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An enduring landmark on the Central Coast Highway at Erina opposite Fountain Plaza is the big red drive-in BRISTOL PAINT CENTRE. It's been there for over 20 years! However, the Bristol Paints story goes back to 1985 when three young blokes decided to go into business together! Brian (Longie) Long and John Murray (the remaining directors) have grown Bristol Paints from these humble beginnings to become the largest and most successful independent paint retailer on the Central Coast....

It could be assumed that most companies who developed a marketing strategy for this year, did not account for a global health crisis. Many were thrust into the melting pot of chaos sparked by the intense upheaval of COVID-19. GBD Lifestyle Marketers, a Central Coast agency, quickly adapted and in response to their retirement client Ingenia Lifestyle, produced a sensitive creative campaign to cut through the fear and alarm in the market. Ingenia briefed GBD on developing an inspiring, futu...

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...