McMillan Drilling Limited
McMillan Drilling Ltd is Canterbury's largest drilling company. Based in Southbridge, 50km south of Christchurch they drill water wells, conduct exploration drilling, environmental and industrial drilling and provide water analysis and laboratory services.
Partnering for Profit
In 1962 it was a small beginning : just the two of them and a small rented factory on Montreal Street. But by 1984, when Dave Down and partner Vince Proctor sold the major share of Davin Industries, it was a multi-million dollar business with around 150 staff.
St Helena
Canterbury's First Winery
It all started because of a disaster. When in 1977 brothers Robin and Norman Mundy discovered that their Coutts Island potato crop was infested with a nematode cyst, they took the unprecendented step of converting the entire potato farm into a vineyard and thus establishing Canterbury's first winery.
Whale Watch Kaikoura Limited
A world leader in tourism
Whale Watch Kaikoura is a Ngai Tahu owned Tourism company which takes people to visit whales in their natural enviroment off the Kaikoura coastline. The company's business grew dramatically from small and humble beginnings.
