Hamilton Investment Prospectus Document
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Welcome to HAMILTON CITY OF GROWTH, OPPORTUNITY AND INNOVATION November 2016 CITY OF GROWTH Hamilton is a modern, innovative city, with affordable living costs and hardly any traffic jams. Business is thriving. Hamilton’s economy is prosperous and diverse, contributing around 3.4 per cent of the national GDP. We’re home to some of New Zealand’s most innovative and export-driven companies and research institutes at Waikato Innovation Park and beyond. Hamilton is also one of a few places in the country with a growing working age population. Hamilton has an abundance of parks, playgrounds, river walkways, a world-class zoo and the internationally award-winning Hamilton Gardens. Hamilton has a great cafe culture, a range of quality restaurants, a flourishing arts scene and is only a short distance to ski fields and beaches. We’re home to some of New Zealand’s leading educational institutes, hospital, top sporting facilities. Above all, Hamilton is committed to attracting the best and brightest to our city – wherever you’re from. We’re an attractive, welcoming and diverse city that celebrates achievement, creativity, innovation and lifestyle. 2 3 CITY OF GROWTH Hamilton is one of New Zealand’s fastest growing cities. Here’s why... Global connections Hamilton’s a low-cost place to do business Our proximity to international ports and New Zealand’s busiest Land and office space are plentiful, prices and rents are moderate, international airport mean we’re highly connected to the rest and the cost of living is low compared to Auckland. of the world. Our communications network is exceptional with Gigabit Fibre available throughout the city. Gigabit Fibre offers speeds of up to 1Gbps for downloading, meaning you Access to a skilled workforce and a growing can download 100 5MB songs in two seconds - regular ADSL youthful population broadband would take one hour! Every year there are hundreds of brilliant graduates and trade- trained specialists from The University of Waikato, Waikato We’re an economic powerhouse Institute of Technology, and Te Waananga o Aotearoa. Many would love nothing better than to keep making Hamilton We’re home to many innovative and export-driven companies. Our their home while contributing their skills and labour to a local diverse economy is based on manufacturing, health, education, enterprise. and a growing freight and logistics sector. The surrounding region’s agriculture base includes agricultural manufacturing, sheep, beef and goat farming as well as dairy. A city for families It’s all here: great primary, intermediate and high schools, university and tertiary providers, neighbourhood and destination playgrounds, Australasia’s largest base hospital, a wide range of affordable housing options and beautiful urban and rural locations to discover and enjoy. 4 COROMANDEL WHITIANGA AUCKLAND THAMES International Airport Approximate journey times 127km, 1hr 15min drive from Hamilton’s central city. MORRINSVILLE TAURANGA RAGLAN CAMBRIDGE HAMILTON 105km, 1hr 20min drive TE AWAMUTU Airport ROTORUA 15km, 18min drive 105km, 1hr 20min drive TAUPO 155km, 1hr 50min drive 5 CITY OF GROWTH You’re in good company here. Hamilton is home to some of the world’s most innovative Fonterra has a major (and growing) presence, and businesses. That means more jobs for talented people, Waikato Tainui’s $3b Ruakura Inland Port will soon attract greater opportunities for those with vision, and a powerful even more businesses and create thousands of new jobs. network of like-minded people and organisations. Looking for scale? You’ll find it here. New Zealand is consistently ranked among the top 5 Forbes ‘Best Countries for Business’ list. It was No. 1 in 2012 and No. 2 in 2015. $ 70% 3 of Waikato Innovation billion Park’s companies are Ruakura Inland exporters Port coming soon 6 Hamilton has a higher proportion of knowledge Hamilton’s technology investment companies intensive employees than Auckland and generated almost $566m in revenue and created New Zealand. 62 jobs, according to the 2016 TIN100 Report. KNOWLEDGE intensive employment 2 OF NZ’S TOP 10 Technology Investment HAMILTON 39% Network compaines Auckland 36% New Zealand 32% Gallagher and NDA Engineering 7 THE HUB OF THE NORTH ISLAND Hamilton is an emerging major freight and logistics centre. It’s an essential corner of New Zealand’s “growth triangle” with Auckland and Tauranga. The triangle accounts for two-thirds of all freight in New Zealand. Work will soon begin on a multi-billion dollar, 480 hectare Many large exporters and leading innovators are located inland port at Ruakura, on the outskirts of Hamilton. here including Fonterra, Gallagher, AFFCO, NDA Engineering, Mainfreight, Prolife Foods, Greenlea Premier Meats and the Dairy The port will generate around 11,000 new jobs for the region and Goat Co-operative. contribute $5b into the economy every year. Waikato Innovation Park in Ruakura helps local businesses take on Hamilton’s location between Auckland and Tauranga provides freight the world by developing and exporting new technology and food, producers and distributers with choices: road, rail and port options, and building key connections here and overseas. Today, the Park for domestic and international exporting and importing. houses more than 40 companies employing more than 400 people on site. Seventy per cent of the Park’s companies are exporters, Datacom, one of Asia Pacific’s leading IT-based service providers, and collectively earnings were close to $300m in 2015. recently opened its Kapua Data Centre in Hamilton. We’re the agricultural heart of New Zealand. AgResearch, It is one of only two centres in New Zealand certified by the New Zealand’s leading agricultural research institute is here, Uptime Institute, placing it in the top tier of data centres worldwide. as are the annual Mystery Creek Fieldays, the southern hemisphere’s largest farming and agricultural trade show. 8 Auckland Accounts for two-thirds of all freight in New Zealand Hamilton Tauranga 9 KEEPING YOU MOVING Waikato Expressway 1hr 15min This major roading project connects Auckland, Hamilton and Auckland Tauranga, reducing travel times and enabling supply routes for Airport industry, freight and tourism throughout the upper North Island. Hamilton Ring Road An $84m project to help move people and goods around Hamilton quickly and safely. It will reduce congestion on city streets and transform movement around Hamilton. The Hamilton Ring Road integrates with the Waikato Expressway, freeing up traffic to move easily in and out of Hamilton. Hamilton Airport Hamilton Airport has frequent direct flights to most destinations within New Zealand, including all the major centres, and is only a 15-minute drive from the central city. 10 1hr 30min E Auckland Port 1hr 30min Tauranga Port 10min to Motorway Interchange 1hr 30min Rotorua F 14min to Hamilton Airport 20min round city ring road 17KM ACROSS CITY, 20 TO 25 MINUTE DRIVE TIME 11 pe HAMILTON: THE FACTS AND FIGURES Hamilton is the largest inland and fourth largest city in New Zealand. Growing Connections, logistics and freight • Growing by an average of 40 new residents per week • Road, rail, air, ports – Hamilton is a cornerstome for freight • Population 2015: 156,800 Expected population 2033: 194,200 • Ultra Fast Fibre internet is available throught Hamilton • Youthful population compared to Auckland, Tauranga, • Ruakura commercial zone has 365 hectares of land, making it Christchurch and New Zealand as a whole more than three times larger than Highbrook Business Park in • More than 160 ethnicities Auckland • $1.35b worth of building consents granted over the past three • When fully operational Ruakura will have the capacity to process financial years (2013/14 to 2015/16) 1m TEU (20ft shipping containers) per year. Ports of Auckland and Tauranga combined currently both process approximately • Residential building consents have grown by 42 per cent 1.7m TEU per year between 2014/15 and 2015/16 financial years • Fonterra’s Crawford St dry store receives about 10,000 tonnes of • 100 hectares of industrial land ready now with 250 hectares product every week during peak production periods and fills more more available after 2021 than 100 containers each day • Crawford St’s extensive rail network reduces 50,000 truck movements per year 12 pe Prosperous Smart • GDP is $7.7b, 3.4 per cent of national GDP • 39 per cent of employees in Hamilton have a degree or high level • Between 2010 and 2015, Hamilton’s GDP grew by 2.7 per cent of education compared to national GDP growth of 2.5 per cent • More than 25,000 tertiary education students • Hamilton’s GDP growth in 2015 was 4.1 per cent, New Zealand • Almost half of Hamilton’s employed workforce is in ‘high skilled’ was 3.6 per cent or ‘medium/high skilled’ jobs - higher then the New Zealand • Productivity growth overtook national productivity growth in 2015 average • High levels of employment in healthcare, manufacturing, retail Safe trade and professional, scientific and technical services • In 2015, the number of filled jobs in Hamilton grew by more than • Big data centres and a strong analytics industry are located 2100 in Hamilton because the city has a low risk of disruptive natural events • 32.5 per cent reduction in police reported crime in the central city over the last two years 13 YOU’RE WELCOME HERE Hamilton is a business-friendly city. Whatever size or type of business you have, we have a place for you. There is a ready supply of industrial land, and office and commercial space available to buy or lease. Companies that are investing significantly in growth and Other developments include the Peacocke Growth Cell development projects around Hamilton include: (620 hectares of residential housing); the $14m Rototuna • Fonterra (Crawford St) • Livestock Improvement development featuring a commercial and retail precinct, • Porters and JV Partners Corporation two new schools and the Rotokauri industrial and housing • Dairy Goat Co-operative • NZ Agricultural Fieldays development.