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Since the Grocery Code’s introduction in September 2023, more than 750 industry professionals have completed NZFGC’s training programme delivered in partnership with NextGen Group. As the Code evolves NZFGC’s capability-building support is too. Many will be aware, changes to the Grocery Supply Code are coming in 2026, following the outcome of the Commerce Commission’s review. As the Grocery Commissioner Pierre van Heerden told us last year on an NZFGC webinar, these updates s

Watch now to hear from the leaders and companies driving progress across Aotearoa’s food and beverage landscape.

To support suppliers, the NZFGC is refreshing its training programme in partnership with leading FMCG consultancy NextGen Group.

The New Zealand Food & Grocery Council launched a Plastic Packaging consumption survey in 2020, managed by Dynata as an independent data collector. Dynata aggregates responses and provides the data for analysis and reporting. Grocery sector data from the 2022 survey supported Valpak's plastic packaging flows report for the Plastic Packaging Product Stewardship Scheme design project. The questionnaire, refined with input from Plastics NZ and The Packaging Forum, has remained

In 2023, APCO (owners of the ARL) initiated discussions with New Zealand paper recyclers to establish a recyclability threshold for complex fibre packaging, subsequently putting on hold the application of the ARL recycling label on these products. As a result, guidance regarding complex fibre packaging now differs between Australia and New Zealand. To assess the prevalence of complex fibre packaging in mixed paper bales within New Zealand, APCO, The Packaging Forum, and the