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RedBull Powder's proud legacy – and bright future Company Profile

RedBull Powder's proud legacy – and bright future

RedBull Powder Company celebrated its 20-year legacy of innovation recently as the company continues to grow. The RedBull team gathered 130 staff, customers and suppliers together at Bracu Pavilion in Bombay to celebrate the company’s 20th birthday. In 1997, founders Peter Shapiro and Mike Henderson set out to offer something...
Alpha Specialised Movers: Moving in a new direction Company Profile

Alpha Specialised Movers: Moving in a new direction

Alpha Specialised Movers is moving in a new direction now that one of its founders has retired. RICHARD SILCOCK talks to its remaining director about the change. Upper Hutt based Alpha Specialised Movers is on the verge of a new era following the retirement at the end of last year of co-founder, co-owner and long-time specialist...
For the good of energy Company Profile

For the good of energy

This article first appeared in Contractor February 2017. Taranaki company Burgess & Crowley Civil has been providing various aggregate services to the region’s energy industry for almost three decades and its latest wellsite construction project involved an innovative way of minimising vehicle movements on a strategic rural road....
Scrapers reign supreme Company Profile

Scrapers reign supreme

Motorised scrapers are enjoying a huge resurgence, and the smartest earthmovers are cashing in on the productivity, and profitability, they offer. For some, such as Drapers Earthmoving, the sun never set on the scraper’s ‘heyday’. Owner Vic Draper and son Scott talks to Chris Webb about his loyalty to these evergreen workhorses of...
Worthington Contracting: from strength to strength Company Profile

Worthington Contracting: from strength to strength

It’s now a case of where to from here for a small family company that grew rapidly in the aftermath of the Canterbury earthquakes. HUGH DE LACY reviews the options. WHEN RUSSELL WORTHINGTON started his contracting company in 1984 he gave it an impressive name – North Canterbury Excavation and Drainage – for an outfit whose...
CCNZ member profile: Bev and Erin Bowling Company Profile

CCNZ member profile: Bev and Erin Bowling

Sons following fathers into the construction industry is a fairly common practice, so it’s refreshing to see a daughter doing the same. But then again, Erin Bowling is just following in her mother Bev’s footsteps – keeping the family business humming from the office. BY MARY SEARLE BELL You’d have to be blind and deaf to not...
Gordon Stone: An industry Veteran's long stay with Titan Company Profile

Gordon Stone: An industry Veteran's long stay with Titan

Gordon Stone explains exactly why he has spent the past 45 years working for one company. BY GAVIN RILEY. WHEN GORDON STONE travelled from his Christchurch base to speak at the Titan Group’s 50th birthday celebration in Wellington over Queen’s Birthday weekend, he had good reason to recall how he started work for the company as a...
Going the distance in the Deep South Company Profile

Going the distance in the Deep South

The latter half of last century was a boom era for Southland contractor A G Hoffman, but the long-established company has had to adapt to the much more subdued tempo of recent years. By GAVIN RILEY. ANYONE LOOKING to understand the increasing struggle for survival of provincial contractors over the past 25 years could do no better...
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