New Zealand food and fibre exports on track to break new records Food and fibre sector export revenue is expected to increase 12% to $59.9 billion for the year to 30 June 2025, supported by tight global beef and milk supplies, solid demand, and a weaker New Zealand...
The New Zealand Food & Grocery Council (NZFGC), GS1 New Zealand, The Australian Food and Grocery Council (AFGC) and GS1 Australia have joined forces to roll out SmartFacts®; a groundbreaking new initiative designed to harmonise ‘digital labelling’ across on-shelf...
NZFGC announces new Chair and Deputy Chair following board elections The New Zealand Food & Grocery Council (NZFGC) is pleased to announce the election of Mike Cullerne as Chair and Cameron Scott as Deputy Chair of the NZFGC Board, following the recent Annual...
Plastic Packaging Product Stewardship scheme report is available now 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...
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...