2011 Acknowledgements
Resilience
Canterbury Television (CTV)
Staff lost 60%. Equipment 95%. Building 100%.
Used own and outside expertise to relocate and re-equip to broadcast increased local content nationwide within 6 weeks of Feb 22.
Leech & Partners
Located in the PGC building resulted in loss and trauma for this team yet they braved the odds; signing a long term lease within 2 days and re-opening within 3 weeks.
Sandford Industries Ltd
Seven weeks into new ownership, the earthquake struck and through perseverance, determination, good staff and loyal customers, this small company have not only survived, they have grown, rebranded, launched the website and employed 4 new staff.
The Press
Never missing an issue despite being right in the middle of the Country's biggest natural disaster, beating the odds and ensuring Canterbury people were kept informed.
University of Canterbury
Heavily impacted, a temporary campus was created within days ensuring 95% of their students were retained, while also dealing with the significant damage to the University's infrastructure.
Creativity
Ballantynes
An iconic, traditional Canterbury business, Ballantynes may have lost use of its flagship store on February 22, but through innovation and creative thinking, it never lost touch with its customers.
Canterbury Cheesemongers
After losing their building in September, they reopened in the Arts Centre, only to be closed down again in February for a further two months. Through this upheaval, this small company came up with innovative and creative measures to retain their loyal customer base and keep their business going.
City Care Limited
City Care's hardworking and committed employees positioned the company well to react to the September and February earthquakes and continual aftershocks.
Procope Coffee House & Cruz Nightclub
Creative thinking has led to an innovative response to ensure these two local businesses continuing to prosper.
Leadership
Andrew Boyle – The Press
An extraordinary display of leadership for his team at a time of crisis, while continuing to ensure that Cantabrians were kept informed through their daily newspaper.
Bowron Sheepskins
Suffering major damage and initial concern about whether they could recover, outstanding leadership and a hardworking team transformed the site and were up and running within 3 weeks s.
Christchurch International Airport
Extraordinary efforts to ensure that a key piece of infrastructure was operational as soon as possible, allowing the swift entry of emergency personnel and services, and the relocation of injured people and stranded travellers.
CPIT
Showing strong leadership and dedication to Canterbury, CPIT overcame challenges to quickly resume its 2011 academic programme and is currently implementing new collaborative training initiatives to ensure the successful rebuild of Canterbury.
Orion New Zealand Ltd
Christchurch and central Canterbury electricity network Orion has worked tirelessly in extreme conditions to restore essential electricity infrastructure to a region facing its biggest natural disaster.
Team Hutchinson Ford
Determination, strong leadership and partnerships ensured Team Hutchinson Ford will remain in the CBD.
Exporting
Elastomer Products Ltd
Despite significant quake damage to its infrastructure, the tight knit Elastomer team has rallied together to ensure its large customer base, local and international, remains fully supplied and all local employment positions remain secure.
Kelford Cams
Severe damage and disruption was a serious threat to their business. They concentrated their focus on relocating to new premises, establishing contact with key customers and meeting the quick turnaround demands of business.
Lyttelton Port Company Ltd
The resilience of the Port to recommence operations quickly after each earthquake ensuring Canterbury received vital supplies.
ACC Staff Wellbeing
Atlantic Pacific American Express (APX)
The local APX team are strongly supported nationally. Senior management personally delivered supplies by van from Wellington to all staff, offered places to stay, travel vouchers and support.
Meridian Energy
Putting their people first was a priority for Meridian through strong support and making their electricians and engineers available for staff's homes.
Pernod Ricard New Zealand
Providing food and water parcels to every employee, an engineer to check staff houses, counselling and a break away for families.