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NEW Zealand hopes to increase the presence of its food and beverage products in Cebu, citing opportunities in the growing tourism sector.
“The idea of joining the expo is to have a better feel of the Cebu market,” said New Zealand Trade and Enterprise (NZTE) commissioner to Manila Ramoncito Bernales on the sidelines [...]

CEBU, Philippines – Cebu’s growing tourism industry has prompted the government of New Zealand to strengthen and expand its presence in the province after seeing Cebu as a viable commercial market for the country’s food and beverage products.
In an interview, New Zealand Trade and Enterprise (NZTE) regional director for South and Southeast [...]

CEBU, Philippines – Companies in the food and beverage sector of New Zealand are here in Cebu to strengthen and create new business ties with its counterpart in the industry as well as showcase to the Cebuanos more of the food and beverages the country is producing.
The New Zealand Trade and Enterprise [...]

Dairy giant Fonterra will increase its online trading auction from once a month to twice from September in a bid to increase its customer base and be more transparent with its pricing, the company announced yesterday.
The globalDairyTrade platform was introduced in 2008 and has been successful with bidders. There are 280 [...]

Fonterra has announced that from September 2010 the globalDairyTrade trading manager, CRA International , will increase the frequency of trading events to twice a month. Kelvin Wickham, Fonterra Managing Director Global Trade, said the increase in frequency was a significant milestone that highlighted globalDairyTrade’s success as an online trading platform [...]

New Zealand’s Fonterra Cooperative Group, the world’s biggest dairy exporter, said international milk prices eased for the second month in a row at its latest auction, although the outlook for prices remained positive.
Fonterra said on Wednesday said its Global Dairy Trade-Trade Weighted Index at its latest Internet auction fell 3.5 percent, [...]

By ALAN KOZIARSKI
FOR the past 40 years the Singaporean government has advocated study hard, get ahead. And it has worked. Exceptionally. But in an economically and environmentally changing world, the government is now highlighting the importance of innovation, implementing a raft of programmes across universities and industries, including the [...]

Fonterra farmers waiting on their second-highest payout in the season just ending have been told their average cheque for next season may soar to record heights - around $1 million each - as the earnings available for payout surges to $8/kg of milksolids, or more.
The cooperative’s existing record amount available for payout [...]

Budget comments re SME sector – Bizzone, The National Bank - Harveys
As New Zealand’s largest event for business, the Bizzone Business Expo prepares to open, (2-4June) organiser Sarah Trotman, champion of SMEs, says she believes most of the 13,000 business owners expected at the event will be hoping for company tax breaks in tomorrow’s Budget.
“Business [...]

A New Zealand food testing and biosecurity services company is expanding its horizons as it identifies a growing demand for its services, especially in Asia.
AsureQuality, a state-owned enterprise, has been operating in Australia for some time.
With dairy cooperative Fonterra, it has a 50% shareholding in that country’s biggest food testing laboratory.
AsureQuality has also opened a [...]