Chocs away for new business visitors

Fifteen new businesses enjoyed an array of treats from Warkworth’s Chocolate Brown as part of a Visitors Day organised by business networking group BNI recently. Bill Raynel, director consultant for BNI Warkworth, said it was a very energetic meeting, with members making “fantastic” contacts with the new businesses who came along. “It was a real eye-opener for our existing members in terms of showing them how many keen business people are out there looking to network,” he said. BNI Warkworth president Lynn Hailes said the chapter had enjoyed a successful year last year, generating around $675,000 in business.