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Scale NZ
Mar 45 min read
Peanut butter: Who controls your primary driver of purchase?
Growth isn’t just about more stores or lower prices—it’s about ensuring consumers perceive your brand as available and is right for them.
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Scale NZ
Feb 243 min read
Gender Polarity in Branding: Does Your Brand Unintentionally Lean Male or Female?
When a brand resonates more with one gender, it may be losing traction with the other.
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Scale NZ
Jan 302 min read
Is Online Sentiment Melting Tip Top’s Reputation?
Is Tip Top’s New Range Putting Its Brand Equity at Risk? For decades, Tip Top has been synonymous with Kiwi summers and childhood...
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Scale NZ
Dec 16, 20244 min read
Not a hard nut to crack
Sanitarium’s exit from peanut butter will lift the duopoly, Pics, and Nut Brothers the most
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Scale NZ
Aug 21, 20242 min read
NZ's small food and drink businesses eye sales growth in Australia, cool on China
Sales growth is the top priority for the vast majority (92%) of NZ's small F&B makers.
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Scale NZ
Aug 19, 20242 min read
Would you pay $160 a year to know the pork you eat is humanely farmed?
We estimate it would cost NZ$160 more per year, per pork consumer, if all the pork they consumed was humanely farmed.
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Mike Underhill
Aug 15, 20241 min read
Wine & Food tourism – more need to know
Most of NZ's best food and drink establishments could get a free tourism boost, but aren't. The crew at Tourism New Zealand have a...
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Scale NZ
Aug 1, 20248 min read
A crash diet for farmers: weight loss drugs will impact NZ red meat & dairy exports
As weight loss drugs gain traction overseas, New Zealand’s export-driven agricultural sector must adapt or face revenue loss.
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Scale NZ
Jul 9, 20242 min read
Know your competitors. Whole-category brand equity research in New Zealand for just $1,990*.
Essential brand insights in cereal, honey, peanut butter, donuts, kombucha, RTE meals, dumplings, muesli bars and sausages.
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Scale NZ
Jun 27, 20241 min read
Climate change protectionism: will climate-related disclosures become a new trade weapon of choice?
Climate impact disclosures will be used by destination markets to limit imports, in the face of FTA progress.
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Scale NZ
Jun 27, 20241 min read
Will Sanitarium's reduced product range make us healthy again?
Sanitarium are cancelling some of their most sugary products.
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Scale NZ
Jun 27, 20241 min read
China will always be there, but...
Is this sunset for NZ's bulk commodity food exporters?
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Scale NZ
Jun 27, 20241 min read
Food waste tax - a billion dollar opportunity
Taxing food waste would be win-win-win.
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