DKSH, the leading Market Expansion Services provider with a focus on Asia Pacific, and Jordans Dorset Ryvita, a market leader and supplier of breakfast cereals and biscuits, have signed an exclusive agreement for New Zealand.
Media release
Palmerston North, New Zealand, September 18, 2017 – DKSH Business Unit Consumer Goods, a leading Market Expansion Services provider for Fast Moving Consumer Goods, and Jordans Dorset Ryvita have signed an exclusive agreement to provide marketing, sales, distribution and logistics services for its biscuit and cereal products in the grocery channel for New Zealand.
Nat Brown, Country Manager New Zealand, Jordans Dorset Ryvita, said: “After an extensive market review, we chose to partner with DKSH as we believe that they are the best positioned to both expand the current New Zealand Ryvita business and launch our two highly successful and very tasty Jordans and Dorset breakfast cereals brands.”
Paul Harris, General Manager, Sales and Marketing, DKSH New Zealand, commented: “It is a privilege for DKSH to partner with an industry leader such as Jordans Dorset Ryvita. With our strong sales and marketing capabilities, unparalleled national coverage, professionalism and industry knowledge, we are confident to successfully grow the market for the Jordans Dorset Ryvita products.”
Jordans Dorset Ryvita business is a subsidiary company of Associated British Foods (AB Foods), a diversified international food, ingredients and retail group from the United Kingdom. DKSH has been working with AB Foods since the 1990s. DKSH first helped to position the Ovaltine brand to a dominant market position in Myanmar and, from 2011, has been doing the same in Cambodia. DKSH also collaborates with AB Foods in Thailand.
For further information, please contact:
DKSH New Zealand Limited
Michelle McEwen
Branding and Communications Specialist
Phone +64 6 350 1712
michelle.mcewen@dksh.com
About Jordans Dorset Ryvita
The Jordans Dorset Ryvita business is a subsidiary company of Associated British Foods, a diversified international food, ingredients and retail group, with sales in excess of £13b, employing 130,000 people, with operations in 50 countries across Europe, southern Africa, the Americas, Asia and Australia.
They aim to achieve strong, sustainable leadership positions in growing markets and economies by delivering quality products and services that are central to people’s lives.
RYVITA has been a longstanding brand within the group since 1949, and later acquisitions of the JORDANS (2009) and DORSET (2014) cereals brands combined to create Jordans Dorset Ryvita as it currently operates, manufacturing a broad range of biscuits and breakfast cereals enjoyed by households in over 80 countries.
About DKSH
DKSH is the leading Market Expansion Services provider with a focus on Asia Pacific. As the term "Market Expansion Services" suggests, DKSH helps other companies and brands to grow their business in new or existing markets. Publicly listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange since 2012, DKSH is a global company headquartered in Zurich. With 780 business locations in 36 countries – 750 of them in Asia – and 30,320 specialized staff, DKSH generated net sales of CHF 10.5 billion in 2016. DKSH was founded in 1865. With strong Swiss heritage, the company has a long tradition of doing business in and with Asia and is deeply rooted in communities and businesses across Asia Pacific.
DKSH Business Unit Consumer Goods is Asia Pacific’s leading Market Expansion Services provider with a focus on fast moving consumer goods, food services, luxury goods, fashion and lifestyle products as well as hair and skin cosmetics. The Business Unit’s comprehensive Market Expansion Services extend from product feasibility studies and registration to importation, customs clearance, marketing and merchandising, sales, warehousing, capillary physical distribution, invoicing, cash collection and after-sales services. With 720 business locations in 20 countries and around 16,370 specialized staff, Business Unit Consumer Goods serves 310,000 retail outlets on a daily basis and generated net sales of CHF 3.8 billion in 2016.