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Building resilience, spending millions on cyclone recovery

WATCH: Hawke’s Bay businesses are spending big to recover from Cyclone Gabrielle. Are they prepared for the next one?

WATCH: NBR explores the costly rebuild from Cyclone Gabrielle.

Key points
  • What’s at stake: Business survival and recovery in Hawke’s Bay after Cyclone Gabrielle last year.
  • Background: Billions of dollars of damage after Cyclone Gabrielle ripped through New Zealand, causing widespread damage, death, and destruction.
  • Main players: Pan Pac, Tony Clifford, Ziwi, Stuart Irvine, Ravensdown, Tony Gray. 

Cyclone Gabrielle destroyed lives, properties, and treasured belongings, and it put the Hawke’s Bay's big businesses out of action – with huge repair costs. 

Pulp and lumber producer Pan Pac, situated north of Napier, was unrecognisable when mucky water and silt covered the area – leaving a

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Jonathan Mitchell Wed, 20 Nov 2024
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Key points
  • What’s at stake: Business survival and recovery in Hawke’s Bay after Cyclone Gabrielle last year.
  • Background: Billions of dollars of damage after Cyclone Gabrielle ripped through New Zealand, causing widespread damage, death, and destruction.
  • Main players: Pan Pac, Tony Clifford, Ziwi, Stuart Irvine, Ravensdown, Tony Gray. 
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