Feature | Inside the challenges facing NZ’s specialty cheese sector

Whitestone Cheese managing director Simon Berry outlines some of the challenges the sector is facing at present. They include the cost of living crisis making consumers more wary of spending more on luxuries like artisan cheeses, the high ongoing regulatory costs producers face if they want to expand through export ventures, and the uncertainty the sale of NZ’s largest specialty cheesemaker Kāpiti to French company Lactalis brings to the sector.