Monday, 21 October 2024 14:18

Global retailers taste NZ mānuka honey offerings

Written by  Staff Reporters
A new digital series, backed by industry stakeholders, highlighting what makes the honey so special has been launched. A new digital series, backed by industry stakeholders, highlighting what makes the honey so special has been launched.

Thousands of honey retailers and professionals worldwide are getting a taste of the remarkable properties of New Zealand mānuka honey.

A new digital series, backed by industry stakeholders, highlighting what makes the honey so special has been launched.

Manuka Mastery is designed to help wholesalers, retailers, and nutritional health professionals better understand the honey to enable them to support the category as it gains more shelf space and grows its share in the $750 billion global natural health food category.

Made up of eight videos, the digital training series takes in the 1000-year history of the manuka tree in Aotearoa, the discovery of manuka honey health attributes, and the modern scientific discoveries which have substantiated its bioactive properties.

 A key focus of Manuka Mastery is to highlight manuka honey’s antibacterial, anti-inflammatory, antioxidant and immune-boosting properties which underpin the numerous health benefits being investigated by researchers.

Unique Manuka Factor Honey Association (UMFHA) is an independent New Zealand-based society that has set and certified the standards for bioactive mānuka honey for over 25 years. Representing more than 80% of New Zealand’s mānuka honey exporters, UMFHA ensures the authenticity, quality, and bioactive content of every batch.

UMFHA chief executive Tony Wright emphasised the importance of providing training material for customers worldwide to equip their teams with tools to help consumers understand the high value, high quality, health package they are purchasing when buying UMF certified mānuka honey from New Zealand.


Read More


“The Manuka Mastery course helps tell New Zealand’s manuka honey story,” says Wright.

“The video and Q&A modules are brief, informative and easy to understand, and have been developed to support retailers cut through any customer confusion in the honey aisle.”

Users move through each module by watching a short video and answering questions afterwards. After successfully completing each module and the short final test, participants become certified New Zealand Manuka Honey Specialists. The new digital series launches in the United States first and will be available to all international markets shortly thereafter.

Manuka Mastery was a cross-industry collaboration between UMF Honey Association, UMFHA licensed export partners, Manuka Charitable Trust, independent laboratories, beekeepers, the University of Waikato and industry retail partners.

More like this

Winners and losers

The main beneficiaries of the EU FTA will be kiwifruit, onions, honey, wine and seafood.

Taxpayers stung

In what your old mate reckons is par for the course for the current Government, it has blown more taxpayer money on a wasted cause.

Featured

Fencing excellence celebrated

The Fencing Contractors Association of New Zealand (FCANZ) celebrated the best of the best at the 2025 Fencing Industry Awards, providing the opportunity to honour both rising talent and industry stalwarts.

B+LNZ launches AI assistant for farmers

Beef + Lamb New Zealand has launched an AI-powered digital assistant to help farmers using the B+LNZ Knowledge Hub to create tailored answers and resources for their farming businesses.

National

Machinery & Products

Tech might take time

Agritech Unleashed – a one-day event held recently at Mystery Creek, near Hamilton – focused on technology as an ‘enabler’…

John Deere acquires GUSS Automation

John Deere has announced the full acquisition of GUSS Automation, LLC, a globally recognised leader in supervised high-value crop autonomy,…

Fencing excellence celebrated

The Fencing Contractors Association of New Zealand (FCANZ) celebrated the best of the best at the 2025 Fencing Industry Awards,…

» Latest Print Issues Online

The Hound

A step too far

OPINION: For years, the ironically named Dr Mike Joy has used his position at Victoria University to wage an activist-style…

Save us from SAFE

OPINION: A mate of yours truly has had an absolute gutsful of the activist group SAFE.

» Connect with Rural News

» eNewsletter

Subscribe to our weekly newsletter