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Essential stories, analysis and research from the fresh produce markets in Australia and New Zealand, with a focus on retail, wholesale, marketing, and consumers.
IFPA ANZ announce partnership with The Wiggles
The children’s entertainers join national push to get children eating more fruit and veg
Market price reporting platform FreshData launches at Hort Connections
Platform allows users to track daily price highs and lows, volume trends, and distribution patterns across Australia’s major central markets.
Apal announces 2025 Awards for Excellence honouring apple and pear industry leaders
Growers and industry professionals from across Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia and Western Australia recognised for outstanding contributions
Horticulture Awards for Excellence finalists announced
Winners to be announced at Hort Connections Gala Dinner of 6 June
Prevar launches New Zealand’s first pinky-red fleshed apple
Small volumes of the Fizz to be released to key markets this season
Melbourne Market rent standoff comes to an end
Melbourne Market Authority signs new lease agreements with all 17 end-of-term tenants ending rent review process
Produce Plus Winter out now!
The Hort Connections special edition is now available on the new Produce Plus app featuring a Q&A with The Packaging Hippie Gilad Sadan, the Produce Plus-NielsenIQ Top 20 and features on packaging, grading, citrus and kiwifruit
All Aussie Farmers to bring The Purple Tomato to Australia
Australian premium produce distributor partners with US-based developer of The Purple Tomato, Norfolk Healthy Produce, on Australian commercial distribution
Seeka Marketer of the Year Award finalists announced
Top three campaigns to be showcased at 2025 Seeka Marketer of the Year Showcase at Hort Connections in Brisbane
Australian avocado industry comes together for annual forum
Sold-out programme features speakers from Guzman Y Gomez, Thinkerbell and the Shanghai Markets among others
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Trade mission puts Australian horticulture on show
Around 40 fresh produce buyers from key export markets in Asia-Pacific and Middle East will tour growers, processors and retailers in southern Queensland
IGD report forecasts discounter success
The analyst’s latest five-year forecast to 2029 shows that discount will be the fastest growing physical grocery channel globally, with a sales CAGR of 5.2 per cent
Zespri exceeds NZ$5bn in global sales
Kiwifruit marketer sells 220.9mn trays of fruit and delivers record returns to growers as it passes its 2025 goal set a decade ago
Hort Connections brings industry to Brisbane
Australia and New Zealand’s largest horticulture conference and trade show prepares for another bumper edition with over 4,000 delegates expected
Montague Farms launches Envy and Yello seasons
Branded apple offerings roll out to Australian shelves from May
Zespri’s new marketing campaign brings value message to consumers
Kiwi Brothers return to front Asia-wide promotional push, as marketer attempts to change perceptions of its premium products
Nutrano Produce successfully trials compostable fruit stickers
Compostable design made in partnership with leading labelling company Sinclair
Ole Supermarket hosts Piqa Red tasting activations
Activations part of Prevar’s efforts to develop the China market for the newly rebranded red pear
Hort Connections brings industry to Brisbane
Australia and New Zealand’s largest horticulture conference and trade show prepares for another bumper edition with over 4,000 delegates expected
Sun World debuts Ruby Rush as it ushers in early grape season
The early-season red seedless grape is “proving its value to growers” and is now cultivated in ten countries, with production expanding