Fonterra updates earnings
Fonterra says its earnings for the 2025 financial year are anticipated to be in the upper half of its previously forecast earnings range of 40-60 cents per share.
Fonterra Ingredients business has launched a new global e-commerce website for customers.
The myNZMP platform is a business-to-business platform where customers can find product information, gain insights that can help guide their purchasing decisions and manage and track their orders.
It also offers NZMP customers a personalised online buying experience through myNZMP Store.
Fonterra general manager digital transformation Francis Reid says the aim is to make Fonterra "the easiest company in the world to do business with".
Reid says since myNZMP Store's pilot launch, in September 2020, with a small group of customers, it has evolved month-on-month. Customer and employee feedback has helped to shape the platform. To date over $170 million worth of product has been sold via myNZMP Store.
"myNZMP is poised for significant growth," he told Dairy News.
"It will become a significat enabler of our Ingredients business over the next decade, helping to deepen relationships with customers, which is key to achieving our long-term ambitions."
Reid says Fonterra's Global Dairy Trade generates contracts and myNZMP is the next step to buy products online.
"myNZMP Store offers a complementary service to GDT events, giving customers the chance to buy dairy ingredients outsie of set auction times," he explains.
"The goal is to give NZMP customers a seamless online to offline experience - being able to buy quickly online when they want to, and access data and insights, but also the ability to tap into advanced ingredients support from NZMP experienced sales network when they need it."
Reid believes no business can ignore the trend towards digital and e-commerce, and Fonterra is no exception.
"Our customers want more convenience, more flexibility and more information to empower their businesses - and our Ingredients business, NZMP, has delivered on that with myNZMP."
Reid says Fonterra's long-term strategy aims to focus on higher-value ingredients targeting physical and mental wellness and immunity, with provenance and sustainability credentials offering a point of difference.
He adds that myNZMP also frees up his sales teams to work with customers on unlocking the most value possible from advanced products.
Reid says the focus for now is on rolling out myNZMP Store to as many customers as possible, with the support of NZMP sales teams around the globe.
Farmlands says that improved half-year results show that the co-op’s tight focus on supporting New Zealand’s farmers and growers is working.
Horticulture New Zealand (HortNZ) says that discovery of a male Oriental fruit fly on Auckland’s North Shore is a cause for concern for growers.
Fonterra says its earnings for the 2025 financial year are anticipated to be in the upper half of its previously forecast earnings range of 40-60 cents per share.
Beef + Lamb New Zealand (B+LNZ) is having another crack at increasing the fees of its chair and board members.
Livestock management tech company Nedap has launched Nedap New Zealand.
An innovative dairy effluent management system is being designed to help farmers improve on-farm effluent practices and reduce environmental impact.
OPINION: Australian dairy is bracing for the retirement of an iconic dairy brand.
OPINION: Another sign that the plant-based dairy fallacy is unravelling and that nothing beats dairy-based products.