A Better Place To Expand Your Business

For immediate release
19 April 2012

A Better Place To Expand Your Business

Two announcements this week have made Kapiti a better place to expand your business if it’s already located in Kapiti, and relocate your business to Kapiti if you are working from elsewhere in the Wellington region.

TelstraClear has launched New Zealand’s fastest broadband service for Kapiti residential customers, running at 100Mbs download. This is coming ahead of the government-backed broadband roll out. Prime Minister John Key’s trade visit to Indonesia has opened up direct flights between Indonesia and Auckland. Kapiti Coast Airport at Paraparaumu has direct flights to Auckland, so we now have a very close link to an Indonesian market serving a population of 245 million.

We want to talk to local residents who commute to work in Wellington. We want them to tell their boss to “consider Kapiti”. Kapiti already has all the lifestyle attractions offered by our unique coastal communities and the urban services needed by working families. The faster broadband service and better air links come on top of a $95m double tracking to the commuter rail and the proposed $2 billion expressway between Wellington and Levin

This broadband expressway will allow greater growth of smart home-based businesses and for Wellington-based businesses to allow their staff to continue to live and work in Kapiti instead of wasting productive time having to commute to Wellington.

Air New Zealand’s daily flights from Paraparaumu to Auckland means any gains made by Auckland Airport has the potential to benefit Kapiti. Indonesia’s Garuda Airlines direct flights to Auckland has opened up another huge potential for local businesses and for Kapiti Landing – the business park located at the airport.

Other Benefits to Relocation to the Kapiti Coast

2010 BERL Report – The average labour productivity of workers here is higher with the average worker producing 3.7 times as much GDP as their personal incomes in 2006 compared to 3.2 times for Wellington Urban.

Bayley’s 2010 Leasing Trends for Wellington and Kapiti Coast show the trend starting in the lower half per sq metre in comparison with the rest of Wellington.

Jeff Smith, Business Growth Manager
Nature Coast Enterprise

ENDS

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