New Zealand by doing the paperwork now to reignite the economy, says Auckland Business Chamber CEO, Michael Barnett. ... More >>
Chamber Calls For Early Shift To Level 1
Tuesday, 22 September 2020, 2:19 pm | Auckland Business Chamber
The latest Auckland Business Chamber survey shows the frustration small and medium sized businesses have over the extension of Level 2 restrictions stymying their recovery. “This is two weeks too long when we have the systems, processes and capability ... More >>
Two Weeks Too Long In Level Two
Monday, 21 September 2020, 2:41 pm | Auckland Business Chamber
From Auckland Business Chamber CEO, Michael Barnett: Auckland’s economic recovery remains hobbled for another two weeks at least with the order to stay in Level Two with no credit given to the show of compliance and vigilance to prevent new flare ... More >>
Second Harbour Crossing Urgent
Saturday, 19 September 2020, 5:57 pm | Auckland Business Chamber
A freak gust of wind upturning a truck on Auckland Harbour Bridge damaging its centre strut to force lane closures for weeks on end was a disaster waiting to happen and is another example of how we have no Plan B, says Auckland Business Chamber CEO, ... More >>
Employee’s Health And Wellbeing - Right Thing To Do
Saturday, 19 September 2020, 5:48 pm | Auckland Business Chamber
Business and consumers will pay the price for Labour’s plan to double minimum sick leave entitlements for workers to 10 days a year and raise the minimum wage to $20 an hour, but it is the right thing to do while we still grapple with the impacts ... More >>
National’s Budget Plans
Friday, 18 September 2020, 11:59 am | Auckland Business Chamber
Temporary tax breaks will put more money back into the economy if people can afford to spend and use the opportunity to invest in their own futures, says Auckland Business Chamber CEO, Michael Barnett, commenting on National’s alternative budget plans. ... More >>
Low Carbon Construction Policy Using More Homegrown Wood A Winner
Wednesday, 16 September 2020, 5:38 pm | Auckland Business Chamber
Government’s move to adopt and accelerate the procurement of low carbon construction materials, especially homegrown wood, for new public builds, will stimulate growth, jobs, investment and exports, as well as benefiting the environment, says Auckland ... More >>
Business Must Take The Lead
Wednesday, 16 September 2020, 4:18 pm | Auckland Business Chamber
High unemployment, a decade long tail of national debt and uncertainty in abundance makes for dire reading as Treasury opens the books, but rather than looking back at what has occurred, business and government need to start digging us out to ignite ... More >>
