| 13 Taranaki: Van Dyck Fine Foods REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT Van Dyck Fine Foods’ products include light and fluffy pancakes and pikelets, sweet minis, savoury blinis and crepes. At MAURI we are all about ‘BAKING BETTER TOGETHER’. As a leading supplier of bakery ingredient solutions, MAURI offers a comprehensive portfolio of high quality flours, yeasts, grains, bread and cake pre-mixes, and improvers. At MAURI we believe in baking, its wholesome goodness and how it brings people together. www.mauri.co.nz Industrial | Commercial | Residential PROFESSIONAL ELECTRICAL SERVICES ACROSS THE NORTH ISLAND ICEELECTRICALAREPROUDTOCONTINUESUPPORTINGVANDYCKFINEFOODS Your local flexible packaging partner Safe, Strong and Secure The company that specialises in all things packaging. In business and operating in a region near you for the last 70 years Proud supporters and suppliers to Van Dyck Fine Foods EC Attwood Ltd 2 Sir William Avenue East Tamaki, Auckland Phone 0800 ATTWOOD (0800 288966) sales@attwoods.co.nz www.attwoods.co.nz care sector and school lunch programmes, with their healthy product options such as fibre pikelets proving popular. It is easy to see the wider economic value of a business like this. Van Dyck Fine Foods is a large-scale business in Taranaki, employing a team of 60. While the plant is automated, the production roles require technical skills. Food quality standards are high and the company invests strongly in inhouse training. Regular auditing by BRC ensures international best practice is being achieved. “Our business is scaling up and so too are all the services to our business including maintenance and cleaning of equipment and machinery. “Everything we’re doing has tripled in size over the past four years and our capital expenditure on new machinery and equipment has gone up five-fold.” Natalie says the company has had excellent support and encouragement from Venture Taranaki and the Taranaki Chamber of Commerce. “We have really good business networks in this region. Achieving growth is not easy – it’s tough – but it really helps if you have the right support around you. We’re all facing common issues around shipping and talent and thinking about our environmental impact.” At Van Dyck Fine Foods, waste is being reduced through recycling as much as possible and food waste is sent to a local pig farm. In a new chapter for Van Dyck, the company has had a recent change of ownership after being acquired by Oriens Capital. With the new owners firmly committed to New Zealand business growth, it is an exciting time for Van Dyck. “They will continue to invest in us and help us grow even faster.”
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