A pinch with a punch
Date: 26 Jan 2012Waitrose Cooks’ Ingredients herbs and spices exclusive to Nosh Great chefs and home cooks alike love simple ingredients that make kitchen tasks easier and more delicious – now Nosh brings two new products that take domestic kitchens into gourmet territory. The Waitrose Cooks’ Ingredients range is a selection of the finest herbs and spices (with organic and wild varieties) in stylish, convenient packaging that will add flavour to any kitchen pantry. ... more
Commerce Commission to monitor milk pricing
Date: 24 Jan 2012Competition watchdog the Commerce Commission will annually monitor milk pricing in New Zealand under a raft of Government proposals announced today to rein in Fonterra's market power and restore public confidence in the milk market. Primary Industries Minister David Carter said Fonterra, which controls about 90 per cent of the raw milk market in this country, would also be required to publicly disclose information about how its sets its milk price, and the farmer-owned dairy cooperative ... more
DB announces price increases
Date: 17 Jan 2012DB Breweries (DB) has advised its customers that it will be implementing a price increase for its products from 5th March 2012. DB is increasing the price of its pack products (beer and cider) by 3% on average and its tap products by 1%. The cost of DB’s ready-to-drink brands (RTDs) will also rise by 4% on average from the same date. DB Breweries’ managing director Brian Blake says the increases are a direct result of escalating costs from the procurement of raw ... more
Food prices up 0.2 percent in December 2011
Date: 16 Jan 2012Food prices rose 0.2 percent in December 2011, Statistics New Zealand said today. Higher prices for fruit and vegetables (up 2.5 percent) and meat, poultry, and fish (up 1.2 percent) countered a fall for nonalcoholic beverages (down 2.5 percent). In December 2011, prices were higher for potatoes (up 14 percent), pumpkin (up 75 percent), and apples (up 14 percent). Higher pumpkin prices reflected a supply shortage. Strawberries recorded seasonally lower prices – down 21 percent for ... more
DB Export Gold-en summer of fishing
Date: 19 Dec 2011This summer DB Export is casting out a line with a new on-pack, giveaways and an online quiz. New for the hot sunny months is the ‘Catch of the Day’ on-pack for both DB Export Gold and DB Export 33, which includes fish and fishing giveaways which are sure to catch the attention of those looking to enjoy the great kiwi pastime of a day’s fishing and ‘embellishments’ around the barbecue afterwards this summer. DB Export ‘Catch of the ... more
Cream of the crop: Nosh Hamilton Pavlova Competition winner announced
Date: 19 Dec 2011Jackie Bennett (above, centre) has produced the overall winning Pav in Nosh Food Market’s first annual Waikato Pavlova competition. The secret to a winning pav: “Put it in a hot oven at 180 degrees for five minutes, then turn the oven off and leave the pav inside for one hour. And that’s it,” says Jackie. The inaugural competition involved 15 “exceptional” entries according to judges Mayor Hardaker, Vanilla café owner and food ... more
Food prices up slightly in November
Date: 13 Dec 2011Food prices rose 0.2 percent in November 2011, Statistics New Zealand said today. A seasonal fall in the price of fruit and vegetables (down 4.0 percent) was countered by rising prices in other subgroups, including grocery food, which rose 0.7 percent. "Grocery food prices rose in November after three consecutive monthly falls," Statistics NZ prices manager Chris Pike said. Prices were seasonally lower for lettuce (down 33 percent), tomatoes (down 23 percent), and strawberries ... more
EGGS cracks it: the Nosh Pavlova Competition
Date: 6 Dec 2011Fourteen year old Epsom Girls Grammar School (EGGS) student Alexa Hindson has produced the overall winning recipe in Nosh Food Market’s third annual home-made pavlova competition. And to cap off a cracking good day for the Auckland school, Alexa also took out the children’s section while fellow student Britta van Thiel was runner up. The girls’ teacher Kathy Henley-Smith was runner up in the overall section. The winner of the Best Dressed pavlova prize was ... more
Slim odds of home brand war here
Date: 24 Nov 2011As a row brews over the growing dominance of private label products in Australian supermarkets, industry players in New Zealand say there is only a slim chance the same will happen here. Across the Tasman the giant Coles and Woolworths supermarket chains reported plans to more than double the number of private label - or home brands - on their shelves. That's caused Heinz, one of the world's biggest food manufacturers, to call Australia the "worst market'' globally to deal with,and ... more
NZ's best butchery?
Date: 22 Nov 2011Ashby’s Butchery of Christchurch has completed an outstanding set of competition results for 2011, surely giving it every justification to claim the title of the country's best butchery. In August this year, premium dry-cured Murrellen loin bacon produced by Ashby's Butchery was awarded the titles of Cabernet Foods Ltd 100% New Zealand Bacon of the Year, and Supreme 100% NZ Bacon of the Year. In its fourth year, the 100% New Zealand Bacon Competition saw 152 entries from 62 ... more
