New Zealand’s
Finest Fruit
Consolidated Fruits was established to consolidate our New Zealand fruit businesses, creating a vertically integrated, large-scale operator that delivers greater efficiencies across the growing, packing and distribution of high-quality fruit, better servicing our domestic and export markets.
Consolidated Fruits is one of the largest fruit companies from the most globally competitive exporting nation, New Zealand. Made up of Kiwi Crunch, CAJ, and Prunus Orchards, all established and well-respected brands that excel in growing, packing and exporting premium fruit.
Growing Premium Fruit
Kiwi Crunch™
Kiwi Crunch grows premium apples and pears in one of New Zealand's premiere growing regions - Hawke’s Bay. It's a region world renowned for producing exceptional fresh produce, delivering exceptional quality, crunch, and flavour. We have over 450 hectares of extraordinary orchards and world-class post-harvest facilities.
We market around 1.5 million cartons of apples and pears annually in more than 30 countries. The Kiwi Crunch brand is synonymous with top-quality New Zealand produce. Our strong base of dedicated growers, combined with the region’s natural advantages - pure water, fresh air, and sustainable soils - allows us to produce the freshest, juiciest fruit.
CAJ
CAJ is our pip fruit business based in beautiful Central Otago, New Zealand. With a strong history of growing premium apples, the CAJ brand has an established international reputation and is exported to over 30 countries across the globe. We believe that people are our biggest asset across our group, and we have a wonderful team with decades of experience leading our packhouse and orchard operations in Central Otago.
We use cutting edge technology in our packhouse facility to be efficient and allow our team to work smarter. Our packhouse is designed to pack around 2,500 x 18kg boxes an hour and we produce over 800,000 cartons annually.
Prunus Orchards
We pride ourselves on growing delicious cherries, handpicked at the peak of ripeness. Our orchards are in Otago, New Zealand, a region famous for its picturesque landscapes, fertile soils, fresh mountain air and abundant sunshine - the perfect location to grow super premium cherries.
To ensure consistent and reliable supply of delicious cherries throughout summer, we have selected a range of cherry varieties based on their export suitability and harvest timing, and we’re guaranteeing supply with the installation of rain covers. Our commitment to excellence extends beyond the orchard, with robust supply chain, traceability and food safety protocols. We’ve partnered with a state-of-the-art packing facility equipped with advanced packing technologies to ensure that only the finest cherries get to market.
