PMA Fresh Connections 2014 sponsors

CHEP offers managed returnable and reusable packaging solutions to companies across the globe. Since 1956, CHEP’s technology and know-how have helped some of the world’s best known brands including Procter & Gamble, SYSCO, Kellogg’s, Kraft, Nestle, Ford and GM get to market.

Foodstuffs is a genuine Kiwi success story. From early days in Auckland in 1922, we have grown to become New Zealand's biggest grocery distributor, and one of the country's largest organisations.

The Australian Chamber of Fruit and Vegetable Industries Limited is the national organisation representing each of the six Market Chambers, which themselves are organisations representing the fruit and vegetable wholesalers located in each of Australia’s six central Markets (Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth and Newcastle).

OneHarvest grows, packages and supplies pre-packed salads, stir fry vegetables, deli salads and Love Beets baby beetroot to supermarkets and greengrocers around Australia. We also market and sell avocadoes and B74 mangoes (under the Calypso® brand). We operate mango farms in the Northern Territory and a babyleaf farming operation in Tasmania.

MG Marketing, is a New Zealand based grower co-operative, marketing and supplying fresh produce to New Zealand, Australian and global consumer markets.

Monsanto’s Vegetable Seed brands are based on the unique challenges and specific growing conditions of our customers. Our Seminis® brand delivers outstanding growing potential through our open-field and unheated protected products, and De Ruiter™ does so through our heated, protected-culture vegetable and rootstock products.

Rabobank Australia & New Zealand is a part of the international Rabobank Group, the world’s leading specialist in food and agribusiness banking.

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Turners & Growers is considered a leading distributor, marketer and exporter of premium fresh produce – and New Zealand’s largest exporter of pipfruit such as our premium brands ENZA, ENVYTM and JAZZTM apples. Extensive international network of offices- South America, Asia, Europe, the UK, North America and Australia.

Visy is a leading, privately owned packaging and resource recovery company. Driven by innovation, Visy leads in speed to market through new packaging innovations.

Perfection Fresh has been growing fruit and vegetables for the Australian market for over 30 years. From a small plot in western Sydney where Tony Simonetta grew an assortment of little known Mediterranean vegetables for the family the business has exploded into an Australia wide proposition.

United Fresh has over 20 years’ experience supporting and promoting the fresh produce industry in New Zealand working with the entire produce value chain, from grower to consumer, providing leadership on pan-produce issues.

Countdown is New Zealand’s leading supermarket brand, serving more than 2.5 million customers every week

Compac Sorting Equipment, based in Auckland, New Zealand, is a leading supplier of sorting, packing, traceability and automation solutions to the global produce industry.