At Directus we have an expert, global knowledge when it comes to the food and beverage industry, and over 40 years of experience backing us. With offices around the Asia-Pacific Rim in Hong Kong, the USA, Australia and New Zealand, we supply ingredients and finished products to numerous great companies around the world. We also have the ability to provide process and pack technologies, along with product innovation and development.
The key areas we operate in are:
Food Ingredients
Finished Products
Machinery
Market Knowledge & Innovation

Merck, your partner in food & beverage testing.
Our analysis products are used by food manufacturers in order to continuously monitor the quality of their goods. For example, our high-purity reagents and chromatography systems support compliance with the very stringent international food regulations. We offer solutions to ensure that the food we consume is safe and free from contaminants.
Find the Food & Beverage Safety Testing Solution to Match Your Needs.
Food safety goes far beyond the visible. We understand that changing regulations, complex processes and delayed product releases can be challenging; see how we can help with our full range of microbiological food testing and environmental monitoring solutions.
My F&B Scout is an indispensable application for your QC microbiology needs. Create personalized brochures and register to gain access to a full range of application notes, white papers & videos.
Contact Merck – how we can partner with you?

Formula Foods designs and manufactures flavours right here in New Zealand. Our team of flavourists and technologists utilise advanced technologies to make tailor made flavours from base natural materials.

Formula Foods is 100% New Zealand owned flavour and ingredients company based in Christchurch and Founded in 1987 by David and Christine Rout.
Offering customised solutions with low minimum order quantities on short lead-times is our specialty.

We work closely with clients to supply a unique, tailor-made range of products and services, of unparalleled quality and performance, to the food manufacturing industry, who in turn will achieve improved, high quality, cost-effective and innovative products.

Manufacture and development of beverage products. Flavour Burst sports drinks, milkshakes and syrups to liqueurs, spirits and RTD’s. Distributors of beer and wine kits, Coopers, Muntons, Morgans. Manufacturers of the Brewmaster and Spirits Unlimited. Contract Bottling of miniatures a specialty. Blending, batching and product development. Export of concentrates, hops and ethanol. Suppliers of natural and compound favours to the food industry.
Technical Service, catalogue and ingredient samples available.