Blog
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Fresh partnership with Turners & Growers for Garden to Table
Turners & Growers has partnered with the Garden to Table Trust to support primary schools throughout New Zealand with purpose-built gardens, volunteers and equipment. The Garden to Table Trust operates a curriculum integrated programme where children aged between seven and 10 are educated about food, horticulture and their natural environment. They are taught how to […]
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Preliminary Announcement re Half Year Result
Turners & Growers Limited is pleased to announce an unaudited half-year profit after tax of $7.1 million for the six months ended 30 June 2012, an increase of 2.2% on the result for the corresponding period last year. Turners & Growers posted an $18.9 million net loss for calendar 2011 because of $32.5 million of write-downs of […]
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Nikolai Macnee Wins $150,000 Baywa Reseach Scholarship
Nikolai Macnee, an Auckland University Student, has been awarded a NZD $150,000 scholarship from agricultural giant BayWa AG to complete a four year research-based PhD in the field of horticulture. The scholarship is the first of its kind for BayWa outside of Germany and sees the fulfilment of a commitment made during the purchase of […]
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ENZA Big Crunch
The ENZA Big Crunch, to be held on 10 May, will see around 20,000 school children biting into a Jazz apple and, hopefully, entering the pages of the Guinness Book of World Records by successfully beating the record for the most people eating an apple at the same time. Global Marketing Manager Rosstan Mazey said […]
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Bonita Bananas Extended Range
Whether they’re yellow like the sun, freckled with sugar spots, or a little bit red – Bonita are the premium banana brand for quality and taste. Bonita bananas are grown in Ecuador – the largest banana exporting country in the world, renowned for their near perfect banana growing climate and conditions. Once picked, the bananas […]
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Turners & Growers announces new growth strategy
Turners & Growers has announced a new blueprint to generate further growth for the company and drive improvements for growers, customers and consumers. The company, New Zealand’s leading distributor and marketer of fresh produce, has launched a new corporate strategy as it looks to grow both its international and domestic markets. Alastair Hulbert, Chief Executive, […]
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Turners & Growers announces the acquisition of Apollo Apples Ltd
Turners & Growers Limited announced today the proposed acquisition of Hawkes Bay-based Apollo Apples for an initial payment of NZ$36.05million. The acquisition of Apollo, which grows, packs and exports approximately 1.4m cartons of apples every year and owns or leases over 500 planted hectares of apple orchards in the Hawke’s Bay, forms a key […]
