{"id":8002,"date":"2018-05-02T13:32:19","date_gmt":"2018-05-02T01:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abtec.co.nz\/blog\/?p=8002"},"modified":"2018-05-02T13:32:19","modified_gmt":"2018-05-02T01:32:19","slug":"how-to-best-celebrate-25-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/how-to-best-celebrate-25-years\/","title":{"rendered":"How to best celebrate 25 years?"},"content":{"rendered":"

How to best celebrate 25 years of business success and customer loyalty was never going to be a big challenge for Ashley Burrell, owner of Abtec Audio Lounge, the Petone-based automotive and home audio company.<\/p>\n

The experienced industry player has hit on a winner idea with a generous giveaway of state-of-the-art American audio speakers worth a massive $10,000.<\/p>\n

To be in to win the handmade Cornwall speakers entrants simply have to visit www.abtec.co.nz anytime in May and click on the Promos button and leave their details.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been told this is madness, I\u2019ve talked to the big industry companies and they say there\u2019s never been a give-away anything like this before.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have a lot of loyal customers and this $10,000 give-away is our giving something back \u2026 there\u2019s going to be one very lucky person out there.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have always liked old school stuff with stereo equipment and nothing comes near the sound of these things,\u2019\u2019 Ashley says.<\/p>\n

Reaching the quarter-century mark comes at a poignant time for Ashley and the family audio business which operates from its purpose-built building on the corner of Hutt Road and Riddlers Crescent.<\/p>\n

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The 25-year celebration giveaway will also serve as a way for Ashley to recognise the contribution made by his mother, Yvonne, to Abtec from its very start to the present day.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately Yvonne is battling serious health issues and while Ashley is helping in every possible way with her care he also wants Abtec\u2019s celebrations – which will include his mother drawing the name of the lucky winner on June 5 – to serve as recognition of her contribution.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile we are being positive it\u2019s been a shock for us all and I\u2019m hoping this will be a nice part of what is an important time.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

Ashley laughs when he remembers how his mother gave up the dining room when he was setting up the business in their Whitby home in the early 1990s.<\/p>\n

\u201cThen we took over a bedroom and later even jacked up the place to build a workshop underneath, amazing really. For the whole 25 years she\u2019s been our biggest supporter and an important contributor, from doing the banking to mail outs \u2026 she\u2019s done it all.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

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With Ashley\u2019s son Jeremy now part of a loyal Abtec team also including his wife Narelle and brother Darryl, it means three generations of Burrells are involved, a point of pride and for the 52-year-old business owner.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a real family affair and we\u2019ve got a lot to celebrate.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have a lot of loyal customers and this $10,000 give-away is our giving something back.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How to best celebrate 25 years of business success and customer loyalty was never going to be a big challenge for Ashley Burrell, owner of Abtec Audio Lounge, the Petone-based automotive and home audio company. The experienced industry player has hit on a winner idea with a generous giveaway of state-of-the-art American audio speakers worth […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8002"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8002"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8009,"href":"https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8002\/revisions\/8009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}