Business Award Winners for 2024

Finalists and winners at the 2024 Richardson’s Hauraki Coromandel Business Awards

Category Excellence Awards

Supreme Winner

The Waterworks

Community Contribution

Winners: Dive Zone Whitianga and EPL Construction (joint winners)

Finalists: Evolution Fitness, Major Oak Safety Training, Wāhi Tukurua

Business Resilience

Winner: Hello World Travel Thames

Finalists: Centre Line Construction, Professional Trade Services

Digital Strategy and e-Commerce

Winner: Flowers on Pollen

Finalists: Mom Store, The Waterworks

Waste Minimisation

Winner:  Tukurua

Finalists: Buffalo Lodge, Gastronomics

Contribution to Tourism and Hospitality

Winner: The Waterworks

Finalists: Coromandel Distilling Co, Thames Museum – Te Whare Taonga o te Kauaeranga, Valley Tours and Transfers

People’s Choice Finalists (two winners – one of Hauraki, one from Thames-Coromandel)

Winner: Woof Woof Ranch (Hauraki) and Dive Zone Whitianga (Thames-Coromandel)

Finalists: Plan Bee, Waihī Coffee Roasters, Bite Café Thames, The Green Grocer

 Service to Business Recipients

Barbara Berry, Positive Paeroa

Jennifer Ashman, Coromandel-Colville Business Association

Monika Lange, Thames/Coromandel Newsfeed

Sue Lewis-O’Halloran, Thames Business Association

Sector Excellence Awards

New and Emerging Business

Winner:  Opito Bay Salt

Finalists: Fitzone Waihī, Pahi Coastal Walk, Te Kouma Heights Glamping

Consumer Services

Winner: Coromandel Shelly Beach Top10 Holiday Park

Finalists: Flowers on Pollen, Mercury Bay Discoveries

Professional Services

Winner:  Bayleys Real Estate, Coromandel Peninsula

Finalists: Beside the Seaside, Woof Woof Ranch

Trades, Manufacturing and Primary Industries

Winner: Major Oak Safety Training

Finalists: Coromandel Distilling Co, EPL Construction

Pahiki Māori/Māori Business

Winner: Evolution Fitness

Finalists: Manavation