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Little Elephant needed a place to grow and thrive
Little Elephant knew exactly what their product would be and what it would do, but they wanted full…
11 February 2023
Nourish You – Nurture Our Planet – Sustainable Foods
Powerful words in an age where consumers are questioning not just what is in their next meal, but what was…
27 January 2023
From the whenua to food – Nuka
Dr Kiri Dell had always dreamed of a way to utilise her skill and expertise to bring value back to…
27 January 2023
FoodPilot partnership makes the most of every drop of milk – Synlait
Synlait Milk’s catchcry is ‘Doing Milk Differently For A Healthier World’ and R&D is critical to realising the potential of…
27 January 2023
Flexibility a key driver for some serious growth – Blue River Dairy
Blue River Dairy is an innovative Infant Formula producer from Southland New Zealand. Founded in 2004 as an award-winning cheese…
27 January 2023
A dash of innovation – Pāmu
When Pāmu (Landcorp Farming Ltd.) approached FoodPilot in 2017, they sought a range of expertise to convert their deer milk…
27 January 2023
Global appetite for sheep milk products – Spring Sheep
New Zealand is world famous for our dairy products and producing sheep. Until recently, these were two quite distinct industries,…
27 January 2023
Getting more from your milk: value-added dairy – Westland Milk Products
New Zealand is already world famous for delivering high quality dairy products across the world, but what if we could…
27 January 2023
Kiwi Salmon making big waves – New Zealand King Salmon
Operating out of sunny Nelson, New Zealand King Salmon (NZKS) is making big waves in the local economy with its…
27 January 2023
Reducing the risk of capital investment – Greenlea Premier Meats
When you have 80 years of history in one area of food production and choose to bring on an entirely…
27 January 2023
Market validation before capital investment – Sanford
Sanford is one of New Zealand’s largest companies and is devoted to the farming, harvesting, processing and marketing of quality…
27 January 2023
Pure heart poured into a bottle – Pure Heart Aotearoa
In New Zealand, hemp may be a fledgling industry but, based on its ability to improve both the environment and…
27 January 2023
Waste not want not – The Apple Press
You’ve heard the expression about life giving you lemons. For Ross Beaton and Sally Gallagher, life gave them apples, so…
27 January 2023
Full suite of support to make ideas come to life – Leaft Foods
When nobody has done what you’re doing, you want a full suite of support to make your idea come to…
27 January 2023
Oat of the ordinary – Otis Oat Milk
The café scene is constantly changing as new trends pass one another before we even realise it. What has not…
27 January 2023
Miah Faumuina’s journey with the NZ Food Innovation Network – Dulve
When she found herself stuck in Mexico as Covid made its presence felt around the world, Miah Faumuina took the…
26 January 2023
Support proves key to getting ‘cheeky’ business off the ground – Cheeky Tea Company
For University of Otago classmates and budding booze barons Brendan Yielder and Olivier Despatis, business started with a crude concoction…
26 January 2023
Going the extra mile – Fernglen Farm
Family-owned Fernglen Farm is based on the Wairarapa Coast and produce high quality sheep milk products using ethical and sustainable…
26 January 2023
Export success of World’s smartest drink – Ārepa
We’ve long heard of the concept of ‘brain food’ but a clever company right here in New Zealand has taken…
26 January 2023
Powering up a plant-based venture – Off Piste Ltd
Entrepreneur Jade Gray has spent more than 20 years building award-winning food and beverage brands in China, but when it…
26 January 2023
‘Healthy’ export growth – Pure Food Company
Inspired by the pain and suffering experienced with watching a loved one deteriorate after a throat illness, Pure Foods founder…
26 January 2023
Nu-Mega – Flexibility and expertise provide perfect test bed
After years of utilising the spray drying capabilities at FoodWaikato, Nu-Mega Ingredients had another product innovation they wanted to…
10 February 2023
Lila Jasmine – great products start with successful R&D
One new business has a great problem – they cannot make enough product to satisfy the demand. Renata Lardelli…
22 February 2023
The New Zealand Quinoa Co
What started out as an idea mulled over a bowl of quinoa porridge for breakfast one morning, Taranaki farmers,…
21 January 2023
Harraways HARR-OS ® Oat Bites
Dunedin-based Harraways is a locally owned and operated oat processor, manufacturing a range of oat-based products. Harraways approached FoodSouth…
21 January 2023