So I found out my fav biscuits (Shrewsburys in case you were wondering!) are made here. They'd been sitting there in the 'aisle of value' for ages tempting me but I kept walking past, sure that they were made in Australia. One day though I decided it was worth a look, thankfully. The 'made in...' bit was really hard to find though, I was looking for ages. An older lady went to grab a packet and noticed me trying to read the back...she tried to teach me how to read the nutritional infomation! Cadbury creme eggs though...omg...made in the UK!!! I'm so dissapointed right now! What do we have a Cadbury factory for if they don't make creme eggs...if only Whittakers could see!
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My Name is Sarah from the Buy NZ Made Campaign. There are over 1300 companies in NZ with the New Zealand Made Kiwi-in-a-triangle logo. We also have a service on our website where you can search for companies or products to find out if they are NZ Made. If they are in our database they will come up in your search. Might make it a little easier before shopping at the supermarket to see what is made here. Griffins are one of our members yay! Sarah if you need to contact me sgoffe@buynz.org.nz
Well down Sarah and good luck with the experiment. If you need some NZ Made vegetable oil let me know as we are the only company making it. Keep up the good work!
Kind regards
Robin Brooks
www.nzvo.co.nz
Winter is coming, merino garments will help you keep warm. You may have to ignore some of the big brands as they are made in China. I got some "Merinos Outdoors" off TradeMe, very reasonably priced, made in Christchurch.
Hey Sarah ... read about your project in the DomPost ... nice ... if you want to try out a classic (1st published in 1984, now in its 5th edition) NZ board game ... go to www.breakscore.com or email matt@breakscore.com and I'll get one away to you.
Can guarantee that not only is BreakScore created in NZ, it's printed and assembled here too!!
Hey Sarah
I went grocery shopping today and I thought about some of the things when buying, but I was a bit distracted and just threw things in the trolley without looking. I stopped to check the packaging on all the soy milks and couldn't find any that is made here.
Hi Sarah,
check out http://www.cool.org.nz/ - cos what you are doing is highlighting the fact New Zealand does not have mandatory country of origin labelling on food. Like most other countries do.
Kiwis assume pretty much all the food in the supermarket is local. It's not - and less so all the time. Read labels! Look for the words 'Product of New Zealand'. That's a tougher standard than 'Made in New Zealand'.
CoOLNZ is also on Facebook - the group is 'I Want A CoOL New Zealand' and it's also under Causes as 'Support Country of Origin Labelling on Food in New Zealand'.
All the 7000 fruit and vegetable growers of NZ support your efforts Sarah!
Leigh Catley
Horticulture New Zealand
this is such an inspiring experiment. I'm keen to see how you get on with clothing cos I've been caught out buying what i think is made here but has actually just been printed on here or something.
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Thanks Leigh. I didn't realise 'product of' and 'made in' were different...'product of' is alot harder to find!
Suz...that really suks about the soy milk? Have you tried rice milk? Not sure if any of that is made here either though.
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