Category Archives: value-added food. processed food

Report brings facts for the fluffy functional foods and nutraceuticals industries

Posted on November 22, 2011 by

You have to give Coriolis top marks for what it has come up with in its food report for the Ministry of Economic Development on ‘Nutraceuticals & Foods for Health’. This paper hovers between information and knowledge, with enough observations … Continue reading →

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Time to read fine print of manuka research project specs

Posted on November 3, 2011 by

The puller-togetherer of the Manuka Research Partnership Ltd is reading the fine print of the Primary Growth Partnership contract with MAF. Neil Walker has no inside knowledge on whether the consortium’s biggest player, Comvita, will or won’t get taken over … Continue reading →

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Honey deal not so sweet

Posted on October 27, 2011 by

Sometimes it takes somebody else to bring to light the reason you’re uncomfortable with something. In this case, Wellington’s Vantage Consulting Group director David Miller has unearthed the nub of the challenge underneath the proposed buy-out of manuka honey (and … Continue reading →

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Chocolate gets social media attention

Posted on September 8, 2011 by

Anyone that fronts up and admits they’re still learning and don’t know everything, in this case about using social media in business, gets a sticK award for honesty. Which, ironically, is part of Whittaker’s Chocolates core values, and part of … Continue reading →

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High level ‘innovation’ thinking receives scant attention

Posted on August 4, 2011 by

At last, some slightly solid thinking about the innovation part of our economy. Sir Peter Gluckman’s under-reported speech on the ‘Globalisation of science: New Zealand’s R&D direction’ is the first tentative indication of some higher level views on how we … Continue reading →

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Agricultural commodity boom no good for branding

Posted on June 21, 2011 by

There is one downside from New Zealand agriculture and our economic future from the recent (and its appears ongoing) surge in primary products prices. It is delay, perhaps irretrievably, of consumer-centric changes required in the way we market, as opposed … Continue reading →

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There’s money in manuka honey, and trial aims to greatly increase it

Posted on May 19, 2011 by

There’s plenty of research on why manuka honey’s so useful from a medical and human health point of view. Equally we understand bees pretty well. The missing part of the puzzle, ironically, particularly as it is a plant that’s indigenous … Continue reading →

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Random points of interest from NZBio

Posted on March 24, 2011 by

Back from NZBio’s annual conference, with a tonne of notes and not sure how to make them all make sense. However, some random points of interest – unthemed.

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Who keeps a real eye on the ‘space’ beyond R&D

Posted on March 17, 2011 by

Nothing keeps an oversight of the New Zealand innovation ecosystem. Science and R&D gets a good looking to, but beyond this engine of ideas and discoverer of knowledge, the next parts are not as connected as they could be. What … Continue reading →

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Natural, sleep-enhancing product’s story a great yawn

Posted on February 18, 2011 by

The almost instant sell-out of New Image Group’s sleep-enhancing milk product in Taiwan late last year might at first glance be considered a bit of a fluke. But that success with one of milk’s ‘good bits’ had its genesis a … Continue reading →

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