BAY OF PLENTY BUSINESS NEWS DECEMBER 2019
From mid-2016 Bay of Plenty businesses have a new voice, Bay of Plenty Business News. This new publication reflects the region’s growth and importance as part of the wider central North Island economy.
From mid-2016 Bay of Plenty businesses have a new voice, Bay of Plenty Business News. This new publication reflects the region’s growth and importance as part of the wider central North Island economy.
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8 <strong>BAY</strong> <strong>OF</strong> <strong>PLENTY</strong> <strong>BUSINESS</strong> <strong>NEWS</strong> December <strong>2019</strong><br />
WESTPAC TAURANGA <strong>BUSINESS</strong> AWARDS <strong>2019</strong><br />
Kiwifruit company takes out coveted Tauranga<br />
business award<br />
From page 3<br />
“I would like to thank our<br />
team for their passion and hard<br />
work that has enabled us all to<br />
get EastPack to where we are<br />
today. This is a celebration of<br />
how far we have come in the<br />
last few years, and gives us<br />
confidence that we have the<br />
team, culture and ability to<br />
make the exciting future ahead<br />
of us a great success.”<br />
All the judges for EastPack<br />
were really impressed with the<br />
overall way the company does<br />
business, how they had amalgamated<br />
with fellow packhouse<br />
company Satara, and<br />
that they knew they needed<br />
to make huge changes within<br />
their business. They did so by<br />
using all the innovation they<br />
could to make them business<br />
leaders in their field, the judges<br />
said.<br />
EastPack’s journey to<br />
change their health and safety<br />
culture over the last few years<br />
was also something the judges<br />
could not look past.<br />
“They did not demonstrate<br />
mere compliance, but that they<br />
are a leader within their industry.<br />
Of the many things they<br />
have implemented it includes<br />
some technology solutions<br />
to eliminate people and forklift<br />
interaction risk by use of<br />
stacking robot and an automated<br />
storage and retrieval<br />
warehouse system, improved<br />
forklift training and assessment<br />
process and investigating<br />
new areas of risk that has not<br />
previously been considered<br />
such as conducting research<br />
into the combustibility of gold<br />
kiwifruit dust.”<br />
The company had also made<br />
significant reductions in discomfort<br />
pain and injury (DPI)<br />
to their workers by having a<br />
dedicated FTE over their peak<br />
season to work on this industry<br />
wide issue, and improving<br />
awareness amongst staff with<br />
training, two hourly worker<br />
checks and decals and signage<br />
throughout with DPI messages<br />
in multiple languages.<br />
“This, however, could not<br />
be achieved if they had not<br />
worked with all levels of the<br />
business, giving them the<br />
training and confidence to be<br />
empowered to make and be<br />
Continued on page 11<br />
Emerging Business Award winners Collab Digital.<br />
Bay of plenty<br />
Bay of Plenty Business News<br />
congratulates all category winners,<br />
finalists and entrants in the <strong>2019</strong><br />
Westpac Tauranga Business Awards.<br />
Congratulations<br />
to all the winners<br />
and participants in<br />
the <strong>2019</strong> Westpac<br />
Tauranga Business<br />
Awards!<br />
We look forward to seeing you<br />
again next year.<br />
Proud sponsors of the<br />
Digital Innovation and Technology Award
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