Meet the team who make buying a shipping container easy. Need to hire? That’s easy too.
Whether you’re hiring or buying a shipping container, we’ll find you the right size with the right specifications for your needs. Our team has many years of experience finding solutions for storage, transportation and using shipping containers in new and innovative ways.
Born and bred in Hawke’s Bay, I am a fun-loving mum to two beautiful demanding teenagers and a helper to many. The container industry has been my life for the past 15+ years with my husband Willie, owning the business since 2009. When I am not pressing keys on the computer for A1, you are likely to find me pressing keys on my piano or my face in a fictional novel escaping from motherhood. I am also partial to a quiz night at the local pub with friends or a sneaky wine tasting at some of our local Hawke’s Bay wineries.
I am pretty good at hot coffee runs to keep our staff refueled. I love helping our customers, no question is a silly one and I will go the extra mile to help with all those tricky jobs. Behind the scenes, you will usually find me proofreading emails and tying up loose ends in the office.
Looking after the business financials is my number one focus, along with supporting Willie with the business and assisting the team with day-to-day matters. Having spent 15 years in the industry, I enjoy helping our customers and can assure you any member of our team can provide you with their combined knowledge and friendly service.
Growing up in Central Otago as a teenager, working on local stations, my love was to be a shepherd, but I somehow ended up back in the North Island driving trucks at the age of 18. Transport seemed to be the new career path for me, so I went on to manage a transport depot in Hastings, to managing a rental and lease fleet of heavy vehicles in Hawke’s Bay. Meeting Heidi, a local Napier girl, we married and had two great kids (now teenagers). Taking a leap of faith in 2010, Heidi and I sold our home in Napier and moved the family to Tauranga. We had made the decision to invest every last cent we had into ourselves and brought A1 Containers in Tauranga. In 2018, we moved back home to Napier and opened our second Head Office Depot in Prebensen Drive. Nowadays, my flock of containers doesn’t seem to move about as the Merinos do and the tractors don’t look like tractors should, the hills are nonexistent but as you will see on social media, I still find my way to the mountains to spook the odd deer.
Jack of all trades, but a master of none. I spend most of my working days wondering where the day went. We have a fantastic team at A1 Containers who allow me to look busy while they are doing all the great work. A1 Containers is my family and my focus. You will see me at both our head offices, Napier & Tauranga splitting my time between both branches. We have built the business on excellent customer service and high-quality containers for every client buying a shipping container.
I work away in the background, working on the business and assisting the team. With many hats to wear, my two key focuses are one, the team, and that they have the tools, information, and a fun environment to help our customers to the best of their ability. Secondly, the procurement of quality containers.
We pride ourselves on over grading our containers making sure what we sell is graded correctly and the best available. Finding these containers in this industry is a real challenge. I put a lot of pressure back on our suppliers to honour what they are selling to us, so we can have the best containers available for our customers.
