Supplier Stories

Meet Julia Warren — founder of Make It Raw! Focused on creating a range of tasty and wholesome nutritious snacking options that are both raw and gluten-free. We love including their delicious range of crackers as part of our NZ gifts and gift boxes. This is Make It Raw’s story: Julia started Make It Raw in […]

Meet the team! Nikki Van de Laar — founder and Masterchef at Superseed Crackers! The home of handmade and gently baked crackers containing only organic seeds, nuts, herbs, olive oil and seasoning.

Maud and Harry’s Walnut Company was born in 2011 from a dream to showcase the amazing humble NZ walnut. Originally established to use the surplus walnuts from the large trees on their driveway, the ‘home of walnut brittle’ has become a ‘must stop’ at the Sunday Hawkes Bay Farmers’ Market.

Meet the team! Roland and Lucienne van der Wal are the owner-operators of Immigrant’s Vineyard – Home of Ruru Wines. Overlooking the Clutha River and Old Man Range, it is one of the most southern vineyards in the world. After arriving in New Zealand from the Netherlands in 1986 with just a backpack each, Roland […]

The amazing Sone of Sone’s Sauces is an instantly recognisable face to many on the Kāpiti Coast. Known for her amazing positive energy and her incredible sauces, Sone lovingly handcrafts each batch of her all-natural sauce range.

Meet the team! With a product that has no artificial preservatives, colours, flavours, or thickeners, and no added sugar — it should be no surprise that Tex-As Salsas has secured silver and bronze at this years Outstanding Food Producer Awards (Salsa Roja – Bronze and Verde Drizz – Silver). The name Tex-As reflects a blend […]

Meet the team! Juno Gin is the handiwork of husband-and-wife duo Jo and Dave James. They met at primary school in New Plymouth and four years ago, this unassuming couple, left their careers and combined their science backgrounds and passion for gin to start dreaming and experimenting to craft their ideal gin. “I love gin,” […]

Meet the makers! The journey to award-winning bean-to-bar chocolate that started in a converted garage in Snells Beach. 🤩 Nico & Emily Bonnaud, the team behind the beautiful award-winning Auckland craft chocolate business Honest Chocolat, started in 2016 as a side project to their full-time occupations — Nico a pastry chef, and Emily an Interior […]

🥖 Meet the team! Max Fuhrer — Arobake founder & Master Baker (Aka chief, cook and bottle washer!) — started his baking journey in 1989 in a small bakery in Aro Valley in Wellington. Fast forward 30+ years later – a bigger bakery and shop across the road from the original, a team of 30, […]

Central Otago is known for its long, dry summers, stunning autumn colours, crisp winters and rush of new life in spring, not to mention jaw-dropping scenery wherever you turn, but there’s also a special kind of alchemy going on. On the quiet shores of the unbelievably blue Lake Dunstan, the olive trees of Dunford Grove […]