Story: Food and beverage manufacturing
Page 9. External links and sources
More links and websites
Tea and coffee break
Information about the tea and coffee drinking habits of New Zealanders.
Wattie’s
The food-processing company founded by James Wattie in 1934.
More suggestions and sources
- Bailey, Ray and Mary Earle. Home cooking to takeaways: changes in food consumption in New Zealand during 1880–1990. Palmerston North: Department. of Food Technology, Massey University, 1993.
- Barringer, E. E. Sweet success: the story of Cadbury & Hudson in New Zealand. Dunedin: Cadbury Confectionery in association with Longacre Press, 2000.
- Butterworth, Susan. Quality Bakers New Zealand: the first 25 years. Auckland: Quality Bakers New Zealand, 1997.
- Conly, Geoff. Wattie’s: the first fifty years. Hastings: J. Wattie Canneries, 1984.
- Goldsmith, Susette. Tea: a potted history of tea in New Zealand. Auckland: Reed, 2006.
- Robson, Peter E. W. The aerated water and soft drink industry in New Zealand, 1845–1986. Auckland: New Zealand Soft Drink Manufacturers Association, 1995.
How to cite this page
Sarah Wilcox, Food and beverage manufacturing, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/story/92823/sources (accessed 4 June 2026).
Story by Sarah Wilcox, published 3 March 2010.