West Gosford online wedding and special occasions personalised gift store has joined the elite AFR Fast 100 club being placed 61st among Australia’s fastest growing businesses in 2021. What started off ten years ago as a good idea has mushroomed into a $10 million business with over 60 employees that is as much an online retail business as a manufacturing business. Melissa Wilkinson, an industrial designer, was looking to buy personalised wedding gifts for some friends who were gettin...

Heatherbrae’s Pies has opened a new restaurant, the third, at Ourimbah on the Pacific Highway just a few kilometres north of the Ourimbah Interchange and within two days customers have been swarming in. When interviewed by CCBR, Founder Russell Cox said, “I can’t believe it. I thought it would take a few months before people knew we were here. Obviously they have been watching and waiting for the doors to open.” Established in 2001 at Heatherbrae, on the roundabout a...

It's been a long time coming but persistence has paid off on the part of CCBR and the Gosford Erina Business Chamber with the NSW Government announcing a commitment of $18 million for a new University campus in Mann Street, Gosford. Saturday morning of the long weekend saw NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet MP, NSW Treasurer Matt Kean, Minister for Infrastructure, Cities and Active Transport Rob Stokes and Parliamentary Secretary for the Central Coast Adam Crouch in Gosford to make the announ...

The property investment arm of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church, which owns the Sanitarium Health Food Company, has acquired a warehouse and distribution hub at 3 Sanitarium Close, Berkeley Vale located adjacent to the Sanitarium manufacturing facility and national warehouse paying $55 million. The property is currently leased by third-party logistics giant Linfox as a food-services distribution centre servicing the raw materials and finished stock from Mars Food Australia on a 30 years leas...

John Singleton’s confidence in the future of the Central Coast continues as he recently unveiled his latest investment plans for the Central Coast with a luxury boutique hotel at Mt White and restoring the former Hawkesbury Inn to its former glory as well as a 40-60 room motel alongside the Elanora Hotel at East Gosford. With the first stage of his long term plans for the boutique lodge having been approved by Central Coast Council, Mr Singleton aims to proceed with what he calls a &...