After 15 years operating as George Brand Terrigal-Toukley, Andre and Samantha Kubecka are re-launching their real estate business as Brand Property and exiting the George Brand Real Estate Group. Mr Kubecka said that during the COVID-19 pandemic when local agencies were forced to lay off employees, Brand Property were actually in a position to employ extra staff to help service their growing business. "Our business has doubled in size over the past four years and during the COVID-1...

North Gosford performance boat builder, McConaghy, reports that their latest build, a 44-foot custom designed sailing boat, completed in June and shipped to their customer in the US East Coast, finished 2nd on corrected time in its first Rhode Island regatta last month. Designed by acclaimed US America's Cup designer Harry Dunning the high performance racing yacht took ten months to build and is one of many Harry Dunning designs built by McConaghy over many years. Built from carbon ...

Roses Only, Australia's largest online flower seller sees the Central Coast and the Lower Hunter as a significant growth area over the next five years and has set up a distribution centre at West Gosford to service the area. Chairman and major shareholder, Jack Singleton, said that the location in Enterprise Close, West Gosford to service the region was a decision based on data that showed the Central Coast was the ninth biggest market in Australia and growing, and as a distribution c...

2020 a difficult year but more to come We started 2020 with bushfires, although we dodged a bullet there it could have been catastrophic.  This was followed by storms in early February that caused a lot of damage and beach erosion and by the end of the month COVID19 had hit and we were all self isolating. Somehow we have dodged a bullet on COVID19 as well, and while retail and hospitality businesses are suffering most of the businesses that CCBR has spoken to are doing okay. The ...

Ian Lamont lives by the rule of 72. The chartered accountant, business adviser and founder of the LWM Group in Gosford says this simple yet highly effective rule, which involves joint venture investments in hand-picked commercial property, is central to the long-term financial success and prosperity of every one of his clients, as well as his own. A man of great integrity and strong work ethics who has lived and breathed accounting for almost fifty years, Ian is a firm believer in treat...