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...

While COVID-19 has had a dampening effect on retail and hospitality businesses the Brand Group, owners of Fountain Plaza Erina have confirmed their confidence in the future with the installation of a new $200,000 fountain at the Plaza. The new fountain was designed and built by local pond builder Anything Wet (see later). Since its opening in the late 1980s Fountain Plaza, on the corner of Central Coast Highway and Karalta Road, leading to Erina Fair, has become an iconic commercial cen...

Ninety new jobs are on offer after major construction finished at the NSW Government's $300 million dollar Kangy Angy Rail Maintenance Facility.  The purpose-built facility will service and maintain the New Intercity Fleet trains, with around six kilometres of electric rail lines seven-tracks across at its widest, access roads, offices and amenities. Minister for Transport Andrew Constance says testing of the facility will continue ahead of the introduction of the New Intercity...