The installation of retractable thermal screens in T&G Fresh’s Geraghty glasshouses in Tūākau, in the Waikato, is the latest milestone on T&G’s journey to reduce carbon emissions across its business. These screens, which were fully installed in late...
T&G Global has commissioned one of the largest apple packhouses in the Southern Hemisphere at its Whakatū site in Hawke’s Bay. The highly automated facility, with 1.7 hectares of roof space, will be able to pack more than 125 million kilograms of apples per season...
T&G Global today announced it has signed Aotearoa New Zealand’s first Sustainability-Linked Loan in the horticulture sector – borrowing $180 million. The three-year loan is the first of its kind in New Zealand horticulture, and commits T&G to a science-based...
Just one year since its inception, T&G Fresh’s charity Fairgrow has today achieved the massive milestone of donating its one millionth kilogram of fresh produce to Kiwis in need across Aotearoa. Fairgrow has partnered with growers from across the country to...
In a New Zealand first, All Good and T&G Fresh have partnered to deliver the first Fairtrade and Zero Carbon certified bananas. T&G Fresh Managing Director, Andrew Keaney, says the company is proud to be leaders in the fresh produce industry - being the first...
The first apple to be commercially released from the Hot Climate Programme (which includes NZ based companies T&G Global and Plant & Food Research), is receiving rave reviews from growers in Italy, France and the UK, after a series of evaluations in 2020. A...
New Zealand’s leading fresh produce company, T&G Fresh, has today launched a new charity, Fairgrow, which will help get fresh fruit and vegetables to Kiwis in need. “COVID-19 has turned many people’s lives upside down and right now large numbers of Kiwis are...
New Zealand’s first large-scale food waste-to-bioenergy facility gets underway today at Reporoa, in the central North Island. Following the blessing of the land by Ngati Tahu-Ngati Whaoa, construction will begin on the new anaerobic digestion facility which is owned...
We’re delighted to announce that T&G Fresh is a foundation partner of the New Zealand Food Network (NZFN), a new Government-backed, not-for-profit organisation, providing much needed support to food hubs across New Zealand. Every day we see COVID-19 unfold and the...
The apple is the first to be launched from the Hot Climate Programme, a global pan-industry breeding programme, focused on the long-term sustainability of apple production in a changing climate. Peter Landon-Lane, T&G Global’s Director Innovation and Technical,...
T&G is thrilled to be the inaugural winners of the Sustainability award at Countdown’s annual Suppliers Awards. The company was praised for its commitment to sustainability, social, corporate and ethical responsibility along with health and safety. “Our...
The country’s first large-scale, waste-to-energy plant was announced by Minister Shane Jones at T&G’s covered crops facility at Reporoa today. The proposed purpose-built facility will take food waste from the region (and from T&G’s tomato vines), turn it into...
Janene Draper, co-founder of grocery store Farro Fresh, and her sister Leysa Ross, have founded the Waste-Not kitchen, a charity that is re-purposing good surplus food to nourish women staying at Women’s Refuge safe houses in Auckland. Quality surplus meat at their...
In a world-first, T&G Global is using a robotic harvester for a commercial apple harvest, reflecting the company’s commitment to innovation-led growth. It is the culmination of four years of working with US-based technology partner Abundant Robotics, which...
T&G was singled out as a top performer in the newly released Colmar Brunton report Better Futures Report The report is an annual survey of attitudes towards sustainability and highlights the value New Zealanders place on their natural environment. In the report,...
A very large and lovely ‘bunch’ of bananas are heading to beaches around the country this summer thanks to one of New Zealand’s largest and oldest fresh produce companies. T&G Global is delighted to again be supporting the aptly named Banana Boat New Zealand Ocean...
They are referred to as the ‘rock stars’ of New Zealand’s tomato industry for their “buzz pollination” (thousands of good-natured bumble bees pollinate every vine, the way nature intended), but now there’s a new buzz in the tomato world. Bee-pollinated tomato brand...
Watch our recent planting along the Kapiro Stream, where we've planted over 2000 native plants over the past two years. The T&G team in Kerikeri did an excellent job getting volunteers to attend and by preparing the site by clearing invasive species and laying...
The installation of retractable thermal screens in T&G Fresh’s Geraghty glasshouses in Tūākau, in the Waikato, is the latest milestone on T&G’s journey to reduce carbon emissions across its business. These screens, which were fully installed in late...
T&G Global has commissioned one of the largest apple packhouses in the Southern Hemisphere at its Whakatū site in Hawke’s Bay. The highly automated facility, with 1.7 hectares of roof space, will be able to pack more than 125 million kilograms of apples per season...
T&G Global today announced it has signed Aotearoa New Zealand’s first Sustainability-Linked Loan in the horticulture sector – borrowing $180 million. The three-year loan is the first of its kind in New Zealand horticulture, and commits T&G to a science-based...
Just one year since its inception, T&G Fresh’s charity Fairgrow has today achieved the massive milestone of donating its one millionth kilogram of fresh produce to Kiwis in need across Aotearoa. Fairgrow has partnered with growers from across the country to...
In a New Zealand first, All Good and T&G Fresh have partnered to deliver the first Fairtrade and Zero Carbon certified bananas. T&G Fresh Managing Director, Andrew Keaney, says the company is proud to be leaders in the fresh produce industry - being the first...
The first apple to be commercially released from the Hot Climate Programme (which includes NZ based companies T&G Global and Plant & Food Research), is receiving rave reviews from growers in Italy, France and the UK, after a series of evaluations in 2020. A...
New Zealand’s leading fresh produce company, T&G Fresh, has today launched a new charity, Fairgrow, which will help get fresh fruit and vegetables to Kiwis in need. “COVID-19 has turned many people’s lives upside down and right now large numbers of Kiwis are...
New Zealand’s first large-scale food waste-to-bioenergy facility gets underway today at Reporoa, in the central North Island. Following the blessing of the land by Ngati Tahu-Ngati Whaoa, construction will begin on the new anaerobic digestion facility which is owned...
We’re delighted to announce that T&G Fresh is a foundation partner of the New Zealand Food Network (NZFN), a new Government-backed, not-for-profit organisation, providing much needed support to food hubs across New Zealand. Every day we see COVID-19 unfold and the...
The apple is the first to be launched from the Hot Climate Programme, a global pan-industry breeding programme, focused on the long-term sustainability of apple production in a changing climate. Peter Landon-Lane, T&G Global’s Director Innovation and Technical,...
T&G is thrilled to be the inaugural winners of the Sustainability award at Countdown’s annual Suppliers Awards. The company was praised for its commitment to sustainability, social, corporate and ethical responsibility along with health and safety. “Our...
The country’s first large-scale, waste-to-energy plant was announced by Minister Shane Jones at T&G’s covered crops facility at Reporoa today. The proposed purpose-built facility will take food waste from the region (and from T&G’s tomato vines), turn it into...
Janene Draper, co-founder of grocery store Farro Fresh, and her sister Leysa Ross, have founded the Waste-Not kitchen, a charity that is re-purposing good surplus food to nourish women staying at Women’s Refuge safe houses in Auckland. Quality surplus meat at their...
In a world-first, T&G Global is using a robotic harvester for a commercial apple harvest, reflecting the company’s commitment to innovation-led growth. It is the culmination of four years of working with US-based technology partner Abundant Robotics, which...
T&G was singled out as a top performer in the newly released Colmar Brunton report Better Futures Report The report is an annual survey of attitudes towards sustainability and highlights the value New Zealanders place on their natural environment. In the report,...
A very large and lovely ‘bunch’ of bananas are heading to beaches around the country this summer thanks to one of New Zealand’s largest and oldest fresh produce companies. T&G Global is delighted to again be supporting the aptly named Banana Boat New Zealand Ocean...
They are referred to as the ‘rock stars’ of New Zealand’s tomato industry for their “buzz pollination” (thousands of good-natured bumble bees pollinate every vine, the way nature intended), but now there’s a new buzz in the tomato world. Bee-pollinated tomato brand...
Watch our recent planting along the Kapiro Stream, where we've planted over 2000 native plants over the past two years. The T&G team in Kerikeri did an excellent job getting volunteers to attend and by preparing the site by clearing invasive species and laying...
T&G Global has marked an energy saving milestone by signing a new collaboration agreement with EECA at its Whakatu pipfruit packing and storage site near Hastings. T&G Global Chief Executive Officer Alastair Hulbert and EECA Chief Executive Andrew Caseley...
The Fresh Produce Safety Centre Australia and New Zealand (FPSC) is pleased to welcome T&G Global as a new silver level supporter of the Centre. “T&G Global places huge emphasis on food safety and is passionate about freshness. Our company mission is to...
T&G Global staff in Kerikeri and Hastings, New Zealand, dug deep recently for a good cause. Around 70 staff from T&G swapped the planting of vegetables and fruit trees for more than 1400 native plants at two of its orchards. At T&G’s Kapiro Orchard in...