People just keep buying more and more SuJon berries. In fact around the world people
are now eating 3 million of our berries every day!”
says SuJon Managing Director, John Gibb.

SuJon’s commitment to the continuous improvement of product, processing, packaging, and distribution,
combined with the growing awareness of berries’ health benefits, is clearly paying dividends.

SuJon Berries Every Day of The Year
SuJon Country Fresh Berries are available year round - that’s SuJon’s commitment to ensure a quality
supply, no matter what the season.

SuJon Berries Field Ripened for Flavour, Colour and Taste
Whereas many berries are picked under ripe to minimise spoilage until time of use, SuJon fruit is allowed
to ripen naturally in the field and is picked at the peak of ripeness for the best sweetness, colour and taste. IQF processing of the berries retains these qualities of the berries.

SuJon Berries for Variety and Versatility
SuJon Berries are captured by individually quick freezing (IQF processing) and packaged in sealed bags
to ensure finest and consistent quality.

All year round SuJon berries are baking in delicious deserts, simmering in sauces, melting over meats
and adding sweetness and goodness to appetisers, cakes, pastries, muffins, other baked goods or further
processed products. Sujon Berries can be used alone and will complement other food items.

Visit the Café Sujon for our mouth watering serving suggestions.

SuJon Berries Economic and Convenient
SuJon free flow, IQF fruits, are sealed in to meet the needs of different users. You’ve always got just the right amount. Click here for tips on getting the best from your SuJon berries.

SuJon Berries The Positively Healthy Choice
Berries are: Low in fat, frequently high in natural anti-oxidants or vitamin C and recognised as a positive contributor to a balanced and healthy diet.

Not only are berries attractive and tasty to eat but their rich natural anthocyanin colours and other components are increasingly the subject of research into their health benefits and role as natural antioxidants.

SuJon combines expertise in the growing of berry fruit with personal commitment to quality and prompt
and efficient service - a winning combination. Sue and John Gibb, owners of Sujon, were pioneering
boysenberry growers in the Nelson area. In the 1980’s they started freezing their boysenberries for
New Zealand Chef’s and consumers. The word spread quickly and customers were asking the Gibb’s
for other berries with the same quality: fruit that thawed well and tasted fantastic meant people could
eat berry fruit year round and chef’s could keep their favourite berry fruit dish’s on the menu throughout the year.

As Kiwi’s born and bred the Gibb’s wanted to stay with New Zealand grown but realised Chef’s needed guaranteed supply if they promoted berries on their menus. The next step was to go global: and the Gibb’s visited berry fruit growers in Canada and Chile. They have had personal relationships with these international suppliers for over 16 years now and the growers are visited regularly. As well as being New Zealand’s leading supplier in berry fruit to Chefs, the Sujon berry fruit brand is available in retail outlets throughout New Zealand. SuJon has its own centralised grading and packing facilities where fruit is carefully checked for quality prior to packing. The SuJon processing plant is located next to an ISO 9002 approved freezing and cold storage facility where product is held for prompt dispatch by temperature controlled transport to distributors and customers in New Zealand and overseas.

SuJon has adopted the Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points system, or HACCP (pronounced hassip) system. SuJon’s accreditation is thought to be the first for a berry fruit processor in Australasia. So good is SuJon’s system that its manuals are being used by the Ministry of Health in its food safety officer training. ”That’s an enormous vote of confidence in the system - and a feather in the cap of our team that developed the system,” says SuJon’s John Gibb ”and it gives both us and our customers the confidence that we have the best possible quality systems in place.

New Zealand Export Markets
Countries enjoying the delicious taste of New Zealand berries:

* Australia and Pacific Islands
* Thailand
* Taiwan
* Japan
* Hong Kong
* China

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