Investor’s Guide 2020

A guide to the New Zealand Food & Beverage Industry

Who are the top 200 food & beverage companies in New Zealand? How are they performing? Where is investment occuring? The guide outlines the growth opportunities and highlights recent activity in the sector.   Food and beverage exports are important to New Zealand and the country is a major F&B exporter. The food and beverage industry accounts for 46% of all goods and services exports. The New Zealand food and beverage industry has a combined revenue of $71.7 billion (2018/19)*. Industry-wide investment has driven scale, efficiencies and the continued development of high value categories.  New Zealand is a young country still discovering its comparative advantages and new industries continue to emerge. In the past twenty years New Zealand wine, honey, aquaculture and avocados have all emerged from almost nothing into world leading sectors.

Nov 2019