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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...

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...

North Construction & Building has ranked as one of the best places to work in Australia.  North were ranked number 17 on the 2020 Best Places to Work study in the 100-999 employee category and received their award at Great Place to Work Australia's virtual award presentation in late July. Tuggerah based North is a 100% employee-owned commercial construction company. 39,156 Australian-based employees from 124 companies participated in the benchmarking study, making North...

Gosford based company OneBlink, who develops and markets software that's used by government and enterprise customers to create customised business applications, has been selected to participate in this year's Global Landing Pad (DGLP) program run by the Denver (Colorado) Economic Development Corporation. OneBlink was selected from amongst 50 international applications to be part of this year's cohort of 15 companies. The DLGP program supports start-up or scale-up companies...