by Tash McGill | Oct 13, 2023 | Opinion
I bought a 3kg bag of carrots at Costco at $4.99. That’s a lot of carrots considering I live alone. But the deal seemed good – but would it turn into 24 carrot gold? I knew I could save precious pennies over the next two to three weeks – just eat...
by Ben Fahy | Nov 3, 2022 | Opinion
For most New Zealanders, coffee is a ritual. For a few, it’s a business. In this new weekly series, we talk to a range of different New Zealand coffee companies at different stages of growth and with different ownership structures to find out how they got there, if...
by Ben Fahy | Aug 4, 2022 | Opinion
For Brenda Tahi, the chief executive of Manawa Honey NZ, honey is not the end. It’s a means to an end; part of a value chain that extends from the land they manage to the people they support to the customers they eventually impress with their world-class products....
by Vincent Heeringa | Jan 28, 2022 | Opinion
If you were looking for someone to launch a new food brand, Jade Gray is your man. He’s managed a farm. He has managed a supermarket butchery. He ran a meat processing plant in China, and he launched (and sold) a chain of pizza stores in Beijing called Gungho....
by Vincent Heeringa | Oct 2, 2021 | Opinion
New Zealand grows great oats and makes excellent oat milk – in Sweden. That’s right. It’s grown in New Zealand and then shipped to Sweden where it’s processed and returned to our shores to be bottled and sold. That hardly seems the sustainable...
