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Woolworths opens to much fanfare
It’s now down to the business of shopping after hundreds gathered for the opening of Taupō’s new Woolworths on Thursday last week, nearly 64 years after the original Woolworths Taupō store opened.
A rapid ascent to the finals
Tongariro River Rafting is a finalist in two categories of the 2025 New Zealand Tourism Awards.
Key Person Insurance
In business, people are often the most valuable asset.
Site chosen for ‘supercritical’ geothermal exploration
A site at Rotokawa, north of Taupō has been chosen for the country’s first supercritical geothermal exploration well.
Packaging insurance
As there are many facets to insurance it’s easy to get bewildered about what you need and don’t need and what’s even available out there. That’s where your licensed insurance adviser is qualified to provide the cut through you need.
Power plant upgrade nears completion
Mercury Energy is close to completing a $220 million project at its Ngā Tamariki geothermal power station just north of Taupō.
Something old, something new
Opening today, the rebuilt Woolworths Taupō Central store on the corner of Spa Road and Tongariro Street may be new from the ground up but on one wall there is still a piece of the store’s 64-year history.
Taupō dairy factory in surprise sale
In a what is being described by one of the players as an opportunity that happened quickly, Mōkai-based dairy company Miraka is being sold to Open Country Dairy.
OCR now at 3%
What a difference a year makes with 2.5% shaved off the OCR in 12 months since August 2024.
Baking up a storm
Sharing a few recipes with friends has turned into a full time job and millions of fans for Taupō woman Anna Cameron. Anna, aka ‘Just a Mum’ has had 5.1 million views on Facebook, 400,000 on Instagram and 700,000 on TikTok in the last 28 days alone.
Hats off to Taupō’s top restaurants
Taupō has earned five listings in the 2025 edition of the Cuisine Good Food Guide — an independent guide showcasing New Zealand’s outstanding talent and hottest venues.
Village vision takes shape
Developers of a proposed grocery and shopping complex at Kinloch say long standing family ties with the lakeside settlement and a desire to create a high-quality hub for the growing community are major drivers for the project.
Paving the way
A Taupō teenager is designing an app that will help those in wheelchairs and mobility scooters to identify the best and worst aspects of accessibility in the towns they live in.
Health Insurance – the good oil
Health insurance in New Zealand is designed to complement the public system, not replace it
Control Gates Bridge project recognised
A project to protect Taupō’s Control Gates Bridge has won a regional infrastructure award.
Best in the business
Taupō’s best businesses have been announced at a sold-out gala dinner on Friday night.
Disability and Trauma Insurance – the serious stuff
While we go about insuring our lives and income so others are taken care of if something happens to us, there’s also our own needs to think of in the event we are no longer able to function as we once did.
Income protection, mortgage insurance and ACC
Life can be fickle, one day on top of the world and the next we’re laid up with an illness or injury that compromises our ability to earn, or our job itself redundant, and often not of our own making.
Turning up the heat
The Government has announced plans to map geothermal resources in the Taupō Volcanic Zone as part of a goal to double geothermal energy production by 2040.
Life insurance, how much do we need?
No good financial plan is complete without a robust insurance package that takes care of things when we need it to.
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