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Williams established Wanganui Trawlers with local lawyer Gordon Swan, initially with one trawler fishing inshore waters and supplying local fish and chip shops. When the New Zealand exclusive economic zone was extended to 200 miles in 1977, Williams gained an offshore fishing quota that allowed the business to expand. Joint ventures with Korean ...
Online sales made up NZ$150 million of their revenue – a rise of nearly 800% from just NZ$18.8 million in 2011, though still barely 0.56% of their total sales. While The Warehouse and Warehouse Stationery recorded strong profit growth, the Noel Leeming electronics store division reported a drop in profit of 43% (partly due to one-off ...
City in Manawatū-Whanganui, New Zealand Whanganui City Coat of arms Nickname: The River City Motto(s): Sans Dieu Rien, English: Without God Nothing Whanganui Coordinates: 39°55′57″S 175°03′07″E / 39.93250°S 175.05194°E / -39.93250; 175.05194 Country New Zealand Region Manawatū-Whanganui Territorial authority Whanganui District Council Government • Mayor Andrew Tripe ...
Woolworths Wanganui, 2006. In 1990, Hong Kong's Dairy Farm International acquired the Woolworths New Zealand business, consisting of Woolworths, Price Chopper and Big Fresh chains. Woolworths launched New Zealand's first online supermarket in 1996. [4] Between 1990 and 2000, Woolworths trialled a network of min-supermarkets in BP petrol ...
F. Whitlock & Sons Ltd was very much a family business, with four generations of Whitlocks joining and running the company before it was sold in 1985 to Australian company R M Gow Ltd. Thereafter, the company changed hands a couple more times before being purchased by another well known New Zealand food manufacturer, Cerebos Gregg Ltd .
Castlecliff is a suburb of Whanganui, in the Whanganui District and Manawatū-Whanganui region of New Zealand's North Island. The name was given by the Harbour Board, on the suggestion of the future Prime Minister, John Ballance , [ 3 ] when it established the township on what were described as "barren sandhills" in 1882.
Whanganui District covers 2,373.27 km 2 (916.32 sq mi) [1] and had an estimated population of 48,600 as of June 2024, [2] with a population density of 20 people per km 2.All but some 6,100 people in the Whanganui District live in the city itself, meaning there are few prominent outlying settlements.
Marton (Māori: Tutaenui) is a town in the Rangitikei district of the Manawatū-Whanganui region of New Zealand's North Island. It is situated 35 kilometres southeast of Whanganui and 40 kilometres northwest of Palmerston North. Ngāti Apa are tangata whenua for the Marton area.