Advertising and Promotional Spending

Response

Sent: Wednesday, 6 August 2025 9:22 am
Subject: Official Information Request - Advertising and Promotional Spending

Kia ora,

I refer to your Official Information request of 14 July 2025 for information regarding advertising and promotional spending.

Council emailed you on the 22 July advising that due to the request being very broad and Council not recording the information in the way that you requested, Council would have to decline the request under section 17 (e) ‘that the information requested does not exisit’.

However, Council did offer to provide the ‘advertising cost code’ information for the requested time frame and you advised on the 31 July:

‘Yes, we would appreciate the report run based on the advertising code for the past three years. No stress about not being broken down further.’

Please find below the advertising costs for the 3 Financial Years as requested: