Fonterra is a New Zealand Co-operative made up of everyday people who work together to do good things with dairy, good things with the land they work on and good things for the people that their products end up with. The co-op is passionate about doing amazing things with dairy, believing that food and nutrition are essential to sustain the world today and for future generations to thrive which is why they take great care of every drop of milk, from the beginning, through every step of the way. It is with dedication and care that they are able to produce safe and high-quality food, and Fonterra’s dairy know-how and innovation capability means they can do amazing things with milk to enhance people’s lives.
To build a sustainable future, Fonterra is focused on three goals that go hand-in-hand: healthy people, a healthy environment and a healthy business. Healthy people is about working together to care for people and make a positive social impact. Healthy environment is about working together to achieve a healthy environment for farming and society. Healthy business is about working together to deliver a sustainable business.
Fonterra’s Core sets the current standards for the Co-operative that ensures it meets the expectations of its customers, communities and regulators. It’s the company’s Terms of Supply, Farm Dairy Assessment, Farm Dairy Records and our Performance Management System that supports the farmer and protects the Co-op when things don’t go to plan. Their Next Steps is about getting ready for emerging issues that are either opportunities to create new value and/or risks to existing value. It recognizes those farmers who have already made changes and encourages every other member of the Co-op to follow.
Fonterra’s future looks to the longer term; providing guidance on what the future might look like beyond the Next Steps based on what the cooperative knows from its markets, communities and regulatory agencies, often talking about the untapped potential of milk because their scientists are finding new benefits from dairy all the time and they believe they have barely touched the surface. As a result of the goodness of milk, Fonterra believes dairy is well placed to play an important role in helping feed the world’s growing population and by 2030, there will be another 1 billion mouths to feed. Fonterra’s dairy products aims to play a valuable role in addressing deficiencies in diets and improving the health and wellbeing of people around the world.
The company has 30 manufacturing sites in New Zealand and 6 in Australia. It also has manufacturing sites in Brazil, Chile, China, Indonesia and Malaysia which collectively supplies its products to 130 countries around the world.