Digging deep into NZ’s biggest industry, the 2014 Agribusiness report looks at how the major players fared. Examining industry structures, global supply chains and government programmes to support the industry. We considered the opportunities and constraints on New Zealand agribusiness and some of the rising star companies in agritechnology. We also looked at rapidly developing market opportunities including the Middle …

and Alexander Speirs New Zealand’s oldest dairy co-op celebrated its centenary anniversary on Monday evening. Staunchly independent and refreshingly different, Tatua has evolved from a dairy company of 10 farmers to an international business with nearly 400 staff and revenue approaching $250 million. Based on the outskirts of Morrinsville in Central Waikato, CEO Paul McGilvary describes the company as being …

It’s high-stakes for Fonterra and its more than 10,000 farmer shareholders as the dairy cooperative tries to halt Danone’s multimillion-dollar action in the High Court at Auckland. The French food conglomerate wants compensation for alleged damages of the more than half a billion dollars it claims to have suffered as a result of last year’s botulism scare. The scare ultimately …