The company's managing director, Warren Huband, recently celebrated 32 years in business in Northland.
Another exciting move for Whangarei photographer, and member of Northland Mumtrepreneurs, Sarah Marshall has moved into her new business at Bank St.
Marshall has teamed up with Amy Muldrock, Jocelyn Lenssen, Evelyn Laybourn, Megan Pitchforth and Frances Keogh at The One Stop Wedding Shop on 84 Bank Street - a bridal store collective which features Allure Weddings and Party Hire, Aurora Beauty, Meganlicious Cakes and Confetti Road Boutique Weddings (wedding planning).
The Kerikeri branch of Craigs Investment Partners has moved into an expanded premises at Hobson House - opposite the post office - and marks nearly 10 years since a branch was first opened in Kerikeri.
The company says a 65 per cent increase in funds under management between 2010 and 2014 was expected to ramp up, with low interest rates and a growing stream of retirees from the Auckland housing market generating significant new investment activity in the Mid and Far North.
The Kerikeri team includes investment advisers Ian Derrick and Bruce Mathieson, with Sara Dormer and Carolyne Brooks-Quan.
Craigs Investment Partners secured a foothold in Northland when Derrick opened a branch in Whangarei in 1999.
Establishing an additional branch in Kerikeri during 2006 was a logical progression, he said.
WE'RE OPEN
A new health clinic has opened in Paihia, offering a free, pregnancy drop-in centre for women.
Bayview Health offers natural therapies and even a free, drop-in clinic for pre-conceptual advice, free pregnancy tests and free maternity care.
Director Saskia Botello said she opened the centre because she had a passion for woman's health and making sure women are fully informed in making decisions in their pregnancy, labour/birth and postnatal period.
Botello said she grew up in an "alternative household", one which gave her the honour of delivering her own little sister at home when she was a teenager.
After a few years of working in professional massage, including pregnancy massage, she became a midwife and now provides maternity care from Whangaroa to Paihia and Kaikohe.
The clinic has six midwives and a number of other therapists providing natural health treatments, such as pregnancy massage, herbal medicine and reflexology. The team includes Leon Botello, Lonneke Botello, Rixt Botello, Janine Davis, Justine O'Dwyer and Karen Harris.
A new cafe and function venue called Quail Cafe will open at the Whangarei Quarry Gardens on Russell Rd on November 21.
Top Northland foodie Julie Bell is at the helm of the cafe, which is part of the new visitor centre. She will be joined by coffee guru Helen Smith, who used to own Vinyl Restaurant and Bar in Whangarei for 12 years and started up GoGo Espresso on Reyburn St.
The new event centre recently opened for the sculpture trail and included a pop-up version of the cafe.
Bell has operated several food businesses, including Bank St's Cafe Monet in the 1980s, Wild Thyme Catering Company, Thyme Out Catering and the Great Taste Food Show, which ran for six years in Whangarei.
WE'RE ONLINE
Photographer Sarahlee Cobb has made some changes to her glamour portrait business and has rebranded her studio and launched a new website, featuring before and after galleries, behind the scenes videos and an online magazine showcasing real shoots at what is now called the Sarahlee Studio.
Sarahlee said she worked on the project with her business mentor Brya Page of Printing.com.
Each issue of the Sarahlee Studio online magazine at sarahleestudio.co.nz contains full-page spreads of real photo shoots, uplifting stories and the latest news from the business.
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