Takeover bid?
OPINION: Canterbury milk processor Synlait is showing no sign of bouncing back from its financial doldrums.
Like it or not, it’s another marketing coup for Lewis Road Creamery.
The owner of the hugely popular chocolate milk is making headlines again. In a bid to raise money for breast cancer research, Lewis Road has emblazoned its blue top 1.5L organic homogenised milk with a red label reading ‘Breast Milk: the cow’s milk that funds the cure’.
For every labelled bottle sold (RRP $6.09) Lewis Road will donate 20 cents to Breast Cancer Cure, the research foundation that originally pitched the idea to the dairy company.
The labelling move is slated by breastfeeding advocates but Lewis Road Creamery says it did not intend to mislead customers.
Consumers think it’s a brilliant marketing ploy.
One of Fonterra’s global customers, Mars is launching an ambitious sustainable dairy plan to work with dairy farmers and cut emissions by 50%.
Beef + Lamb New Zealand chief executive for the past eight years, Sam McIvor is heading for new pastures at Ospri, which runs NZ’s integrated animal disease management and traceability service.
The world's largest wool scouring facility, WoolWorks Awatoto plant in Napier, is back operating at full capacity.
A year on and the problems created by Cyclones Hale and Gabrielle has largely dropped off the radar of media and politicians.
Feeling forgotten and in a fragile space financially and mentally.
Horticulture NZ chief executive Nadine Tunley will step down in August.
OPINION: Canterbury milk processor Synlait is showing no sign of bouncing back from its financial doldrums.
OPINION: It seems every bugger in this country can get an award these days.