Father and son team, Rob and Kevin Haines operate the family owned business, Haines Gas Services Pty Limited at Erina. Established on the Central Coast in 1977 and now in their 42nd year, the business has a very strong loyal client following, solid staff retention levels and the opportunity to expand nationally if they desire. This story explores the Haines Gas Services journey and highlights how strategic decision-making, including knowing when to say no, has helped this company earn ...

It has seemingly been forever thus. The Central Coast, an hour north of Sydney with a current population of 340,000 which the NSW Planning Department has decreed will grow by another 70,000 in the next 20 years, is always left on the sidelines when it comes to sharing in the state's budgets. Always neglected except at election times when premiers, prime ministers and sundry ministers punch the coordinates into their GPS gadgets and find their way to our region. Like the three w...

Committed to service excellence for more than 35 years They say moving house is one of life's most stressful events. Chris and Karen Coulson have built a successful furniture removal and storage company by turning this and other key pain points around to look after customers and their goods like no other. Right from the start, they have observed and listened to what customers want and, importantly, what they don't want, and evolved their business model to suit. As Karen said, &...

Property developer, Central Real, has broken ground on the Coast's newest residential development located in prestigious Point Frederick, pushing the project ahead of schedule to meet a market demand on the Coast. The development, Peninsula Point Frederick, on a 5,114 sqm block on the corner of Albany and Duke Streets will comprise 96 luxury apartments in three boutique buildings each of four storeys. Central Real CEO, Richard Ellis, said the project was brought forward due to ...

Architectural image of proposed ING call centre building at North Wyong Central Coast property developer Gibbens Group have lodged a Development Application with Central Coast Council for a 4-storey office building at 4 Dulmison Avenue, Wyong (on the edge of the North Wyong Industrial Estate). The building, with a construction cost of around $11 million will comprise a total gross floor area of 5,519 sqm on a 12,268 sqm site and will include a ground floor café and outdoor g...