Browsing: Export
Case studies from the New Zealand food export business: discover what successful food and beverage exporters are doing. Covers New Zealand beef exports, dairy exports, fish exports, seafood exports and more.
New beer flavours meet global demand for novelty
New hop cultivars with novel flavour and aroma characteristics can earn a premium on the global marketplace. Continue →
Cracking down on unlawful infant formula exports
By Carol Barnao
The Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI), in a joint operation with the New Zealand Customs Service, has swung into action to stop unlawful exports of New Zealand made infant formula products. Continue →
Hoki skins used for emerging biomaterials market
New biomaterial ingredients extracted from previously discarded hoki skins adds value to the seafood industry. Continue →
Why we must add value to commodities
By John Walley, chief executive, NZ Manufacturers and Exporters Association
The government has recently announced its goal of lifting exports from 30 percent to 40 percent of Gross Domestic Product, and it is clear from our export make up that much of this will have to come from added value activity (the growth of farming and tourism is limited by resource constraints). Continue →
Southern cold comfort
By Steve Best
A well known brand in the South Island for over 34 years, Deep South Ice Cream has in recent years increased its sales areas to the North Island as well as exporting to Australia, China and Japan. Continue →
Export success for boutique winery
A boutique New Zealand winery is celebrating their success as the first three 40 foot containers filled with 4000 cases of SOHO wine leave our shores, bound for the USA. Continue →
Great opportunities for NZ wine in China
One of China’s most respected wine experts says New Zealand is in a good position to begin capturing the imagination of China’s aspirational consumers. Continue →
Value over volume
A smaller 2012 vintage and tighter market conditions provide new opportunities and create exciting new possibilities for New Zealand wines according to the 2012 annual report released by New Zealand Winegrowers. Continue →
Smart refrigeration key to quality meat exports
A University of Waikato heat transfer expert says the changing regulatory environment means New Zealand chilled meat exporters face new challenges. Continue →
Naturally sweetened juice a NZ first
New Zealand’s largest juice company Frucor has announced the launch of new Just Juice with 50 percent less sugar, the first naturally sweetened, low sugar fruit juice drink range in New Zealand. Continue →
Further evidence of strong Marlborough mussel tone
Green shell mussel extract continues to defy detractors with evidence of benefits showing up in a second university clinical trial. Continue →
Market research and increased R&D are the keys to growth for horticulture industry
Attendees at Horticulture New Zealand’s annual conference held in Auckland last month were told that intense market research and increased investment in research and development rather than a belief in products was the key to growing exports. Continue →
Horticulture industry supporter wins premier award
Central Otago’s Con Van der Voort is the recipient of the New Zealand horticulture industry’s premier award, the Bledisloe Cup, for 2012. Continue →
First light at Fonterra’s newest site
Fonterra’s $200 million investment in a new milk processing plant is about to pay dividends as trials begin and staff familiarise themselves with operations at the Darfield site in Central Canterbury. Continue →
EasiYo aims to accelerate growth
EasiYo are a classic home innovation story with their founder Len Light creating the first ever non electric yoghurt maker in his garage to feed his eight children. Continue →
Go live for RFID in our biggest industry
By Gary Hartley of GS1 New Zealand
It’s a big month for RFID in New Zealand. Continue →
Cawthron Analytical Services concentrates its efforts on supporting New Zealand exporters
The sale of its wine and Blenheim microbiological testing services and environmental chemistry testing division is part of Cawthron Institute’s strategy to refocus its business on supporting the food and functional food industries. Continue →
Numbers down but 2012 still a good vintage
The 2012 New Zealand grape harvest has been completed in line with expectations for a smaller crop than the record 2011 vintage. Continue →
Raw pig meat imports meet MPI standards
By Ministry for Primary Industries director general Wayne McNee
At the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) we take biosecurity very seriously, and we have been successfully protecting New Zealand’s pig industry against the Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome (PRRS) for many years. Continue →
The – one small fly – one big $1.5 million price tag
By Andrew Fenton, president HortNZ
Horticulture New Zealand is disappointed to hear from the media that taxpayers will have to fork out at least $1.5 million to pay for the clean up after the Queensland Fruit Fly find in Auckland in May. Continue →