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• Over the five year period (2000-05), excluding
agriculture, the employee count in food and beverage
has grown by 23% compared to 17% for the whole of
New Zealand over the same period.
• Over the last ten years (1995-2005), total food and
beverage employment by full-time equivalents (FTEs)
increased by 8% (including all agriculture) compared to
total New Zealand FTEs which increased by 22% (SNZ
and BERL calculations);
• The food and beverage value chains with the
highest employee count in 2005 were food service,
manufacturing and retailing, with lower number of
employees in marine fishing, horticulture and food
wholesaling.
• Between 1995 and 2005, the share of FTEs in
agricultural production activities declined from 40%
to 33% of total food and beverage employment. The
food service share increased from 16% in 1995 to over
20% in 2005 while the manufacturing share remained
relatively unchanged at about 20% and the retailing
activity share at about 15% over the 1995 to 2005
period. The wholesaling share rose very slightly from
6% to 8%.
An example of how the framework can be applied in the
form of the value chain is outlined below:
The Food Industry Model developed in the Coriolis report
shows that the food industry begins with natural resources
and ends with sales to domestic consumers or to export
markets.
The applicability of employment data depends on how
well the data can be applied to the value chains of the
various sub-sectors. As a test BERL have incorporated
employee count data into the Coriolis Food Industry
Model (see below).
CORIOLIS FOOD INDUSTRY MODEL WITH EMPLOYEE COUNT
RESOURCES PRODUCTION MANUFACTURING & WHOLESALE
Meat processing 30,440
Livestock 30,580
Pasture 50,890
Meat wholesaling 1,920
Milk 20,310
Dairy processing 9,650
Dairy wholesaling 1,250
RETAIL &
FOOD SERVICE
Farm
equipment,
supplies,
genetics,
etc
Arable land and
horticulture 26,340
Grains 490
Fruit & vege 25,850
Grain-based manufacturing 8,870
Grain-based wholesaling 350
Fruit & vegetable processing 5,600
Fruit & vegetable wholesaling 3,410
Beverage manufacturing 6,010
158,270
Beverage wholesaling 2,740
Seafood 2,190
Fish & other
seafood 2,190
Seafood processing 5,980
Seafood wholesaling 560
Primary
Food imports
Other food processing 7,410
Other food wholesaling 15,110
Support
functions
Education, Recruiting & Human Resources; Logistics and Distribution; Market Research, Advertising and Design,
Research and Development, Information Systems; Packaging; Finance, Banking and Insurance.
Source: Model adapted from Coriolis, Employment Data from Statistics New Zealand
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