{"id":91789,"date":"2025-10-21T09:07:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T09:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/91789\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T09:07:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T09:07:08","slug":"hawkes-bay-business-awards-finalists-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/91789\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawke\u2019s Bay Business Awards finalists announced"},"content":{"rendered":"

The awards include the new Outstanding M\u0101ori and Pasifika Business and Best Micro Business awards, recognising the diverse contributions of small and culturally-led enterprises.<\/p>\n

Each entry was assessed on business performance, innovation, leadership, sustainability, and community contribution. <\/p>\n

For the new M\u0101ori and Pasifika, and Micro Business categories, judges also considered cultural impact and excellence in smaller-scale operations.<\/p>\n

The major award last year<\/a> went to Hastings civil construction company T\u016bpore Infrastructure.<\/p>\n

Actor, writer, director, and comedian Madeleine Sami will host the awards function.<\/p>\n

Finalists are:<\/p>\n

Best Micro Business: Sacred Space Cleaning, Contentment PR and Communications. <\/p>\n

People\u2019s Choice: Cleva Chiropractic, P\u0113pi Eats, Hygge at Clifton Bay. <\/p>\n

Best Emerging Business: RossAi, Cleva Chiropractic, MTF Finance Napier.<\/p>\n

Outstanding M\u0101ori and Pasifika Business: Kauwaka, Kahu Scaffolding Ltd, T\u0101tau T\u0101tau o Te Wairoa <\/p>\n

Outstanding Social Impact: MTF Finance Napier, T\u0101tau T\u0101tau o Te Wairoa, H\u014dhepa Hawke\u2019s Bay.<\/p>\n

Excellence in Business: Bizdom, HB Homes & Commercial, Brittin Builders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The awards include the new Outstanding M\u0101ori and Pasifika Business and Best Micro Business awards, recognising the diverse…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":91790,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[696,4765,10779,1561,1558,138,68794,68793,305,1976,10136,111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-91789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-announced","tag-annual","tag-awards","tag-bay","tag-been","tag-business","tag-categories","tag-finalists","tag-have","tag-hawkes","tag-named","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91789","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=91789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}