Sep 16, 2020 | Latest News
There is no evidence food, food packaging, or food handling are a source or transmission route for the Covid-19 virus, according to a study by the International Commission on Microbiological Specifications for Foods. It says: “Despite the billions of meals consumed...
Aug 14, 2020 | Latest News
The Food & Grocery Council is assuring New Zealanders the grocery supply chain across New Zealand is operating as usual, so there is no need for panic-buying. FGC’s Industry Relations Group is in regular contact with the major retailers Countdown...
Aug 10, 2020 | Latest News
The number of products displaying the Health Star Rating labels has continued to climb this year despite the Covid-19 lockdown halting non-essential work in many food and beverage companies for many weeks. At June 30, there were a total of 5250 products with the...
Jun 26, 2020 | Latest News
FGC CEO Katherine Rich and members Pic Picot of Pic’s Peanut Butter fame and Samantha Firsow of IRI will be among speakers at the 2020 FMCG Business Marketing Summit in September. Katherine will speak on marketing in New Zealand and around the world, Pic’s topic...
Mar 13, 2020 | Latest News
FGC welcomes the release of the latest growth and investment guide on the food and beverage industry. The Investor’s Guide to the New Zealand Food and Beverage Industry is part of the government’s Food and Beverage Information Project, whose objective is to...
Nov 20, 2019 | Latest News
There are now more than 5150 food products in supermarkets sporting Health Star Rating labels. At 30 September there were 2653 products from FGC-member companies – an increase of 155 in just the three months since June 30. The remaining 2497 are the home brands of...
Aug 14, 2019 | Latest News
One of New Zealand’s biggest honey producers and exporters, Arataki Honey, has announced two major sustainability initiatives involving power use and packaging. It has installed 250 solar panels at its production plant in Hawke’s Bay that it hopes will halve its...
Aug 5, 2019 | Latest News
FGC is one of five organisations to receive a grant from ACC to develop projects to help reduce injuries in the workplace. The $1.5 million grant is part of a $22 million injury prevention programme by ACC that includes the forestry and construction industries and...
Jun 6, 2019 | Latest News
NZ agriculture scientists continue to show they’re among the cleverest in the world, with AgResearch announcing it’s developing a method of giving New Zealand exports a “unique fingerprint” that scientifically proves their provenance and could be used to deter...
May 20, 2019 | Latest News
Suppliers to the Australian supermarket duopoly of Coles and Woolworths are being squeezed as the companies fight for market share, according to a brand building specialist. Troy McKinna says to steal market share from each other and to combat ALDI’s low prices, Coles...
May 2, 2019 | Latest News
Woolworths has increased its lead as Australia’s top grocery retailer, taking its share of the total grocery market to 34% last year, up 1.4 percentage points on a year earlier, according to market research company Roy Morgan’s Supermarket & Fresh Food Currency...
Apr 9, 2019 | Latest News
Heinz Wattie’s Managing Director Mike Pretty is the new Chair of the NZ Food and Grocery Council. He replaces Tim Deane, former Managing Director of Goodman Fielder NZ, who has moved to a position outside the industry, as executive general manager business banking at...
