The NZ Food and Grocery Council will canvas the views of its supplier members over Foodstuffs’ proposal to merge its North Island and South Island companies. Chief Executive Raewyn Bleakley says the merger has been a much talked-about prospect for many years now. “We...
During the first major debate of the election campaign, the leaders of the Labour Party and the National Party were asked for their position on a sugar tax. Both rejected it, and this was reinforced by the Minister of Health in RNZ’s ‘Off the Shelf’ series, in...
A consortium of iwi is reported to be in advanced talks over setting up a new supermarket chain, initially with between 20 and 30 stores, to take on Countdown and Foodstuffs. Stuff, quoting “multiple sources”, says Waikato Tainui, through its commercial arm Tainui...
We are now definitely in the thick of the election campaign where many policy announcements will be of interest to the food and grocery sector. At NZFGC we’re keeping a keen eye on these. With the polls continuing to be neck and neck it’s critical we are across all...
Consultation paper: Exposure draft – New Zealand Grocery Supply Code of Conduct and the Grocery Industry Competition (Grocery Supply Code) Regulations 2023 – to MBIE
The NZ Food and Grocery Council welcomes the launch of the Grocery Supply Code of Conduct by the Government today. It comes into effect on September 28. The final version confirms: the prohibition of abuse of power by supermarkets over suppliers the stipulation that...
Exporting is an important part of the business of many NZFGC members whose brands we see daily on supermarket shelves. For some, exporting outweighs what they sell on our shores, while others are looking to break into new markets to open up growth opportunities beyond...
