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Cooks Food Group Lists On The NZAX Market Today

Date 20/10/2008

Cooks Food Group Ltd has listed on the NZAX Market today. 

Five highly successful food brands amalgamated in September this year to become Cooks Food Group. Cotterill & Rouse, Sahara, Olive Grove, Murdochs and Sungold are brands included in the Cooks Food Group range. Sahara is the youngest brand in the group at 15 years old and Murdoch is the oldest at 122 years old. The company also undertakes contract packing for selected customers and supplies product to customers who sell under their own labels or provide food for airlines.

Director of Cooks Food Group, Keith Jackson said, “We are excited about the NZAX Listing today. The future strategy for Cooks is to innovate and extend our product range to achieve both substantial growth in New Zealand and in export markets. We have an innovative and aggressive new product development strategy to support these goals and our listing today signals the beginning of this growth phase."

NZX Markets Development Manager, Geoff Brown said “It is great to see the listing of Cooks Food Group today, brought to the market by Quigg Partners as NZX Sponsor. The NZAX Market is ideal for growth focused companies and it is encouraging to see Cooks Food Group accessing the benefits it has to offer. ”

Shares in Cooks Food Group were quoted on the NZAX Market under the security code CFG from 10am today.