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Trevelyan’s

Celebrating circa forty years of cultivating and maintaining old family values In 1991, James Trevelyan returned home to help his parents and Alister Hawkey, the...

Kiwifruit industry hunts high and low for staff

Visa holders who may not have considered seasonal work as an option are among those being targeted by the kiwifruit sector as it scrambles...

First Zespri Kiwifruit charter vessel sails for Japan

The first 4,100 tonnes (1.15 million trays) of this season’s Zespri SunGold Kiwifruit have left Port of Tauranga, bound for Kobe and Tokyo in...

Mount Pack & Cool new facility almost complete

Mount Pack & Cool’s Stage 4 expansion is nearing completion on time, on budget and on spec. The addition of a new packhouse fitted...

Zespri Red to become Zespri RubyRed™

Zespri has confirmed that its current red kiwifruit will be named Zespri RubyRed™ Kiwifruit for the first year of sales of commercial volumes in...

Bay’s primary sector enjoys strong returns at season’s mid-point

The Bay of Plenty is well-positioned to ride the wave of strong primary sector returns being enjoyed by horticultural and pastoral growers this season,...

Dr Matt Glenn named inaugural Kiwifruit Breeding Centre CEO

The Board of the newly established Kiwifruit Breeding Centre is delighted to announce the appointment of Dr Matt Glenn as its inaugural Chief Executive...

Seeka announces six month interim results

$30.8m net profit before tax – up 77% on six months to 30 June 2020. Listed New Zealand produce company Seeka Limited, with operations in...

Seeka announces an equity investment in Fruitometry

New Zealand’s largest kiwifruit grower Seeka announces an equity investment in Fruitometry an innovative horticultural agritech. In its first year Fruitometry successfully delivering a...

ZESPRI marks record season in 2020-21

Increased sales, the ongoing expansion of Zespri SunGold Kiwifruit production and great quality fruit underpinned by strong international demand have delivered a record result...

Leading kiwifruit companies to amalgamate

Seeka Limited and Opotiki Packing and Cool Storage Limited are to join via amalgamation, the companies said in a statement. This transaction will see Seeka...

$40m Kiwifruit Packhouse & Coolstore boost planned For Te Puke

Te Puke’s economy is heading for a $40 million cash injection as DMS Progrowers Ltd has unveiled plans to double the size of its...

Listen: Managing China’s theft of NZ’s SunGold kiwifruit

Our Bay of Plenty Business News writer Richard Rennie recently provided his take on Zespri's novel plan to combat theft by Chinese growers in...

Kiwifruit looking to a record harvest for 2021

The kiwifruit sector is poised to break records this season, with an estimated crop volume of 177.5 million trays putting it ahead of estimates...

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