Fonterra‘s Ki Tua fund is a future-proofing strategy

Fonterra‘s Ki Tua fund is a future-proofing strategy
Ki Tua's managing director, Komal Mistry-Mehta. (Image: BusinessDesk)
Greg Hurrell
Fonterra’s Research and Development Centre in Palmerston North comes equipped with 100 PhD researchers and a pilot dairy plant. A recent development is its exportable Easy Bake UHT cream to take advantage of the Chinese market, where 260 million cakes are now made with the cream.  (BusinessDesk was more than happy to sample the resulting products of Fonterra's test kitchen.)But two years ago, faced with a future of accelerating change in biotechnology, the dairy co-op established Ki Tua, a new corporate venture arm. The name mean...

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