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T&G’s Grace Rehu wins Ahuwhenua Young Māori Grower Award
Grace Rehu, a Leading Hand at T&G Global in Hawke’s Bay, took home the 2023 Ahuwhenua Young Māori Grower Award at the prestigious Awards on Friday night. The Ahuwhenua Young Māori Farmer and Grower award, established in 2012, recognises and celebrates Māori...
T&G commissions state-of-the-art automated Hawke’s Bay packhouse
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...
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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....
Road Closures
Arthur’s Pass & Lewis Pass are currently closed, for the most up to date information please click on the NZTA website below https://www.journeys.nzta.govt.nz/traffic/?layers=road-closures
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...
T&G GLOBAL ACHIEVES 67% INCREASE IN PROFIT AFTER TAX
HORTICULTURE LEADER ON TRACK TO ACHIEVE NZ$2 BILLION REVENUE BY 2022 T&G Global Limited and its subsidiary companies (T&G Global) achieved a profit after income tax of $32.4 million for its 2016 financial year (January to December), a 67 per cent increase on...
T&G Global marks start of 120 years in business
T&G Global has celebrated the start of its 120th year in business at Fruit Logistica in Berlin. What began as a small fruit auctioneer in New Zealand in 1897 is now an international vertically integrated grower, picker, packer, shipper, trader and marketer of...
Fresh Produce Safety Centre welcomes T&G Global as a new silver supporter
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...
The hunt is on for New Zealand’s most outstanding food region
T&G Global (formerly Turners and Growers) is supporting a new search to find New Zealand’s Outstanding Produce. The 2017 Outstanding New Zealand Food Producer Awards are being run by Marvellous Marketing and NZ Life & Leisure Magazine to hunt out the country’s top...
Ferry Levy
Due to recent natural disasters in the South Island, the Interislander has increased its rate. In turn, we have had to do the same. Please see the attached link for more information on this increase: Ferry Levy Details
South Island Road Closures
The T&G Transport team have been working hard to resume services between the North and South Island, which have been delayed due to the unfortunate earthquake event in the South Island in the early hours of Monday morning. Please see the attached link for more...
T&G fully operational post quakes
T&G Global sends it thoughts to everyone impacted by the earthquakes overnight. Our people are all safe and our business is fully operational with no damage to our market sites specifically Palmerston North, Wellington, Nelson, Christchurch and Dunedin. If any of...
T&G dig deep and swaps vegies for native tree plantings
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...
T&G Global goes mobile
T&G Global has launched what it believes is the world’s first online ordering platform for the wholesale produce sector. FirstPick.co.nz was developed in-house by T&G's IT team and enables New Zealand-based wholesale customers to order fresh fruit and...
T&G Global announces half-year result
T&G Global announces half-year result T&G Global Limited is pleased to announce a profit after tax for the first six months of 2016 of $22.7m, compared to $12.0m in the first six months of 2015. T&G achieved revenue of $423 million for the six months...
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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....
There’s a new buzz on the vine – we’re saying goodbye to plastic tomato punnets
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...
Budding young growers unearthed
New Zealand’s budding young gardeners and schools have been unearthed after some serious digging by a judging panel including acclaimed chef and restauranteur Al Brown and landscaper and TV personality Dan Mackay. T&G is proud to have supported the 2018 Young...
Envy™ inducing gift boxes for full moon celebrations
Envy™ is proving hot in balmy Hong Kong thanks to a new Mid-Autumn Festival promotion at 75 Park n Shop stores across the territory. It’s the first time Envy™ has been activated in Hong Kong stores and the feedback has been overwhelmingly positive. The...
T&G announces CFO change
T&G Global today announced it will farewell its chief financial officer, Wolfgang Loose and welcome a replacement over the coming weeks. Wolfgang Loose will leave the business mid-November after nearly two years in his role. He joined T&G from BayWa, a...
Envy shines at Elle Fashion Week
Envy™ has taken centre stage at Elle Fashion Week Fall/Winter in Bangkok for a second year in a row, refreshing fashionistas with delicious fresh apples and tasty apple pastry treats. Envy™, the official apple of Elle Fashion Week since 2017, was in the...
Australian strawberry update
T&G Global is aware of an issue with contamination of some strawberries coming from farms in Queensland. T&G doesn’t import strawberries from any of the affected farms into New Zealand or sell this fruit in Australia. T&G has full confidence in its...
Lotatoes™ potatoes ‘roasts’ competition at TVNZ – NZ Marketing awards
T&G’s award-winning, lower carb and calorie Lotatoes™, launched last year, has scooped yet another top award at a sold out TVNZ–NZ Marketing Awards at the Cordis hotel in Auckland. Now in their 27th year, the awards celebrate those who not only deliver on...
We’re Front Row at Fashion Week
While designer outfits will be turning heads on the runway, Lotatoes™ and Beekist® will be tantalising taste buds backstage at New Zealand Fashion Week (NZFW). Our mouth-watering, bee-pollinated Beekist® tomatoes and our new low carb Lotatoes™ feature on...
T&G congratulates Cedenco Foods
T&G Global has congratulated Cedenco Foods New Zealand for being named as ExportNZ Hawke’s Bay ASB Exporter of the Year for 2018. The Gisborne-based business was presented with the award by the head of trade finance at ASB Bank, Mike Atkins, at a sold-out awards...
Orchard Rd heads into homes with Everyday Gourmet
Less than seven months after bursting onto the Australian fresh fruit scene, Orchard Rd is heading to the big screen. The premium fruit brands’ Gold Kiwis will feature on Network 10’s Everyday Gourmet show from this Friday (3 August) in recipes created and showcased...