The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has sounded the death knell over New Zealand’s second attempt to secure a mānuka certification trademark in New Zealand’s largest honey market.

Blanche Murray is the founder and director of Kai Ora Honey, a beekeeping and honey exporting business based in Awanui in the far North, and a director to Te Pitau Ltd, the operating arm of the Mānuka Charitable Trust. With a free trade agreement (FTA) with India signed and soon to be in force, she fields questions on a currently tiny, but potentially huge, market for mānuka honey.

As the group tasked with protecting mānuka honey from offshore exploitation continues its work, a Mānuka Charitable Trust Symposium to reaffirm their position was held on September 26.

A seemingly sidelined player in the shakeup of industry representation in recent months, the Mānuka Charitable Trust (MCT) held a...

Mānuka Charitable Trust has been called the “national guardian” of mānuka. So, what role have they been playing in industry restructuring...

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

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...