8 | Saito Labels & Tags Kim Newth Saito shines at business awards WESTPAC AUCKLAND BUSINESS AWARDS Leading New Zealand manufacturer Saito Labels & Tags is proud to have won recognition for their out of the box strategic thinking at the 2022 Westpac Auckland Business Awards (Central). The prestigious awards’ event is a highlight of Auckland’s business calendar, bringing together businesses to showcase talent, innovation and creativity. This year’s awards were hotly contested, attracting many very high-quality entries. The Saito team was honoured to attend the awards’ celebration in November as a finalist in the Strategy & Planning category. “It was a big surprise for us to be nominated in the first place and being chosen as a finalist was just incredible,” says Sarah Spencer, CEO – Director of Focus at Saito. “I’m so proud that the business my father [Gavin Hodder] started more than 35 years ago has been able to reach this level of recognition against such incredible ideas and innovations.” From warehouse racking barcode labels to tags and media for challenging operating environments such as freezers, construction materials and timber or providing product that has been manufactured in the tightly controlled HACCP hub where the air itself is treated for pathogens ensuring certainty for its customers in healthcare or food manufacturing, Saito’s forte is delivering streamlined workflow systems that increase productivity, efficiency and ease of process. “We’re a very solutions-focussed business. We look at what our clients are trying to achieve and then dive into our toolbox to create a unique solution, custom designed to achieve exactly what they need and delivering big savings in the process.” At the awards’ celebration, Saito stood out as a New Zealand owned and operated manufacturing company in a field largely dominated by digital and technology enterprises. The company’s success has been built on three core principles: people, planet and profit. By effectively balancing these principles, Saito continues to flourish as a growing, vibrant and creative business powerhouse. Manufacturing is located at Hauraki District Council’s industrial park in Kerepehi, where Saito’s new $4m factory embodies the company’s commitment to ‘making tomorrow better, today’. Constructed from materials that are both local and celebrate New Zealand innovation, it is built with Formsteel product that reduced their carbon footprint by 25%. The For all your engineering requirements. General Design and Developments Stainless Work Maintenance Factory Fit Out’s 0800 8299753 WWW.HANES.CO.NZ
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