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Mānuka Honey: What Went Wrong? And a Road to Recovery

Phil Caskey

Dec 210 min read

Mānuka Honey: What Went Wrong? And a Road to Recovery

Mānuka honey pioneer Phil Caskey shares his vision for a better UMF™ brand and a better mānuka honey industry...

Patrick Dawkins

Dec 23 min read

A Hot Topic – UMF Honey Standards

A recent survey of UMF™ branded mānuka honey in China and Singapore by UMFHA returned what has been described as “an alarming number of...

Learn From Chocolate, So Honey Doesn't Have to Take the Heat

Bruce Roscoe

Dec 25 min read

Learn From Chocolate, So Honey Doesn't Have to Take the Heat

Based on the experience of long hot Tokyo days and nights, Bruce Roscoe outlines the measures traders and distributors can take to protect..

Campbell Naish

Nov 12 min read

UMFHA Celebrates NZ Mānuka Honey Day

UMFHA explain their promotional concept "New Zealand Mānuka Honey Day", celebrated November 4...

Patrick Dawkins

Oct 311 min read

A Honey Industry in the Dark

Looming over a seriously depressed mānuka honey market is what has variously been described as a honey “oversupply’, “stockpile, “surplus”.

The Honey in the Sheds, and the Sword of Damocles

Bruce Roscoe

Oct 310 min read

The Honey in the Sheds, and the Sword of Damocles

While the New Zealand Honey industry bandies about vast ranges for potential honey inventory volumes, Bruce Roscoe explores how...

Comvita’s Freeze Out Hits Honey Suppliers Hard

Patrick Dawkins

Oct 35 min read

Comvita’s Freeze Out Hits Honey Suppliers Hard

Where Comvita goes, many beekeepers go, and when they cancelled supply contracts with beekeepers in 2021-22 it sent some out of business...

UMFHA Terminate “Detracting” Licence Holders

Patrick Dawkins

Sep 23 min read

UMFHA Terminate “Detracting” Licence Holders

As the mānuka honey price pinch tightens, 26 now former the UMFHA licence holders have had their ability to use the UMF brand revoked...

Bruce Roscoe

Sep 210 min read

Straining the Alphabet Soup

A short history of the various rating systems for mānuka honey: TA / NPA / UMF / MGO / MG / MGS / AAH / Pollen Percentage / KFactor / MQS.

The Landmine Landscape of Honey Company Mergers and Acquisitions

Bruce Roscoe

Aug 213 min read

The Landmine Landscape of Honey Company Mergers and Acquisitions

Writer, former securities analyst, and honey trader Bruce Roscoe reviews the 'landmine landscape' of an industry where investors fear to...

Patrick Dawkins

Aug 27 min read

UMF Mānuka Honey: Made in Japan

A recent misstep from a UMFHA member which allowed Japanese filling of honey bags brings the Association’s rules under scrutiny...

Patrick Dawkins

Sep 1, 202311 min read

The Pragmatic Beekeeper

This spring is the first for 26 years that Tauranga beekeeper Dennis Crowley will not be in the business of bees. We take a look back...

Anger and Frustration in Northland at Mānuka Honey Reassessment

Patrick Dawkins

Jul 3, 20238 min read

Anger and Frustration in Northland at Mānuka Honey Reassessment

Northland beekeepers are angry and frustrated over what they see as a drawn-out and “secretive” process which lacked Māori involvement...

Ian Fletcher

Jul 3, 20235 min read

The Blundered Mānuka Honey Definition

MPI's reassessment of the manuka honey definition is a failure on multiple fronts, writes experienced public servant Ian Fletcher...

UMF Members Call for Review of Trademark Funding

Patrick Dawkins

Jul 3, 20232 min read

UMF Members Call for Review of Trademark Funding

Unique Manuka Factor Honey Association members have called on the Board and management of the association to have greater transparency and..

Setback on Home Soil – ‘Manuka Honey’ Trademark Denied in NZ

Patrick Dawkins

May 31, 20237 min read

Setback on Home Soil – ‘Manuka Honey’ Trademark Denied in NZ

It was seen as the opportunity to get New Zealand’s Manuka Honey trademark bid back on course, but a ruling by the Intellectual Property...

The IPONZ Mānuka Decision and Next Steps

Ian Fletcher

May 31, 20235 min read

The IPONZ Mānuka Decision and Next Steps

It might be time to pick up the phone to Australia and talk Manuka Honey opines Ian Fletcher, a former advisor to the NZ trademark efforts.

Manuka Honey Team Regroups for UK Appeal

Patrick Dawkins

Mar 2, 20223 min read

Manuka Honey Team Regroups for UK Appeal

Those behind New Zealand's bid to gain exclusive use of the term "manuka honey" are set to appeal a recent UK ruling that set them back...

Patrick Dawkins

Jan 2, 20227 min read

Manuka Trust’s Plan of Attack

A ruling from the UK against NZ interests to trademark “manuka honey” was analogous to the loss of a battle, but not the war say those...

Ian Fletcher

Jan 2, 20222 min read

The UK IPO Manuka Decision

What does the UK "manuka honey" ruling really mean? Expert in the field of international trade Ian Fletcher provides some answers...