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T&G announces excellent start to 2024 JAZZ™ season
The first of the much-anticipated 2024 Aotearoa New Zealand-grown JAZZ™ apples are this week being picked ready for Kiwis and consumers around the world to enjoy. This season, T&G Global and its independent growers will collectively pick over 4 million tray carton...
Cyclone-related loss clouds positive strategic progress
At a glance: Revenue: $1.33 billion, up from $1.30 billion Operating (loss)/profit: ($45.6 million), down from $20.4 million Net loss before tax: ($64.2 million), down from ($3.3 million) Net loss after tax: ($46.6 million), down from ($0.9 million) The impact of...
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T&G Global Limited Announces New Leadership Appointments
The Board of T&G Global Limited (T&G) is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr Gareth Edgecombe as Chief Executive Officer (CEO). His commencement date is yet to be confirmed. Additionally, Mr Peter Landon-Lane has been appointed as Chief Operating Officer...
T&G Global confirms sale of processed foods business
T&G Global Limited (T&G) has today entered into a conditional sale and purchase agreement for the sale of the major assets of its subsidiary ENZAFoods New Zealand Limited (trading as T&G Foods) to Cedenco Foods New Zealand Limited (“Cedenco”). Under the...
Meet the man who lives and breathes tomatoes
T&G head grower manager Greg Prendergast loves the great outdoors. But, like many of our people at T&G, he’s taken his love of the land one step further than most and made working as a grower a successful career for over 30 years. Greg, a senior member of our...
Japan prepares to enjoy an apple a day with new JAZZ™ Apple Anniversary
Japanese apple lovers who enjoy an apple a day will be able to truly indulge themselves with Japan declaring 28 June as ‘JAZZ™ Apple Anniversary Day’. The date was chosen as it marks the date the first container load of New Zealand-grown JAZZ™ apples...
T&G continues growth path despite challenging year
T&G Global Limited (T&G) had plenty to celebrate in its 120th year despite climatic challenges which impacted its overall business result and contributed to a reduced profit after tax of $22.6m, down 30% on the previous year. The Group reported over a billion...
T&G Global doubles undergraduate scholarship support from 2018
T&G Global, formerly Turners and Growers, has doubled its support of undergraduate students studying at Massey University’s Palmerston North campus towards a degree in horticulture. Applications for the scholarships, worth up to $5,000 per year of study over three...
T&G delivers colourful new fruit range in Australia
Australians are on the road to accessing more healthy fruit thanks to leading fresh produce grower and marketer, T&G Global. Despite an increased focus on health and wellness, over 75% of Australians still don’t meet recommended daily intake of fruit and...
Retirement of Deputy Chairman – Sir John Anderson
T&G Global has announced that Sir John Anderson will retire from the Board of Directors, effective 14 December 2017. The highly respected New Zealand business leader was first appointed as a Director in April 2012, and as Deputy Chairman in December 2012. Over...
T&G re-cements commitment to growing horticulture sector
T&G Global has announced it has signed an extended five-year sponsorship agreement with the Royal NZ Institute of Horticulture Education Trust which runs the Young Horticulturalist of the Year competition. T&G has supported the annual competition since 2010,...
T&G Growing Green in Northland
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...
JAZZ™ Voted ‘UK’s Tastiest Apple’ at the National Fruit Show
With the coming UK season signifying the 10th anniversary of British grown JAZZ™ apples, Kent-based grower Peter Chandler has helped the special variety celebrate in style after his JAZZ™ won the much-coveted ‘Tastiest Apple’ title at the National Fruit...
It’s true – young kiwi kids really dig gardening!
The T&G Garden to Table Young Gardener of the Year Awards will run again next year, so keep your eyes out and keep those green fingers gardening! We received nearly 70 applications from primary schools and keen young gardeners aged between 7 and 11 years from all...
T&G Global Limited Considering Options To Exit Processed Foods
T&G Global Limited (T&G) announces that it is considering the potential sale of the business and/or assets of its food processing subsidiary ENZAFoods New Zealand Limited trading as T&G Foods. T&G’s strategy is to focus on its core business of growing,...
Lotatoes™ Takes Out Prestigious Food Awards
T&G’s Lotatoes™ has fended off four other food innovators to be crowned overall winner of The Ministry for Primary Industries Primary Sector Products Award at the 2017 New Zealand Food Awards. The category promotes, recognises and showcases amazing...
T&G Global Secures Exclusive Commercialisation Rights For Blueberry Varieties in Australia
T&G Global has become the license holder of a suite of 16 proprietary blueberry varieties in Australia, allowing it to better deliver to growing demand for berry fruit worldwide. The exclusive agreement represents one of the biggest collections of proprietary...
T&G Global and Montague Strengthen Ties
T&G Global has strengthened its relationship with long-term partner, Montague, based in Victoria, Australia. Montague is Australia’s leading producer and distributor of stone fruit. The two companies have enjoyed a positive commercial relationship for 15 years...
Envy™ Apples Healthy Addition to Fashion Week Line-Up
A healthy addition is set to headline Elle Fashion Week 2017 in Bangkok for the first time this season. Envy™, recently voted the favourite apple of Americans, and an increasingly popular healthy snack across Asia, has become the official drink and snack of...
The hunt is on for New Zealand’s Young Gardener of the Year
Following reports that over a third of Kiwi kids are overweight or obese*, Garden to Table and T&G are proud to be changing the way New Zealand children think about food with the launch of the inaugural T&G Garden to Table Young Gardener of the Year Awards....
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2017 Annual General Meeting
Speaking on behalf of Chairman Prof. Klaus Josef Lutz, Director John Wilson noted that the Company was this year celebrating 120 years in business. T&G had another very successful year in 2016, achieving record revenue of $872m, an increase of 7% on 2015. The...
T&G GLOBAL HITS THE SPOT WITH FERMENTED APPLE FLOUR
T&G Foods, a division of T&G Global, has signed an agreement with start-up business Green Spot Technologies to supply pomace to produce fermented apple flour. The new partnership between T&G Foods and Green Spot will commence with trial production of...
T&G Global saves energy with EECA
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...
New Board Appointment at T&G
The Board of T&G Global Limited (T&G) is pleased to announce the appointment of a new Director, Mr Mau Wah Liu. Mr Liu has more than 30 years of extensive experience in the produce industry and enterprise management. In 1998, he founded Golden Wing Mau...
Kiwi apple ‘Envy’ of others in USA
American’s have picked New Zealand-born Envy apple as their favourite in a consumer competition run by the U.S Apple Association. A total of 32 apple varieties vied for the top spot in the competition which ran throughout March and called on apple fans across the...
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T&G Global brings US grown blueberries to Vietnam for the first time.
The first pallet of Californian blueberries (192 trays), grown under T&G’s Orchard Rd brand, is on its way from LAX to Ho Chi Minh city this week. The company expects multiple pallets of Orchard Rd blueberries will be exported to Vietnam every week during the...
Jazz-ing up lunchboxes with JAZZ Snackers™
A fun-sized, sweet and tangy apple is set to take lunch boxes by storm when JAZZ™ Snackers is launched into the Asian market this season. JAZZ™ Snackers is the little sister of the premium, kiwi-bred variety JAZZ™, an award-winning apple from...
Marketer of the Year Award Finalist
T&G Global is delighted to be selected as one of five finalists in the PMA-Produce Plus Marketer of the Year Award 2019 (MOYA) for its work on the Orchard Rd. brand launch. The fresh fruit brand burst onto the Australian market a year ago with great...
NZ JAZZ apples off to Japan to JAZZ up Golden Week
Around 550 cartons of crisp JAZZ™ apples, fresh from the orchards of Hawkes Bay, are winging their way to Tokyo in Japan in time for the country’s biggest celebration – Golden Week, following this season’s New Zealand JAZZ™ harvest. The apples will be...
Spiced Apple & Dulce De Leche Bars
JAZZ-ify your Easter. Check out this delicious creation by Olivia Galletly of The Hungry Cook. Dulce de leche and spiced JAZZ™ apples are sandwiched between two layers of oat-y crumble biscuit. Happy Easter! Spiced Apple & Dulce De Leche Bars Olivia...
Powering up our home-grown heroes
Try 100 bananas, 80 oranges, 80 peaches, eight kilograms of grapes, 18 kilograms of JAZZ™ apples and 320 free range eggs – and that’s just one week! T&G Global, New Zealand’s largest grower, supplier and marketer of fresh produce has partnered with Vodafone...
World’s first commercial robotic apple harvest at T&G’s Hawkes Bay orchards
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...
NZ apple season looking rosy
The New Zealand apple season is looking rosy as warm summer temperatures and cooler autumn evenings bring on a rich colour and full flavour to the new season fruit. Hundreds of orchard workers have descended on the orchards of Hawke’s Bay, Nelson and Otago to pick and...
T&G singled out in sustainability report
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,...
Pioneer of pipfruit retires
T&G Global announces the retirement of Tony Fissette, the Managing Director of T&G Global's European unit, Enzafruit Continent. A pioneer of New Zealand pipfruit sales into Europe, Tony has worked passionately for T&G Global and New Zealand apple...
Global apple & pear breeding programme heats up
New, superior tasting apples and pears that can thrive in the planet’s increasingly warm climate will soon be available to fruit growers worldwide. T&G Global (formerly Turners & Growers) has joined Plant & Food Research, the Institute of Agriculture and...
T&G recognised as top employer
T&G’s Bruce Beaton, Kristen Nash and Maurice Windle were recognised with a "Highly Commended" at the Primary Industry Awards at NZ Parliament last night (November 27, 2018). Minister of Agriculture Damien O'Connor congratulated all the finalists and highlighted...
Swimmers go bananas thanks to T&G
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...
T&G saddened by passing of former Board member
The Board and management of T&G Global are greatly saddened to learn of the passing of Sir John Anderson KBE, former Deputy Chair and Director of the T&G Global Board. The highly respected New Zealand business leader was first appointed as a Director of...
Young viticulturist takes out Young Hort title
Annabel Bulk from Felton Road Wines in Bannockburn, Central Otago has taken out the title of New Zealand’s Young Horticulturist of the Year 2018. She wins the grand final after months of competition where the best and brightest stars of the industry go head-to-head in...
Graduate programme acknowledged
T&G Global’s human resources team has scooped the 2018 New Zealand Association of Graduate Employers (NZAGE) 'Best Graduate Development Programme' award, edging out industry the Ministry of Primary Industries, Xero and Beca. Initiated just two years ago, the...
Nutritious Nadia Lim pie fills the spot
A truckload of orange kumara, 25 kilograms of swedes and onions, and a heap of carrots from T&G’s market floor were transformed into a nutritious and delicious pie, created by renowned New Zealand chef Nadia Lim, for Kiwi school kids today. A group of Kiwi Mums...
From a small SEED to big success
A programme helping Hawke’s Bay locals, many of them solo parents, back into work is being praised by government and by those who work for T&G. Minister Carmel Sepuloni (Minister of Social Development) visited workers who are part of the SEED programme this week....