Bridget Snelling

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60 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 29 Jul

Bridget Snelling’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Well, look, I mean, I think we can be really positive about these results, actually.

We are, as you said, up 8.6% year-on-year for small business sales, and that is the strongest quarter that we've seen in almost four years.

So we can celebrate the result, but you're right, it is a bit of a two-speed recovery, unfortunately.

Well, that's right.

And I think we know agri is up 16.3%, which is a really strong result.

But of course, you know, agri is a sector that's had some benefits with export prices and the Fonterra payout.

So we can expect agri would be propping up that recovery.

But it is really pleasing to see that, you know, we are up across the board for many industries.

So construction is up 11%, manufacturing 8.6%.

Even retail up 6.4%.

And hospo, which is obviously an industry that's really struggled, still struggling, but has gone up 2.9%.

So while it's behind the other sectors, it's still pleasing to see that there is some growth.

Well, you know, the data comes through our platform.

It's aggregated and anonymised.

So it is real data.

It's real retail data.

So we know that this figure is true.

But I guess we can look at the regional differences and that does tell a little bit of a different story.

We've got the South Island really winning this one.

Canterbury up 12.3% year on year.

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