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November NewsletterPosted On: Saturday, 9 December 2006
Thanks for all the great feedback from our last newsletter. We at GilesCivil have had a great year culminating in being listed in the Deloitte/Unlimited Magazine Fast50. The list of the top 50 fastest growing companies in N.Z. This is a... See PDF... more...
Giles Civil Ltd Makes the 2006 Deloitte/Unlimited Fast 50
Posted On: Friday, 20 October 2006
At the awards evening held at the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron last night Giles Civil Ltd was honoured with their inclusion in Deloitte/Unlimited Fast 50 for 2006. This list is made up of fastest growing New Zealand Companies measured over the... more...
October Newsletter
Posted On: Monday, 9 October 2006
Welcome to our new format newsletter. We aim to keep you up to date with what we're doing, new ideas plus just a few snippets of great quotes & ideas we come across. See PDF... more...
Another year flies by
Posted On: Saturday, 23 September 2006
Here at Giles Civil we have had another very busy & successful year. We have continued to grow our company with new plant, vehicles & people. Most of our gang has spent the last seven months at the $4.5m Whisper Cove Development at Snell's... more...
Whisper Cover on Google Earth
Posted On: Saturday, 23 September 2006
The attached picture is of the Whisper Cove development (the vacant land above the residential area stretching from the far left to the sea) taken from Google earth. Just to the north of the development is a mystery spiral, which is impossible to... more...
Giles Civil Makes Final Five
Posted On: Thursday, 1 June 2006
So close but not quite. We at Giles Civil feel very proud to have made the final five (out of over 1000 entries) in a $100,000 Kickstart Competition. The competition involved making a detailed submission on how to spend $100,000 to kick start a... more...
MONEY: Some Quotes to think about
Posted On: Wednesday, 31 May 2006
Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy. Groucho Marx The man who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to neither make money nor find much fun in life.... more...
The Frog Story
Posted On: Wednesday, 31 May 2006
There was once a bunch of tiny frogs, who arranged a running competition. The goal was to reach the top of a very high tower. A big crowd gathered around the tower to see the race and cheer on the contestants. The race began.... No-one in the crowd... more...
Unit Conversions
Posted On: Tuesday, 30 May 2006
Ratio of an igloo's Diameter to its circumference: Eskimo Pi 2000 pounds of Chinese soup: Won ton Time between slipping on a banana skin & hitting the pavement: one bananosecond Basic unit of Laryngitis: 1 hoarsepower 2 million bicycles: 2... more...
Tax Cuts. How they really work (David R. Kamerschen, Ph.D)
Posted On: Monday, 1 May 2006
Sometimes politicians scream, "It's just a tax cut for the rich!" And it's just accepted to be fact. But what does that really mean? Just in case you're not completely clear we hope the following will help. Let's put tax cuts in terms everyone can... more...
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