Winners at the 2014 Capital Awards

Here’s our stori­fied cov­er­age live from the Cap­i­tal Awards because we’re too lazy to type it all out. Hope­ful­ly this is still acces­si­ble. [View the sto­ry “Win­ners at the Cap­i­tal Awards” on Stori­fy]

Nominees for the 2014 Capital Awards

This after­noon we popped down to Vivo for the annouc­ing of nom­i­nees in the 2014 Cap­i­tal Awards ‑Welling­ton’s pre­mier hos­pi­tal­i­ty awards. It was a pret­ty casu­al affair, with many of the nom­i­nees hard at work and there­fore unable to front to receive their cer­tifi­cates. Still though, it was great see­ing so many Welling­ton­ista favourites get […]

We’ll be WOWed for another nine years

This morn­ing it was announced that the World of Wear­able Arts has signed a con­tract with Welling­ton for the next nine years. That’s great news. WOW might not be your cup of tea, but it’s a big boost to our hos­pi­tal­i­ty and retail sec­tors (worth more than $15.1 mil­lion, appar­ent­ly). Sure, friends who work in […]