04/10/2026
🏆 PEOPLE’S CHOICE. TWO YEARS RUNNING!! 🏆
We won. We screamed. We hugged. We drank ch*****ne. We danced. And holy heck, did we celebrate HARD 🥂💃
And judging by the photographic evidence, DAMN, WE LOOKED GOOD DOING IT 🔥😂
Now the ch*****ne haze is clearing, we’re left with a huge amount of gratitude. ❤️
Hello Pickle has officially won the More FM Northland 91.6 People’s Choice Award at the Northland Business Excellence Awards for the SECOND year running!
There’s something incredibly special about an award from the people who choose us every day.
Every coffee through our window, lunch, pie and catering order. Every review, recommendation, share and person who tells their mate, “Go to Hello Pickle.”
You keep choosing our little business, and we don’t take that for granted. Thank you. 🙏
And then there are the Pickles 🐐
Team Pickle are the absolute GOATs. I tell them how bloody brilliant they are all the time, but having our community say it too means more than I can put into words. This award is theirs, and I couldn’t be more proud. 🥹
Being announced as finalists in TWO more categories, Small Business and Employer of the Year, was huge.
The standard of excellence in our Northland business community is incredible. To be recognised alongside businesses doing exceptional things across Te Tai Tokerau is an achievement we’re enormously proud of.
In Small Business, we couldn’t have been happier to see ONEONESIX take it home.
We have so much love and respect for what the 116 crew have created and bring to Whangārei. Sharing a table, cheering ridiculously loudly and celebrating their very deserved success was bloody special. We see you 116 ❤️🙌
And Employer of the Year?
That one hit differently.
Creating a workplace where people feel valued, supported and able to grow is one of the biggest reasons I’m in business. Hello Pickle has always been about our people and the culture we build together.
To have that recognised means everything.
Thank you to the judges and NZ Chambers of Commerce Northland for celebrating the incredible businesses of Te Tai Tokerau.
And to my Pickles…
THIS ONE IS YOURS 🐐🏆❤️