For over 100 years, Airborne Honey Limited has produced and packed top quality 100% pure New Zealand honey, in liquid and creamed form, and produced in pollution-free New Zealand.
Airborne Honey, by continuing the tradition of producing only the finest, purest Monofloral and comb honey products has grown to become one of the largest Producer-packer and Exporter in New Zealand. Airborne publishes on the retail pack jars the Pollen Count from one single nectar source, the HMF
number and the Batch Number.
History :
Airborne Honey was founded by Mr. William Bray and his partner Mr. Alfred Barrett in the South Island of New Zealand and commenced commercial operations in 1910.
In 1926 two brands of honey were registered, “Meadow” and “Airborne”. Meadow was a light amber and Airborne a white clover honey. The Airborne brand is now the oldest surviving brand of honey in New Zealand.
Around this time it was decided to move the operation to the present site at Leeston on the Canterbury Plains where a processing and packing plant was built in the late 1920’s.
The company
has always been a family concern with William Bray’s son, Jasper, taking over
to be followed in turn by grandson Peter Bray who is currently the company’s
managing director.
From this early beginning, the company grew in
size to where it is now one of the largest honey processing and exporting
companies in New Zealand with exports comprising around 25% of business. The
early philosophy of high quality and good presentation continues today. The in-house
laboratory is unequalled in New Zealand from which product analysis integrated
with in-house software that captures all facets of the product as it flows
through the Airborne process.
Airborne products routinely have the lowest
level of heat damage in the New Zealand market and the ability to trace product
from a batch number back to each individual apiary (site of hives) and
print a map of New Zealand showing these, are just some indicators of the
level of technical expertise applied in the business. Today Airborne is the
technical leader in the New Zealand honey industry
Company Location :
Airborne Honey Ltd is located
at Leeston,
approx. 45 km South West
of Christchurch.
