Cyclone Gabrielle: who's profiting from the Hawke's Bay rebuild?

Cyclone Gabrielle: who's profiting from the Hawke's Bay rebuild?
The damage to Brookfields bridge outside Napier on Feb 19. (Image: Getty)
Riley Kennedy
Cyclone Gabrielle ripped much of the North Island's East Coast to pieces. Critical infrastructure was brought down, creating a pipeline of years’ worth of work to rebuild. In the second part of BusinessDesk's series on the Hawke's Bay recovery, we look at who might profit from its aftermath.Gavin O’Connor admitted that if you were a roading contractor in Hawke’s Bay towards the end of last year, things were looking a bit quiet.“The forward outlook wasn’t looking all that healthy. There were project...

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