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Zespri kiwifruit

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Zespri kiwifruit

After failing to trademark the name ‘kiwifuit’, New Zealand fruit growers developed the trademark Zespri to ensure their product had a unique place on the world market. Here Glen Arrowsmith, sustainability manager for Zespri, sits in a Mt Maunganui cool store surrounded by trays of kiwifruit headed offshore.

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Mark Derby, Inventions, patents and trademarks – Trademarks, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/25409/zespri-kiwifruit (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Mark Derby, published 11 May 2010, updated 1 February 2015.