When you think about Hawke’s Bay exports, apples, logs, wine and meat spring to mind. But there’s a whole lot more to our exports than just primary production.
In this article we meet four lesser known Hawke’s Bay and East Coast exporters, all finalists in the recent Export NZ ASB Hawke’s Bay Export Awards.
Brebner Print: Stamp of Approval
With email and electronic payments delivering a king hit to letter volumes worldwide, only a gambler would place a bet on producing postage stamps as a sustainable and long term business strategy.
But that’s exactly what Taradale’s Brebner Print has done. The Hawke’s Bay founded business, now part of Blue Star Group, has become one of only three globally recognised high quality stamp producers, and now exports postage stamps to many countries around the world.
