The food and grocery industry’s future is bright and full of opportunity – though, as always, there are challenges. Direction, focus, and shared horizons will help ensure the industry meets those challenges, makes the most of opportunities, and benefits from...
The company you work for has a significant impact on you – your health, safety and wellbeing, your earnings and career opportunities, your ability to have purpose and feel rewarded in what you do for a huge chunk of your time on this planet. June is a month where the...
We shouldn’t underestimate the impacts of wish-cycling and genuine misconceptions, both of which I think we’re all capable of doing with the best of intentions – I certainly know I am! I’ve always erred towards a generous view that my local council will do its best...
Recently, I had the privilege of meeting with a group of passionate and impressive food and beverage manufacturers based in the Hutt Valley at an event hosted by the Hutt Valley Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Patrick McKibbin, Chief Executive of the Chamber, who...
“Labour puts old-school refund scheme for bottles, cans and containers on ice” was the headline from a Stuff article reporting the Government’s decision to defer the introduction of a Container Deposit Scheme as part of policy cuts to focus on cost of living and...
New Zealand has not seen anything quite like Cyclone Gabrielle. It came hot and hard on the heels of the Auckland Anniversary weekend floods and Cyclone Hale, and as such wreaked utter devastation on many parts of the North Island. Tragically, lives have been lost,...
If, as is likely, 2022 goes down as one of the more eventful years in the history of the Food & Grocery Council and the industry, then 2023 is looming as one of the most significant. After what has been three tough years of unexpected and mostly unwanted surprises...
Almost everyone shops at a grocery store on a regular basis, so what is happening in the grocery industry in 2023 will be relevant to most Kiwis as consumers, as well as having significant impact on retailers and suppliers. The NZ Food and Grocery Council represents...
Raewyn Bleakley sat down with Sean Plunket of The Platform to discuss current grocery issues. On the agenda: rising prices and consumers shopping around; CO2 supply (NZ being reliant on one supplier and costs up 8x); options for more competition in the market; the...
2022 will go down as one of the most eventful in both the history of the Food & Grocery Council and the industry as a whole. And hard on its heels, 2023 is looming as one of the most significant. Long before I took over as chief executive in October, after...
I didn’t go into my first Food & Grocery Council conference this month with any doubts about the passion and knowledge members have for their work and the greater good they are involved in, but if I had any, they would have been well and truly dispelled. Beyond...
Shortly after joining FGC in October 2022, Raewyn Bleakley was asked by Supermarket News about herself and her career. Here are their questions and her answers: Some details about yourself, where did you grow up, family, education, previous roles etc I grew up in...
