The Wanganui Chronicle is indeed pleased to have been given the opportunity to be one of the major sponsors of the Wanganui Business Awards.

By celebrating local business success and excellence in this way, encourages all local businesses to aspire to improving their service, output, profile and future success.

The Wanganui Chronicle has a proud publishing history [in it's 148th year of publication] as one of Wanganui's longest established businesses, and the country’s oldest newspaper.

In 2003, The Chronicle won several prestigious international awards, including PANPA [Pacific Area Newspaper Publishers Assn], Newspaper of The Year, Norske Skog Premier Marketing Award, and Pride In Print Gold Medal Award for Print Excellence.

The River City's future is dependant on the success of the business sector, so we shouldn't be shy about celebrating our business successes, and Wanganui Business collectively have much to be proud off.

Congratulations to the local business leaders who have had the foresight and vision to launch the Wanganui Business Awards. We wish you every success for the inaugural awards, and our pledge of ongoing support for such a worthy initiative.

Andy Jarden
General Manager
Wanganui Chronicle