A New Year’s resolution to ditch the single-use takeaway cups is putting Indi’s on the track to being a zero waste café.
And owner Miles Ratima was prepared to take a loss in profits for what he sees is an environmental necessity.
“I started to see more cups in the gutters, falling out of rubbish bins and I realised I was the problem. I don’t want to give people the waste,” he says. Keep Reading
Raglan HQ, the high-end coworking space at 13A Wallis St, recently celebrated its first year in business. Workers at the shared office have enjoyed building an inclusive, dynamic culture in this bright and open space. It has become the perfect hub for freelancers, small business owners and employees wanting to cut the commute.
Within this network of over 20 diverse colleagues, business collaborations, ride-shares and spontaneous fruit-picking all coexist in one place.
The eclectic group of people who share the space range from financial advisors to fencing businesses, from lawyers to auditors and researchers to excavation specialists. Keep Reading
What can we say?! We had the idea of making trinkets and treasures and signed a two-year lease with the attitude ‘let’s see what happens’. Youth! That was 21 years ago!
Look at us now; Show Off has become very social (thanks to all of you), cosy and relaxing and a wonderful space to work. We’ve become renowned and highly regarded for our pounamu and work with some of the best carvers in New Zealand. Keep Reading
It’s not often there’s a festive air and corks are popped at the closing of a business, but then Matapihi Art Gallery – which shut its doors for the final time last Sunday – was no normal retail outlet.
While the dozen or so fabric and glass artists, painters, printers, jewellers, weavers and sculptors at the closing-down party lamented losing their collective space at the upper end of the CBD, all were grateful for the opportunity they’d had to show and sell their work locally over the past decade. Keep Reading
Raglan’s newest eatery La La Land opened its doors recently offering a bounty of tasty treats for the discerning sweet tooth with plenty vegan and gluten-free options.
Selling organic, fair trade chocolate from master chocolate makers around New Zealand, including Whaingaroa’s own Raglan Chocolate, Honest chocolate from Matakana, Hogarth from Nelson, Swiss Bliss from Matakana and She Universe from Christchurch, owner Monika Suchecka is very pleased with the reception she has had so far. Keep Reading
You can get a drink at the bar of the latest business to open downtown – but it won’t be competing for custom with the Harbour View Hotel next door.
That’s because Lifted, which opened its doors last weekend in the old Mousey Brown hair salon premises in Bow St, is a reformer Pilates studio and health bar where you can enjoy a chia pod and smoothie rather than a bowl of fries and a beer.
For Raglan-raised Raph Henderson and partner Eden Pollock – both back home in New Zealand after seven years in Perth – the venture is something of a dream-turned-reality. Keep Reading
Midwinter is not the best time of year for beachside businesses, but one Raglan retailer is right in the pink.
Not only has she more than doubled the size of her once cram-jammed gift shop Zinnia on the corner of Electric Avenue, but Marie Nicholls has re-used the shelving from the old video store into which she expanded last week – and painted it pink. Keep Reading
The Raglan Surf Co is the third local business to come under the attack of a ram-raid/theft in the Raglan CBD this year. The local surf shop was hit last Tuesday 22 May at 3am. After reviewing CCTV footage, Police confirmed that the vehicle used in the ram-raid was one of four vehicles stolen from Huntly late Monday night (May 21).
The current string of burglaries started in February with FallenFront, who was hit three times in a row, followed by the Surf Emporium at the beginning of May.
Business owners and community members are pushing authorities for an immediate solution to the late night crime. Keep Reading
Raglan Surf Emporium was hit by burglars last Thursday in a smash-and-grab style robbery that has hit the town four times over the past three months.
Fallenfront, across the road from the Surf Emporium, was a target of three of the four robberies that police believe may be linked.
Owner John (JC) Clapham says Raglan is being seen as a soft target by offenders looking to quickly on-sell popular lines of street and surf clothing and other branded items. Keep Reading
Trade Aid Whaingaroa Raglan celebrates World Fair Trade Day on Saturday May 12 from 9am-5pm with a global feast and the addition of some local flavour.
This year store manager Donna McGough is offering a sample of dishes created with a selection of delicious fair trade, organic and artisan-created food products sold in the shop, including a taste testing of Trade Aid olive oil and Ruapuke Artisan Bread.
The connection between Trade Aid and the tiniest bread shop in the Waikato goes back around five years when Jenny Carter approached former Trade Aid manager Lisa Thomson to use the front section of the store’s storage corridor. Keep Reading