Displaying items by tag: Zespri

The Government has set up a new Primary Sector Council to provide “independent strategic advice”, says Minister of Agriculture and Rural Communities Damien O’Connor.

Kiwifruit growers Mark and Catriona White and their Coastal Kiwis orchard have won the Bay of Plenty Ballance Farm Environment Awards.

Meat company Silver Fern Farms has poached a top executive from Zespri to be its new chief executive next year.

There's gold for New Zealand growers in Zespri’s SunGold kiwifruit.

The next push for Zespri will be further creating demand ahead of supply and getting the best value out of the company’s global structure, says the new chief executive Dan Mathieson.

Long-serving Zespri executive Dan Mathieson has been appointed the company’s new chief executive.

Move over celebrities, here come the two ‘Kiwifruit Brothers’.

Zespri has officially opened its regional office in Orange County, California to manage growing sales across Northern, Central and Southern America.

About 8% of total kiwifruit production comes from Maori orchards, and now there is an ambitious goal to get up to 20%, says Maori Kiwifruit Growers Forum chairman Tiaki Hunia.

The kiwifruit industry initially lost a billion dollars -- about one-third of its capital value -- to Psa, says Zespri chief executive Lain Jager.