Long-term Kepler Challenge sponsor FreshChoice installed a pop-up supermarket station near the last stretch of the 60km Fiordland race.
A new wine festival in Hastings next year will incorporate masterclasses and experiences into the one-day event.
Coca-Cola Christmas in the Park will return in 2023 for what will be its 29th year, having started in 1994.
The New Zealand Agricultural Show in Canterbury – otherwise known as the Christchurch Show – celebrates its 160th anniversary this week.
This year the NZ Agricultural Show in Christchurch will this year feature a dedicated Aquaculture Tent for the fist time in its 160-year history.
Central Otago’s annual food and beverage celebration, Eat.Taste.Central, is back for another two-week festival of flavour showcasing the best of the region’s food and wine.
The country’s second annual rural telethon, The Big Feed, is coming back in December 2023.
More than 10,000 people are expected at the annual Kāpiti Food Fair this year.
Six of the country’s finest butchers have been named as part of New Zealand’s national butchery team to will compete at the World Butchers’ Challenge which takes place in Paris in March 2025.
Vow Group chief executive and co-founder George Peppou and Food Standards Australia New Zealand principal toxicologist and risk assessor Dr Nick Fletcher are key speakers at the upcoming AltProteins 23 conference.
The 30th annual Toast Martinborough is expected to attract 100,000 people in November.
Hospitality New Zealand has welcomed legislation that allows venues to extend trading hours without having to apply for a special licence so patrons can watch live televised Rugby World Cup matches.
The latest Fine Food New Zealand event attracted record numbers of exhibitors and delegates, according to organiser XPO Exhibitions.
The Ministry for the Environment and the New Zealand Food and Grocery Council are hosting a webinar on the Waste Action and Investment Plan.
Food-truck market Pop Up Eats Horowhenua is returning from Wednesday 19 July 2023.
Northland’s first Brew of Islands beer festival will be held in Kerikeri this month with an array of food, brews and drinks for locals and visitors.
Hundred of delegates are descending on a snowy Dunedin for the New Zealand Institute of Food Science and Technology’s annual conference.
NZ’s food industry converges on Auckland for the country’s largest hospitality, food retail and food service event.
NZ Brewers Fest 2023 is taking place at Upper Hutt’s Brewtown on Saturday 14 October.
The Aotearoa Food Rescue Alliance (AFRA), in partnership with Foodstuffs North Island, has run a series of hui, uniting its food rescue members from across the North Island.
More than 250 exhibitors will converge at Auckland Showgrounds next month for Fine Food New Zealand, the biennial hospitality, food retail and foodservice trade event.
Foodomics 2024 will be held at the newly-opened Tākina Convention and Exhibition Centre in Wellington next year.
Renowned international restaurant consultant, Chip Klose, has been announced as the keynote speaker for Hospo Hui 2023.
Confirmed speakers for the E Tipu IFAMA 2023 World Conference run the gauntlet of leaders and innovators from across the food system.
New Zealand Cheese Festival is returning to Blenheim to tie in with NZ Cheese Month.
Visa Wellington On a Plate’s Producer Marketplace will return to the capital on Monday 17 April after a two-year hiatus with the backing of ANZ.
E Tipu The Boma Agri Summit will be held in Manawatū in 2024, as part of a new year-about hosting partnership between the North Island region and Christchurch.
More than 44,000 people attended the 86th Wānaka A&P Show on Friday and Saturday after a two-year hiatus, injecting more than $28m into the local economy.
The biennial business-to-business Foodstuffs Expo is set to take place at Claudelands Events Centre Hamilton over 8 and 9 March.
Secondary students from the lower and mid-North Island interested in careers in food and fibre will be in Palmerston North on Friday, March 10th, for Agri Futures, Ahuwhenua ki te Anamata.
The Otago Farmers Market is marking its 20 year milestone by hosting a Long Lunch showcasing producers and celebrating the connections made through food.
The webinar series is designed to help FMCG leaders through the “significant” immediate and longer-term impacts of Cyclone Gabrielle.
Visa Wellington On a Plate has announced the return of the Chef Collaboration Series presented by Singapore Airlines after a three year hiatus.
The growth potential of the avocado market remains very strong, however, production is developing too quickly now, according to international researcher Eric Imbert.
Last year 30,000 people said bought flowers to mark Valentine’s Day, with sales for bunches picking up in the week of February 14 and nearly half – or some 45% – of those being sold on the day itself.
The Sanitarium Weet-Bix Central Eat Auckland Tryathlon has been rescheduled due to water safety concerns.
The eighth New Zealand Rosé Day will celebrate New Zealand’s fastest-growing wine style this Sunday 5 February.
The inaugural Roam Central wine and food celebration has been hailed a success after it attracted more than 1,500 people to venues across Queenstown, Arrowtown, Gibbston, Wānaka, Bendigo, Bannockburn, Clyde and Pisa.
Roam Central is a new four-day wine and food event set amongst the vines of Central Otago and the Southern Lakes.
Wine Nelson’s premier annual tasting event is back this week with a bigger venue and more on offer in 2022.
Beervana will return 18 – 19 August 2023 at the Sky Stadium.
Wine Nelson’s premier annual tasting event is back with a bigger venue and more on offer this year.
Babich Wines has been named the official wine sponsor for the ASB Classic summer tennis fixture in Auckland.
The largest gathering of South Australian wine, food, and spirits producers and exporters in many years is heading to Auckland next month.
Nominations are now open for Aucklanders to nominate their favourite dish for the 2022 Iconic Auckland Eats list.
Ōtautahi Christchurch’s post-Covid Turn up the Heat festival in August saw more than 50 central city hospitality joints join a fiery food competition, each offering a different spicy dish or drink.
The second New Zealand Food Waste Summit is heading to Wellington on 29 September, bringing together players from across the food chain to brainstorm how innovation can reduce food waste while also addressing food security.
The International Cool Climate Wine Symposium 2026 will be held in Christchurch, with an estimated 500 wine specialists from around the world expected to meet.
At least seven new producers joining the 2022 Horowhenua Taste Trail when gates open early on Saturday November 26.
Peter Gordon’s food embassy, Homeland, is hosting Kai Pasifika – a celebration of Blue Pacific cuisine in October.
The Wellington Culinary Events Trust has cancelled this year’s Highball festival, which was scheduled to take place on 23 & 24 September 2022.
Beer lovers from around the world made the pilgrimage to Wellington’s SKY Stadium this weekend for the ‘21st’ Beervana.
Registrations have opened for this year’s Hospitality Championships, supported by NZ Chefs Association as part of the Hospitality Summit 22.
Auckland will host the 2035 Oceania Summit at the Aotea Centre from 10 – 11 October.
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The Food Show returns to the Garden City this August 19 – 21 at Christchurch Arena.
Auckland’s annual food show has been postponed until next year due to uncertainty over the Auckland Showgrounds venue.
The annual Chocolate and Coffee Festival returns to The Cloud in Auckland on 10 – 11 September.
After a two year hiatus, the New Zealand Hospitality Conference is back taking place at the Grand Millennium in Auckland starting tomorrow.
Ōtautahi Christchurch’s Central City is bringing the heat this August with a festival of 60-plus events ranging from roaming characters, comedy, cabaret, drag, variety shows and a fiery food competition.
New Zealand’s cocktail and spirits festival – Highball presented by Liquorland – returns to Wellington this September.
University of Otago’s Food Waste Research will next week be hosting the Prime Minister’s Chief Science Advisor, Dame Juliet Gerrard, and her team for a two day visit.
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To kick off Visa Wellington On a Plate 2022, a mechanics workshop will be transformed into The Sea Breeze Inn, a pop-up restaurant serving sustainably-sourced kaimoana from across Aotearoa New Zealand.
The Restaurant Association has secured Canadian chef and entrepreneur Eric Pateman as one of the keynote speaker to discuss the possibilities the industry’s recovery at its upcoming Hospo Hui.
Citrus NZ has set a date for what will be its first in-person conference in three years following Covid cancellations.
Marking its 21st birthday this year, Beervana has already locked in more than 70 breweries set to take part in NZ’s biggest celebration of beer.
Hundreds of beekeepers, and others from the apiculture industry, will gather in Christchurch this month for ApiNZ’s sixth annual conference and trade exhibition.
The New Zealand Hospitality Conference has added two more star hospitality figureheads to its lineup this year.
The capital’s annual annual month long food festival, Visa Wellington on a Plate, will include 120 events and pop-ups being held under the 2022 theme A State of Flux.
The Great Australasian Beer Spectacular is returning to Auckland on 25 June.
For the month of May, participating Auckland restaurants and bars will be celebrating the Eat, Drink, Love Ponsonby 2022.
New Zealand wine festival Winetopia has added more events to its three-city schedule.
Australia and New Zealand’s first alternative proteins conference, AltProteins, takes place in Melbourne today.
The New Zealand Hospitality Conference is back in-person in July after a two-year hiatus and with a theme of “The Future of Hospitality”.
The Wellington Food Show is back, taking place 27 – 29 May at Sky Stadium, following a Covid-induced absence.
Mark your calendars for E Tipu 2022: The Boma Agri Summit, with a special ticket offer for Food Ticker readers.
The countdown is on for the two-day hybrid Eat New Zealand Hui + Eat NZ Grains 2022 being held in Ōtautahi Christchurch this week, Tuesday and Wednesday.
Service Foods has cancelled its 2022 trade shows.
The 2022 New Zealand AgriFood Talks event has been cancelled because of the Omicron outbreak.
Bay of Plenty produce will be in the spotlight at the region’s inaugural food festival next month.
This year’s Boma Agri Summit in Christchurch on 21-22 June will host speakers from the US and UK.
Eat New Zealand has secured up to $275,000 of government funding to support its multi-day Feast Matariki festival.
Again Again is holding a free seminar on moving to reuse as a systemic replacement to single-use container packaging.
New Zealand’s largest wine event will be heading to three main centres later this year.
Hellmann’s mayo, Mexican avocados, Lay’s chips and Bud seltzer were among the advertisers forking out US$6m+ for TV spots during the weekend’s Super Bowl.
Wanaka’s food and wine festival has been cancelled this year because of the current red-light Covid-19 restrictions.
A Bay of Plenty food event plans to go ahead despite current Covid-19 restrictions.
The West Coast’s Wildfoods Festival has been scrapped, the first time in its 34-year history, due to Covid capacity restrictions at the red setting.
After running the inaugural event in 2021, New Zealand Winegrowers will be kicking off the second New Zealand Wine Week on 8 February 2022.
Chia Sisters co-founder Chloe Van Dyke is one of five female entrepreneurs selected to pitch at Rise Up for a $10,000 prize.
A festival of carbon-zero New Zealand food will run alongside a new event in Auckland next year addressing the world’s agrifood climate challenge.
The Kāpiti Food Fair has been cancelled due to Covid uncertainty.
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The annual Eat New Zealand and Restaurant Association Food Hui is under way.
Eat New Zealand and the Restaurant Association have made the decision to move their Food Hui 2021 online.
Prime minister Jacinda Ardern is one of more than 90 world leaders who are set to participate in the historic UN Food Systems Summit next week.
Eat New Zealand and The Restaurant Association have postponed this year’s Food Hui until 1 and 2 November.
With New Zealand remaining in lockdown until at least Tuesday 24 August, Zespri’s scheduled grower roadshows starting today, 23 August have been postponed.
Visa Wellington On a Plate’s intends to restart Burger and Cocktail Wellington at Level 2 for those venues who choose or are able to take part, after the event was scuppered by alert level 4 lockdown.
Danny Meyer will be one of the keynote speakers at the inaugural New Zealand Hospitality Summit at the Trusts Arena in Auckland on 8-9 September.
BioTechNZ and AgriTechNZ are leading an event addressing cell-based agriculture which can create food products from cell cultures as opposed to whole plants or animals.
SkyCity restaurant Huami is staging an immersive cultural experience in conjunction with Heart of the City’s Elemental Festival in Auckland.
A handful of Food & beverage events from across the country have made the shortlist for the 2021 NZ Events Association New Zealand Event Awards after a record 108 entries were received.
Uncertainty surrounds events scheduled for Auckland’s ASB Showgrounds after the venue suddenly announced its liquidation on Tuesday.
The Riddet Institute is today hosting Feed our Future: A New Zealand Sustainable Food Systems Dialogue.
Annual trade show and conference confirmed for 7-9 June despite Victoria lockdown.
Marlborough Bayleys Friday Night Feast is back for 2021, showcasing the region’s food, wine and other beverages.
It was the first time the event would take place in two years.
A team of second year Wintec Culinary Arts students will deliver the Leading the Way Lunch at Wintec, as part of the Feast Waikato Festival.
The Food Show Christchurch will make its returning this April after Covid saw the event cancelled in 2020.
The event was expected to attract more than 200 local and international exhibiting companies and 4000+ qualified visitors.
There will be 40 lots of wine, many of which were being specially blended, at this year’s event.
Southland will host the Savour the South – Eat Drink Play & Stay event, as the region looks to elevate its reputation as a food and beverage destination.
New Zealand’s inaugural Food Waste Summit, Te Hui Taumata Moumou Kai o Aotearoa, will take place at Villa Maria Winery on Monday 22 March.
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