Our Co-operative Richard Allen

For this podcast episode Rich interviews Komal Mistry who leads our Sports and Active Lifestyle business. It's a cool sounding job title and Rich finds out exactly what it means (spoiler alert: exciting market trends and Fonterra products you may not have heard of before). 

After a few interviews from around the globe, this episode brings us back to Aotearoa where Rich chats with Brett Henshaw. Brett is the Managing Director of Fonterra Brands New Zealand, a.k.a. the part of Fonterra who make and sell all of the yum brands that we can buy at our local supermarkets and dairies. 

Rich interviews Kelvin Wickham, AMENA CEO and his first 'big boss' from a few years back. AMENA is a large and diverse region, covering Africa, the Middle East, Europe, North Asia, and the Americas (that's a lot of the world to try and cover in 25 minutes).  Kelvin talks about the EU market and our specialised, advanced ingredients play there.

Rich interviews Angela Du, Fonterra Anchor Food Professionals Marketing Director based in China. Angela astounds us with stats about the size and growth of the Chinese foodservice market and the future opportunity, and Rich gets nostalgic for his time in China working with this team and eating hotpot soup. 

Rich interviews Geoff Meyer, Fonterra Global GM of Channel Foodservice. We have all heard of the tea macchiato craze in China, and Geoff beams in from Singapore to tell us that that is something on the horizon that may sound even more bizarre to our NZ tastebuds than cream cheese on tea!

Rich interviews Tim Smith, Fonterra Sales Director for the USA. With a love of sports linking life in Chicago to NZ, there are sill some differences and Tim talks through daily and dairy life in the US. 



*Recorded late 2019*