As we move towards Christmas it is that time of year that we reflect on the year that has been and the new year that is heading towards us.  It has been a great year for Focus!  Moving into our new offices, taking on new management staff to free up Barbara & Craig and...

We are excited to have Erina join our leadership team in the role of Assistant Manager/Pastoral Care.  Erina now works alongside Lim, our Logistics Manager, managing the day to day needs of the business.  Whilst Lim takes care of HR and logistics, Erina looks after eve...

What an exciting last few months it has been for us and our team!

52 of our staff had an amazing day in the snow, which ended with us visiting Lake Rotoiti to feed the eels.  It really was a wonderful day.

Craig and 22 of our staff went along to the All Blacks game...

We are so excited we have been 10 years in business that we will definitely be celebrating such a huge milestone!!  But, not only that, we have finally moved into our own offices!!  Yes, double exciting!!  Still in the setup phase, so no pictures yet sorry.  Once all t...

As a bid to be eco-friendly and gain efficiency when our supervisors are moving around the vineyards, we are currently trialing an electric bike.  The supervisors are loving the bike, so it looks like we might be off to the bike store to buy more!  We will give it anot...

We are looking at an early harvest this year and right now we are feeling very positive about it.  Our prediction is that it could start as early as late February, the fruit will be good and there will be a smaller crop than we have previously experienced.   We believe...

We are really excited to have finally finished the renovations on one of our rental properties that our overseas staff live in whilst working/living here in NZ.  It really is important to us that our staff have a clean, safe and healthy home to live in and these renova...

We are over half way through the pruning season and a million vines have already been done thanks to the Focus team. There is still a shortage of labour in Marlborough, however, we are doing the best we can and are expecting the pruning to be finished early October....

Despite all of the issues the Marlborough region faced with harvest, Wine Marlborough only reported a decrease of 9%.    Insert from their Vintage report:  Marlborough harvested 302,396 tonnes of grapes this year, which was 79% of the national crop, according to the Ne...

We are really excited to be one of the first businesses to not only be using Cohelix, but to work with Cohelix by using their system and providing feedback and recommendations.   Cohelix (check out www.cohelix.co.nz) is a cloud based employment documentation platform t...