With its brands Bosch, Hawera, Skil, Dremel, RotoZip, Freud, Vermont American, and many more, Bosch is one of the largest manufacturer of portable power tools worldwide.

Hawera is 27 km to the north-west, and Waverley 17 km to the east.

Stratford is 11 km north, Kaponga 13 km west, and Hawera 19 km south.

Hawera is the second-largest town in the Taranaki region of New Zealand's North Island, with a population of.

Hawera is 75 kilometres south of New Plymouth on State Highway 3 and 20 minutes ' drive from Mount Taranaki.

Hawera is Māori for burnt place, from fighting between two local sub-tribes, which culminated in the setting ablaze of the sleeping whare ( house ) of the tribe under attack.

Hawera is also home to the largest dairy factory complex in the world, " Whareroa ", which has its own gas-fired powerplant.

Hawera High School is a secondary ( years 9-13 ) school with a roll of 782.

Hawera Intermediate is an intermediate ( years 7-8 ) school with a roll of 352.

Milk from farms in the Woodville district is now transported by rail from the Oringi Milk Transfer Station to Hawera for processing.

South Taranaki is a territorial authority on the west coast of New Zealand's North Island that contains the towns of Hawera, Manaia, Opunake, Patea, Eltham, and Waverley.

Wayne Gould ( 高樂德法官 ) ( born 3 July 1945 in Hawera, New Zealand ) is a retired Hong Kong judge, most recently known for helping to popularise sudoku puzzles in the United Kingdom, and thereafter in the United States.

Alan Brough ( b. Hawera, New Zealand 1967 ) is a New Zealand-born actor and comedian based in Australia.

As a young child, he lived near his mother's Wai-o-Turi marae at Whenuakura, just south of Patea, and also spent much of his time with whanau at his father's Taiporohenui marae, near Hawera.

Inglewood was home to the Moa-Nui Co-operative Dairies factory, before it merged with Kiwi Co-operative Dairies ( later Fonterra ) based at Hawera in 1991.

Hawera Primary School, Ramanui School, Tawhiti School and Turuturu School are contributing primary ( years 1-6 ) schools with rolls of 202, 80, 194, and 281, respectively.

Hawera Primary and Tawhiti have decile ratings of 4.

* Surf Highway-alternative name for SH45 from New Plymouth to Hawera.

In the ten months to May 2009, KiwiRail moved 729 million litres of milk by rail from Oringi in the southern Hawke's Bay through Palmerston North for processing in Hawera, south Taranaki.

Born on 26 August 1889 in Hawera, a small town in the Taranaki region of New Zealand, Grant was working as a builder when he volunteered for the New Zealand Expeditionary Force ( NZEF ) in June 1915.

This locomotive was in service for more than 30 years but then hit a washout near Hawera.

A live breakfast show presented by Brian Kelly, along with programmes presented by Gael Ludlow and Rick Morin from Auckland studios are broadcast across the network's fifteen stations, except for a local breakfast breakout for Hawera.

The current high school opened as Hawera Technical High School in 1919, and moved to its present site in 1921.

Hawera Primary celebrated its 125th jubilee in 2000.

All Coast stations take the same networked programme from Auckland except Hawera, which has its own local breakfast show called The 1557 Breakfast.

A series of attacks on small parties and convoys in June prompted retaliatory raids by McDonnell on local villages, including a bayonet raid on the Pokokaikai pā north of Hawera on 1 August 1866, in which two men and a woman were killed.

Later after the closure of Parihaka he worked as a translator and interpreter in Whanganui and then set up a business in Hawera teaching Maori language.

In June 1868 Titokowaru's forces destroyed a colonist blockhouse at Turuturumokai, inland of Hawera.

Stores were opened in the Auckland suburb Mt Wellington in early August 2006 in the new Sylvia Park shopping mall, and on 5 December 2006 in Hawera.

Cameron's force, by then boosted to 2300, moved again on 2 February, crossing the Waitotara River by raft and establishing posts at Waitotara, Patea and several other places before arriving at the Waingongoro River, between Hawera and Manaia, on 31 March, where a large camp and redoubts were built.

Troops encountered fire at Hawera, but his only other major encounter was at Te Ngaio, in open country between Patea and Kakaramea, on 15 March when the troops were ambushed by about 200 Māori, including unarmed women.

Further skirmishing took place near Hawera and Patea in October and November.

On 14 January he launched an attack on the strongly fortified Otapawa pā, about 8 km north of Hawera.

On 9 June 1868, Ngāti Ruanui warriors escalated their campaign, shooting and tomahawking three settlers felling and sawing timber on the east side of the Waingongoro River, between Hawera and Manaia.

The upper part of his body was taken by Hauhau warriors to Te Ngutu o Te Manu, a village 16 km north of Hawera, where it was cooked and eaten.

In a move Belich claims was designed to provoke McDonnell and lure him to a battle at a place of Titokowaru's choosing, 60 warriors from the Ngaruahine hapu, along with Imperial Army deserter Charles Kane, launched a pre-dawn raid on the dilapidated Turuturu-Mokai Redoubt, 2. 5 km north of Hawera and 5 km from the main army camp at Waihi Redoubt, killing 10 and wounding six of the 25 Armed Constabulary garrisoned there.

On 26 May 1879 those bullocks and horses began to be put to use ploughing long furrows through the grassland of white settler farmers – first at Oakura and later throughout Taranaki, from Hawera in the south to Pukearuhe in the north.

At Hawera a group of 100 armed vigilantes confronted ploughmen, but were talked out of violence by those they had come to threaten.

The land around Parihaka began to be surveyed and work began, from both northern and southern approaches, on a coast road between New Plymouth and Hawera.

* Hawera (): From Normanby to Mokoia.

Stores were opened in the Auckland suburb Mt Wellington in early August 2006 in the new Sylvia Park shopping mall, and on 5 December 2006 in Hawera.

High Street ( which runs through the centre of town-as part of State Highway 3 connecting Stratford, Ngaere, Normanby and Hawera ) and Bridge Street ( which heads westward towards Kaponga and joins State Highway 45 near Opunake ), were the first tar-sealed roads in New Zealand.

The Waingongoro River forms a western boundary to the town itself, flowing through the Presbyterian Church campsite ( in the town's northwest ) and Taumata Park ( the town's main camping area and sports ground-in the western part of the town ) and winding itself southwestward to meet the Tasman Sea at Ohawe Beach, near Hawera.