Our Story Your Story - Waikato Business News 25 Years
It’s a proud moment for any company to stand up and say ‘we have been serving our business community for more than 25 years’. That is the case with Waikato Business News. In that time our editors have featured many strong and exclusive stories covering the exciting business within the region, and we have built up a loyal group of advertising supporters. In our special feature “Our story Your story - 25 years” we cast our eye back over a quarter-century of business in the Waikato, and we profile many of the business leaders well known in the community, who make our region a shining light in the country.
It’s a proud moment for any company to stand up and say ‘we have been serving our business community for more than 25 years’.
That is the case with Waikato Business News.
In that time our editors have featured many strong and exclusive stories covering the exciting business within the region, and we have built up a loyal group of advertising supporters.
In our special feature “Our story Your story - 25 years” we cast our eye back over a quarter-century of business in the Waikato, and we profile many of the business leaders well known in the community, who make our region a shining light in the country.
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<strong>Waikato</strong> <strong>Business</strong> <strong>News</strong> <strong>25</strong> <strong>Years</strong> | 23<br />
1999<br />
Hobbiton set<br />
is built near<br />
Matamata for<br />
filming of Lord<br />
Of The Rings<br />
trilogy (guided<br />
tours start on<br />
2002).<br />
2000<br />
Single sculler<br />
Rob Waddell wins<br />
Olympic gold in<br />
Sydney.<br />
2001<br />
ROBOTICS FUTURE<br />
2001<br />
Fonterra is established<br />
in October 2001 following<br />
the merger of the<br />
country’s two largest<br />
dairy co-operatives,<br />
<strong>Waikato</strong>-based New<br />
Zealand Dairy Group and<br />
Kiwi Cooperative Dairies,<br />
with the New Zealand<br />
Dairy Board.<br />
Gallagher Academy of<br />
Performing Arts opens at<br />
University of <strong>Waikato</strong>.<br />
CONTINUED ON PAGE 30<br />
Collaboration boosts<br />
sector’s potential<br />
1999<br />
ALAN GRANT<br />
Pam Corbett talks to the man<br />
driving the growth of Lollipop’s<br />
Playlands in New Zealand and<br />
Australia<br />
2002<br />
Publishers change at<br />
<strong>Waikato</strong> <strong>Business</strong> <strong>News</strong><br />
<strong>Waikato</strong> <strong>Business</strong> Publications<br />
purchases the publishing assets<br />
and rights from Sandra Peek’s<br />
Byword Publishing Ltd<br />
<strong>Waikato</strong> Stadium opens<br />
with a Super 12 rugby match<br />
between the Chiefs and the<br />
Crusaders.
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