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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.
Supercharging the local economy
The Taupō District Council has provided figures showing the impact of the ITM Taupō Super 440 leg of the Repco Supercars Championship in April this year.
Taupō builders claim regional awards
Taupō firm Beck Building has won the Supreme House of the Year in the Bay of Plenty and Central Plateau Master Builders House of the Year Awards.
Spotlight on Insurance
Insurance, in one form or another, can be traced as far back as 1750 BC, through medieval times and to modern insurance as we know it evolving from 17th century traders and the advent of mortality tables … it’s been around a long time.
Geothermal potential unleashed
Taupō will be a hotbed of geothermal business activity later this month.
The role of non-bank lenders
While NZ trading banks are all regulated by the Reserve Bank of NZ (RBNZ) in relation to their codes of practise, not so non-bank lenders, with some exceptions.
Renovation and green energy loans
As renovations can range from a simple facelift to a full makeover inside and out with structural changes, so too can the loans that can make it happen.
Finals fever for top businesses
The Taupō Business Chamber has officially announced the finalists for the 2025 Unison Great Lake Taupō Business Awards.
Wake up - it’s business time!
There’s been a lot going on this week with a bit of a refresh of the paper’s design, new publishing systems to learn, and even a sponsorship deal with the business awards.
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