Chris Wilkinson
speaker
53 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 11 Aug
Chris Wilkinson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And that third is people wanting to uh regain control in life and self employment.
Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
We're seeing it across all the communities we work with around New Zealand and overseas as well.
Well, a as a lot of these big contracts start to wind up, these guys are coming out of those or guys and girls coming out of these projects and going, What are we gonna do?
Starting up their own businesses is really one of the only choices they have.
Yeah.
It's significantly.
And in the provinces we're seeing a lot more immigrants um opening businesses
street businesses, service businesses, those types of things.
Is this bullish?
Are you, you know, fizzed up by this?
Oh look, I think it's positive.
I I always find it positive when we're working in a place and see someone who's open to business um and they want to make a go of it where other people didn't see those opportunities.
Yeah, look, interesting, Mike.
Hospo was down just, but before that it was down 2%.
You know, we're seeing some really interesting trends going on.
People are spending less on hairdressing, less on beauty products.
Well, if everyone likes a hairdo, you don't know.
You've got to feel good.
And that's one of the things that does drive the economy.
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