3-AD006.00 ENGAGEMENT OUTCOMES PROPOSED WAIHI NORTH PROJECT OceanaGold New Zealand Limited WSP April 2022 18 5 SURVEY OF EXISTING SUPPLIERS An online survey of existing suppliers to the OceanaGold Waihi operation was undertaken as part of the Social Impact Assessment of the proposed Waihi North Project on businesses. A link to the online survey was sent on 6 September 2021 by OceanaGold to its existing suppliers of the Waihi mining operations, asking for it to be completed by those responsible for making business decisions in relation to the services supplied to OceanaGold. A timeframe of four weeks was provided for completion of the survey. 5.1 RESULTS A total of 175 business representatives responded to the survey. As not all questions were compulsory, respondents did not answer every question. 5.1.1 BUSINESS PROFILE The large majority of survey respondents (75.9%) had 30 or less employees in their business. Respondents were asked which ANZSIC06 industrial classification they best fit into of which the top three groups were: 1) Other services, 2) Professional, Scientific and Technical Services, and 3) Manufacturing. When asked to best describe their business over the last five years a majority (54.6%) stated that their business had expanded. Most respondents (59.7%) also stated they expected their business to expand in the next five years as well. A breakdown of the responses can be seen in Table 13 to Table 16. Table 13: Number of employees NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES N. (%) 1 to 10 75 (51.7%) 11 to 20 20 (13.8%) 21 to 30 15 (10.3%) 31 to 40 11 (7.6%) 41 to 50 2 (1.4%)
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