04 Mar 2025

Kiwiflier March 2025

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The March 2025 issue of Kiwiflier is attached and available online here.

This edition's key updates include:

  • A headline article on the industry hitting a major milestone, with fruit reaching 100 million+ households globally (p.1).
  • The final forecast for the 2024/25 season, which indicates Total Fruit and Service Payments are expected to reach $3 billion for the first time, with Zespri also exceeding our target set in 2015 of $4.5 billion in global revenue (p.1).
  • Jason’s CEO column, where he talks about getting future-fit to create even more value for growers out to 2035 (p.2).
  • An update and Q&A on the Loyalty as Shares (LaS) and Dividends as Shares (DaS) initiatives commencing this year (p.2 and p.3).
  • A 2025 licence release update which provides information on the timeline and the application process (p.4).
  • An update on the Gene Technologies Bill (p.12).


Other articles in this Kiwiflier include:

  • Further successful action over fraudulent use of Zespri’s IP in China
  • Kellogg Rural Leadership Programme: applications open
  • From the Markets
  • Zespri Global Supply
  • GET: The Month Ahead
  • Shares update
  • GAP: Audits to build consistency and trust for Zespri GAP
  • Farewelling Rachel Depree, Executive Officer for Sustainability
  • GOVOR® robot trial
  • Spray Diary update reminder: 2025 pool distribution policy for hail
  • KVH – What am I?
  • NZKGI – post-harvest transparency questions
  • Q&A from the field
  • Kiwifruit Breeding Centre Grower Tour

Also included in this month’s mailout is the 2025 Grower Payments Booklet – available here.

Check out other issues of Kiwiflier here