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We’re on track to grow global

sales to $4.5 billion by 2025,
which equates to around 260
million trays of kiwifruit. Of

that, we expect up to 200
million trays will be New
Zealand-grown fruit while

around 60 million will come
from Zespri Global Supply

be New Zealand-grown fruit while around
60 million will come from Zespri Glob-
al Supply, meaning more investment and
jobs and sharing of information to improve
production in the kiwifruit sector in places
like Italy and France.

What do you expect about the produc-
tion volume and quality of the new
campaign in Europe?
European volumes are forecast to con-
tinue to grow strongly to meet consumer
demand for year-round supply, with fore-
casts indicating volumes will grow from
around 7.8 million trays of Green and
just under 10 million trays of SunGold in
2018/19 to 13 million trays of Green and
24 million trays of SunGold by 2023/24. In
spite of some challenges with things like
Brown Marmorated Stinkbug and Psa,
there is confidence in the sector here and
we expect to see production increasing.
Zespri has a wide, if not a complete,
view of the global kiwi consumption
map. Where do you see opportunities
and for which reason?
We see huge potential to grow our con-

OCTOBER 2019