ANOTHER chapter in the Surtees success story was written over the weekend, when it received the Exporter of the Year Award at the 2014 BNZ Bay of Plenty ExportNZ Awards. This follows on from Surtees’ success at the same awards in 2013 where it received the Best Emerging Exporter Award, making this an historic win.

In the 25 years that the awards have been running it’s the first time that a business has received Best Emerging Exporter and Best Exporter in consecutive years.

“We are thrilled to have received this award,” said Phil Sheaff, Surtees managing director.

“We are proud of our product and of our dedicated team.”

For over 20 years, Surtees has been building industry-leading boats from their factory in Whakatane. From the original Neil Surtees design the company’s range has expanded to encompass a variety of aluminium boats all with the same objective: they are built to fish.