Who is Fonterra? A cooperative that produces 95% of New Zealand's milk and moves 30% of the world's trade of milk.

Fonterra Co-operative Group Limited is New Zealand's largest company and one of the world's leading dairy producers. It emerged in 2001 from the merger of New Zealand Dairy Group, Kiwi Co-operative Dairies, and the historic New Zealand Dairy Board, an organization that for decades concentrated the country's dairy exports. Its name, derived from the Latin fons de terra, "spring of the land," symbolizes the union between the New Zealand territory and the industry that gave it economic identity. Since then, Fonterra has become the heart of New Zealand's dairy industry, a cooperative that brings together around 8,000 producers who together contribute nearly 95% of all the milk produced in New Zealand and supply their products to more than 100 international markets. Fonterra's structure combines integration and scale: the partners are both owners and suppliers, and the company centralizes the collection, processing, and export of milk. In the 2024/25 campaign, the cooperative collected ...