Our Story
Our Story
Rachael Speedy’s Aunt tells a funny tale about Rachael, at the age of four standing on a chair, next to the stove preparing a whole roast meal for her family of six, including the gravy!
“I can’t remember when I started cooking but I do remember being so proud of bringing home a bright lime green steam pudding at the age of eight, which I had made at school that day”!
After spending many years in the hospitality industry, managing several successful local and international businesses and a passion for good quality, real food, it was a natural progression for Rachael to follow her passion and create her own food business, consequently NZ Premium Foods was established.
The team set about creating the foodies for food lovers brand; they wanted to capture the philosophy of cooks and chefs alike, using good quality food products, good quality fresh ingredients, without any unnatural additives. A modern, fresh, clean look, that was easy to understand and read. The brand certainly depicts the essence of their offering good quality food range used to create ‘Kiwi Cuisine’ by every great chef and cook alike.
When they were settling on the name, ‘foodies’, they consulted the Oxford dictionary, (noun - plural foodies) informal - a person with a particular interest in food; a gourmet. This totally depicted their philosophy and ‘foodies’ was born.
NZ Premium Foods is New Zealand owned and operated company successfully trading since 2008. Their main markets are, foodservice throughout New Zealand and have established internationally markets too. They are looking to build long term business relationships with local and international companies that share their ethical philosophy.
Rachael and her team are looking forward to bringing many more products to the market especially clean food particularly because customers are becoming savvy, increasingly aware of what is in the food, with international trends backing this up, our customers are discerning and choose food that do not have artificial ingredients. The foodies philosophy ‘future proofs’ our range and that we are well positioned to pick up on international trends for decades to come thus driving the growth of the foodies brand.
foodies for food lovers is the natural choice adding natural flavour to everyday cooking because cooks love it and chefs love it.