Dec 11, 2023 | Latest News
NZFGC has met with the Grocery Commissioner and Commerce Commission officials to discuss a range of issues. NZFGC Board members, Chief Executive Raewyn Bleakley, Grocery Commissioner Pierre van Heerden and officials from the Grocery Team at the Commerce Commission met...
Dec 5, 2023 | Latest News
Woolworths NZ’s profits dropped 52 per cent in the last full year, with rising costs pushing up operational costs for the grocery retailer, the NZ Herald reports. The New Zealand arm of Australian-owned supermarket giant Woolworths still came out with $76 million in...
Nov 23, 2023 | Raewyn Bleakley Comments
The annual NZFGC conference was held in Sydney at the beginning of November. With the theme of Shared Horizons, it was positive to have the highest number of retailers ever speaking on the programme. This was impacted at the last minute by the unfortunate demise of...
Nov 20, 2023 | Submissions
2ʹ-FL from GM Escherichia Coli K-12 (gene donor: Helicobacter Enhydrae) in infant formula products – to FSANZ
Nov 20, 2023 | Submissions
Transglutaminase from GM Bacillus licheniformis as a processing aid – to FSANZ
Nov 20, 2023 | Submissions
Beta-Fructofuranosidase from GM Trichoderma reesei as a processing aid – to FSANZ
Nov 6, 2023 | Submissions
Food derived from disease-resistant banana line QCAV-4 – to FSANZ
Oct 12, 2023 | Raewyn Bleakley Comments
During the first major debate of the election campaign, the leaders of the Labour Party and the National Party were asked for their position on a sugar tax. Both rejected it, and this was reinforced by the Minister of Health in RNZ’s ‘Off the Shelf’ series, in...
Oct 6, 2023 | Latest News, News
A consortium of iwi is reported to be in advanced talks over setting up a new supermarket chain, initially with between 20 and 30 stores, to take on Countdown and Foodstuffs. Stuff, quoting “multiple sources”, says Waikato Tainui, through its commercial arm Tainui...
Sep 29, 2023 | Submissions
Improving the composition of the food supply in relation to industrially produced trans fats – to Australian Department of Health, Canberra
Sep 19, 2023 | Raewyn Bleakley Comments
We are now definitely in the thick of the election campaign where many policy announcements will be of interest to the food and grocery sector. At NZFGC we’re keeping a keen eye on these. With the polls continuing to be neck and neck it’s critical we are across all...
