Your partner for world class pastry products made to the highest quality standards
With an international reputation for supplying frozen premium pastry, croissants, sauces and, cookie doughs, Quality Foods Southland is the supplier of choice to large scale finished goods manufacturers, Food Service and Supermarkets.
The finest ingredients, partnered with our expertise and state-of-the art manufacturing capability make Quality Foods Southland first choice with New Zealand and international customers.
The highest food quality standards are demanded by our discerning customers, and we relish delivering only the best.
Available from our Patisserie L’Amour range, or talk to us about your bespoke specifications.
Our strategy is to be the partner of choice
Food professionals, ensure members of our industry understand our capabilities; volume and innovation to create great products for input to your recipes
Customers, provide innovative products along with a sophisticated supply chain that supports our customers every need. Ensuring our customers are our number one priority is key.
Consumers, creating easy to use products that deliver for the ‘at home chef’ and the professional chef, alike.
Innovators who can see our capabilities for specialist and bespoke offerings we can craft together.
Largest pastry manufacturer in New Zealand
Quality Foods Southland are New Zealand’s premier pastry manufacturer, and preferred supplier to Foodservice, hospitality and manufacturers.
Our international reputation is built on our over 100 years of delivering Pastry, croissants, danish and sauces to our highly valued New Zealand partners
Our Patisserie L’Amour range sets the standard across all channels, including a new premium range of pastry products for supermarkets and retail.
International partnerships in Australasia and South East Asia
We are priviledged to do business with the best Australasian & Asian food service distributors and manufacturers.
We have met Japan’s exacting standards for high end butter pastry for more than 50 years and look forward to many more.
Our state of the art manufacturing facility, combined with the highest food quality and safety systems ensure we deliver premium frozen pastry, croissants, sauces and cookie doughs, to order and on time.
We value long term partners who are as passionate about our products as we are.
Talk to us today about butter or margarine pastry in the formats you need to meet your demanding customers.
Blocks, rolls and sheeted pastry of varying size are available for sale, or make to order (minimum order quantity applies)
Croissant, danish or frozen cookie doughs too.
I look forward to getting to know you and your business.
Cameron Scott - CEO
Japan
Australia
Hong Kong / China
South East Asia
Management team
Cameron Scott
Chief Executive
Cameron.Scott@qfs.co.nz
Tony Gray
Chief Financial Officer
Tony.Gray@qfs.co.nz
Gina Gray
Head of Technical
Gina.Gray@qfs.co.nz
Simon Jackson
Planning and Supply chain
Simon.Jackson@qfs.co.nz
Craig Campbell
Head of Manufacturing
Craig.Campbell@qfs.co.nz
Jordon Scott
Procurement
Jordon.Scott@qfs.co.nz
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QFS New Zealand has a long history built on the principles of quality and consistency. Our rigorous internal quality assurance programme ensures the products we sell to you are of the highest standard. This is ever evolving to meet the demands of New Zealand and International markets as a premium food manufacturing facility.
Our Dairy RMP enables us to manufacture and export dairy based products to global markets with the official assurance of the Ministry of Primary Industries (MPI).
Quality Assurance you can Trust.
RMP: Dairy Risk Management Program ULI 1403
HACCP: Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point
FSSC 22000: Food Safety System Certification
CFCP: Custom Food Control Plan
Our heritage
is in butter & flour
From our beginnings as Southland’s Millar family bakery early last century, QFS has become a world class supplier of frozen pastry, croissants & danish, cookies and sauces to local and off-shore markets.
Today we are a manufacturing bakery selling frozen pastry products via a network of distributors locally and overseas.
Our pastries and sauces have been the product of choice in Japan since we began exporting in the ‘80’s. We are proud to call National retailers and Foodservice suppliers across Asia our partners of 30 years, or more.
Today we continue investing in product development, adding a new range of frozen pre-proved, ready to bake croissants & Danish, and mouth watering cookies to our highly sought after pastry and croissants range.
State of the art technology such as our Fritsch pastry line support development of a wide range of products to the highest standard.
But it is our people who are our biggest asset. A passionate team of skilled bakers with 100’s of years of combined experience baking for you, everyday.
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Annie C. Millar started her own bakery and café in Invercargill
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Expanded into puff pastry production due to local demand
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A.C.M. Ltd became A.C. Millars.
Age 84, Annie passed away.
Left her company to her sons. -
Purchased the first large oven.
Purchased a 10 acre site on the outskirts of Invercargill - the site of QFS New Zealand today.
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The Millar family merged with competing family business to form the Millar-Lange Ltd.
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First shipment of frozen pastry to Japan.
Millar-Lange purchased by Goodman-Fielder group. Became part of Quality Bakers NZ Ltd. Expansion of products and plant.
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Focus shifted to manufacturing for export markets.
Certified to ISO 9002 standards in 1994 and HACCP approved in 1999.
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Private group purchased company.
Company renamed Quality Foods Southland.
Today
We are QFS New Zealand, the country’s leading manufacturer of butter based bakery products and sauces and the largest exporter of butter pastry in New Zealand.
Environment matters
We believe developing environmentally sustainable business practices is a vital step toward increasing our competitive advantage, and value proposition.”
More than ever, our customers are making decisions about what products to buy not just based on cost and quality, but also other factors including how eco-friendly they are.
With a strong export base QFS have always understood the value of sourcing the inputs for our business from within New Zealand, where possible. Our frozen pastry, croissants and sauces, are made with New Zealand grown wheat flour, butter and ethically sourced ingredients.
Other Inclusions and ingredients are ethically sourced and traceable to their origins.
Reducing or eliminating plastic where possible has also been a priority. We switched our Foodservice pastry roll ‘plastic interleave’ to a sustainably produced recyclable paper. This switch has eliminated around 400km of single use plastic from the environment in NZ.
We aim to use cartons made from 100% recycled material where possible. Our pastry rolls in New Zealand have recently switched across, with 1,000’s of cartons now utilising ‘recycled cardboard’.
More changes to come as we look for economic options to migrate from plastic to paper based, sustainable options. We are also working closely with our suppliers, asking them to do the same to reduce waste and our combined carbon footprints.
Energy and Carbon footprint:
As an exporter there will always be a carbon footprint associated with shipping our products from New Zealand to customers in South East Asia.
What we can influence; 80% of Energy use in our manufacturing Plant is from electric powered equipment. NZ generates 80% of it’s Power using renewable Energy production, thus providing a very clean processing site. NZ is currently the 3rd best in the world for clean energy generation. Our clean green image is something we can be proud of.