8 | Hamilton: BODCO Dairy Firm continues its ‘exciting journey’ T T Karen Phelps BODCO Dairy is thriving from its Hamilton base. REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT CrestClean’s standardised cleaning systems create hygienic outcomes at every clean. Our Environmental Choice licence helps to improve the sustainability of our cleaning services and it allows our customers to verify sustainable procurement. Contact CrestClean for a review of your cleaning, let us put a shine on your premises. For more information call 0800 273 780 or visit crestclean.co.nz CrestClean is proud to support BODCO Dairy 021 430 994 info@larefrigeration.co.nz 18 Lincoln Street, Frankton, Hamilton 3204 www.larefrigeration.co.nz ∙ Commercial Refrigeration & HVAC ∙ Water Chiller Specialist ∙ Food Industry ∙ Heat Pumps ∙ Large Scale Air Conditioning ∙ Refrigeration Plant Retrofits Installation, commissioning, servicing & maintenance on all types of equipment. Providing a high quality and reliable service for commercial and residential customers, LA Refrigeration offers innovative and customised heating and cooling solutions. Operating across the Waikato and Bay of Plenty, we have built a reputation on our honesty and expertise – backed by over 18 years of experience and IQP registration. , . , . Your trusted lawn & garden experts • 30 years experience 0800 800 286 www.crewcut.co.nz Hamilton’s BODCO Dairy has developed a strategic plan that will take the company into the future, allowing it to diversify and explore new markets. “We’ve virtually turned everything on its head. It’s been an exciting journey,” says company CEO Nic Wetere. Located in the dairy centre of Waikato, BODCO Dairy supplies global markets with high quality nutritional and lifestyle milk powder-based products. The company was founded in 2014 by Brian Wagstaff, Ole Andersen and Richard Young and later joined by one of China’s largest State Owned Enterprise, The China Animal Husbandry Group. Its mainstay of business has been contract manufacturing infant formula for the Chinese market, and this will remain its core focus, says Nic. But exploring other opportunities has led BODCO Dairy to invest in its research and development team to come up with its own branded nutritional products. Company sales and marketing manager Richard Stapel says that product currently in development include a pregnancy range for mums and mums-to-be for the US market. It will mark the first range for the company where it has completed the full product development, from research to commercialisation, and its entry to the USA market. BODCO Dairy is also in the early stages of working on products for the halal market with a focus on Malaysia and the Middle East. This involves certifying its plant for halal – not an onerous task as it has held this certification in the past – and registering halal products for the countries it is targeting. Richard says the halal products will likely launch in the first quarter of 2023. “These markets appreciate New Zealand’s strong focus on animal welfare from pasture to plate,” he says. Pet milk replacement products are another area of interest. “There is a global trend towards premium-isation and humanisation, feeding pets premium products that in the past would have been fed only to humans,” explains Richard. “The pet market is definitely growing, especially in countries where people are having less or no children. Pets are being treated like children with high level high value food,” he says. BODCO Dairy is looking at a range of innovative products including nutritional powders that can be added to food, which might assist with shiny coats, for example. BODCO’s diversi cation strategy is also seeing more formulas produced from sheep and goat milk powders. Both Nic and Richard say there has been huge growth in sheep milk products. “It’s an on-trend product that offers some-
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