{"id":292960,"date":"2026-02-20T06:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T06:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/292960\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T06:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T06:16:08","slug":"bremworth-rehires-former-staff-and-takes-on-design-spun-workers-as-napier-plant-ramps-up-post-cyclone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/292960\/","title":{"rendered":"Bremworth rehires former staff and takes on Design Spun workers as Napier plant ramps up post-cyclone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"nfOBuVOCysHhj\" style=\"display:none\">Through the Ministry of Social Development (MSD), 15 candidates were referred to Bremworth, including former Design Spun staff. <\/p>\n<p class=\"nfOBuVOCysHhj\" style=\"display:none\">Design Spun managing director Brendan Jackson said the support from MSD for his staff ahead of the closure made the process a little easier for his staff.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nfOBuVOCysHhj\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cIt worked really well for our team. We have the majority, if not all, of our manufacturing team who wanted to continue working across to Bremworth.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"nfOBuVOCysHhj\" style=\"display:none\">Bremworth, which has invested $5.6 million to reinstate yarn-making equipment, had been sourcing yarn internationally after the cyclone disruption.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nfOBuVOCysHhj\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cReinstating local woollen yarn production at our Awatoto plant is key to maintaining Bremworth\u2019s reputation for premium quality carpets,\u201d head of yarn operations Chris Nabney said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nfOBuVOCysHhj\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe can control our quality a lot better here, as opposed to processing New Zealand woollen yarn overseas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"nfOBuVOCysHhj\" style=\"display:none\">The recovery comes against a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/hawkes-bay-today\/news\/hawkes-bay-sheep-and-farm-numbers-take-a-hit-federated-farmers-on-a-campaign-to-save-those-remaining\/PRZIJ3AADNDTFB2PEUP6NG3H6Y\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/hawkes-bay-today\/news\/hawkes-bay-sheep-and-farm-numbers-take-a-hit-federated-farmers-on-a-campaign-to-save-those-remaining\/PRZIJ3AADNDTFB2PEUP6NG3H6Y\/\">challenging backdrop for the wool industry<\/a> in Hawke\u2019s Bay. Sheep numbers have dropped from about five million in 1990 to fewer than three million today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nfOBuVOCysHhj\" style=\"display:none\">MSD regional commissioner Steve Smits-Murray said Cyclone Gabrielle had a significant impact on Hawke\u2019s Bay employment, particularly in manufacturing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nfOBuVOCysHhj\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cIt is fantastic to see businesses like Bremworth reopen, and being able to place so many employees into work is a real win for us and for the community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"nfOBuVOCysHhj\" style=\"display:none\">Through the Enhanced Taskforce Green programme activated post-cyclone, MSD contracted four providers to employ 54 workers for initial clean-up efforts, paid 203 wage subsidies to 57 employers to help fill 232 cyclone and flood-related vacancies, and funded training programmes for hundreds of workers across the region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Through the Ministry of Social Development (MSD), 15 candidates were referred to Bremworth, including former Design Spun staff.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292961,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,95,9526,806,123178,162123,66046,17163,33959,501,162126,6183,4484,679,2740,33960,8454,4858,440,13106,27612,7243,3607,111,43,139,69,90,4885,146954,84772,162125,162122,82790,1516,1120,1529,810,162124,4478,1530],"class_list":{"0":"post-292960","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-after","9":"tag-and","10":"tag-another","11":"tag-as","12":"tag-bremworth","13":"tag-bremworths","14":"tag-carpet","15":"tag-closure","16":"tag-cyclone","17":"tag-design","18":"tag-displaced","19":"tag-dozens","20":"tag-employees","21":"tag-forced","22":"tag-former","23":"tag-gabrielle","24":"tag-including","25":"tag-layoffs","26":"tag-local","27":"tag-maker","28":"tag-mass","29":"tag-mill","30":"tag-napier","31":"tag-new-zealand","32":"tag-news","33":"tag-newzealand","34":"tag-nz","35":"tag-on","36":"tag-plant","37":"tag-postcyclone","38":"tag-ramps","39":"tag-rehired","40":"tag-rehires","41":"tag-spun","42":"tag-staff","43":"tag-takes","44":"tag-three","45":"tag-up","46":"tag-woollen","47":"tag-workers","48":"tag-years"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}