The Plastic Packaging Product Stewardship scheme report, which outlines a proposed producer-led system to manage and reduce the environmental impact of plastic packaging, is now available at the project website. Read the Plastic Packaging Product Stewardship scheme...
Are you an Owner, Chief Executive or General Manager of small to medium-sized FMCG businesses, with a turnover of less than $100m in revenue? Our first SME event for 2025 will be on Thursday 3 April, with Foodbowl Co-CE Grant Verry. The sessions will be chaired by...
Food Product Reformulation As food technologists, processors, and researchers you have a lot on your plate – and not just breakfast, lunch and dinner! Our food supply is in your capable hands and I for one am so grateful for that. In my view we don’t celebrate enough...
Thriving in 2025: He rā ki tua – better times are coming In that wonderfully lazy New Year’s period, when no one really knows what day of the week it is – unless you’re working hard on the job – news that a single male oriental fruit fly had been found...
Refresh for NZFGC’s Safe In Store Pass Programme (SISP) If you’ve ever taken advantage of tastings offered while supermarket shopping, you might have noticed the person offering the sample is wearing a green pass. Or maybe you’ve seen someone wearing one...
New Zealand Food and Grocery Council recently lodged a submission in response to Call for submissions: Recovering the Costs of Goods Management Activities at the Border. You can read the full submission, lodged in November 2024, here: NZFGC Submission Recovering the...
Food NZ Column: Shared Horizons FOODNZ December24/January25 by NZ Institute of Food Science and Technology – Issuu I’m writing this while still energised from our New Zealand Food and Grocery Council (NZFGC) Conference, held in Wellington last week. On the...
Supermarket News Column: In the Spirit of the Season DECEMBER 2024 – Supermarket News Last month we launched the second season of our “Shared Horizons” video series, an NZFGC initiative looking at Aotearoa New Zealand’s FMCG industry proudly...
Supermarket News: NZFGC Annual Conference 2024 DECEMBER 2024 – Supermarket News 2024 NZFGC Annual Conference Wellington, Te Whanganui a Tara, hosted this year’s NZFGC Annual Conference, with over 200 delegates coming together in the capital city at Tākina, Te...
FMCG Business Mag Column: Annual Conference 2024 – Shared Horizons FMCG Business December 2024-January 2025 by The Intermedia Group – Issuu Wellington, Te Whanganui a Tara, hosted this year’s NZFGC Annual Conference, with over 200 delegates coming together...
Supermarket News Column: Playing ‘Snap’ with labelling NOVEMBER 2024 – Supermarket News When was the last time you made an online purchase? Chances are if you’re Gen Z, it was a matter of minutes ago, while 62% of the rest of the New Zealand adult...
NZFGC Shared Horizons 2024 We’ve launched the second season of Shared Horizons! Presented by the New Zealand Food and Grocery Council in partnership with ASN Media, Shared Horizons showcases the latest innovations, inspirations and leadership in Aotearoa New...
