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Natural health company Comvita is the first organisation to renew its City Partner agreement.

Comvita, manufacturer of Manuka honey and natural health products, has been a City Partner since 2004 and has just signed a second five-year agreement with the city.

The agreement will see the Paengaroa-based company continue to support tree planting in Kopurererua Valley as part of a massive revegetation project through the valley. Comvita will also continue to lead the Birds, Bees, Kids and Trees (BBKT) programme which educates school children on the life cycle of plants and animals.

“The City Partner programme gives Comvita the opportunity to make a lasting positive benefit to the community and to share our passion for the environment and all things natural with the leaders of the future,” said Chief Executive Brett Hewlett.

The Comvita BBKT kiosk at Kopurererua Valley can be accessed from Faulkner St.


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Comvita Olive Leaf Complex now available in an Oral Spray
November 2008

Comvita Olive Leaf Complex now available in an Oral Spray

Great news for fans of Comvita’s Olive Leaf Complex: it’s now available in a convenient and easy-to-use oral spray.

Comvita’s Olive Leaf Complex is an all-natural daily health tonic which blends the benefits of the world’s oldest cultivated tree with modern extraction processes that use only fresh, natural olive leaves.

The new Oral Spray combines Comvita Olive Leaf Complex with sage leaf extract. Sage leaf is traditionally used for its soothing properties to maintain oral health and hygiene.

Naturally flavoured with peppermint and lemon, the Olive Leaf Oral Spray gives the mouth a cool, soothing and refreshing feeling and also helps to aid dry throats.

There are 30 times more health-giving antioxidants in Comvita’s fresh Olive Leaf Complex than in extra virgin olive oils. Plus, it packs more antioxidant punch than Vitamin C - research shows Comvita Olive Leaf Complex is 400 percent more powerful than even that trusty vitamin.

And fresh is definitely best. Scientific studies show that these compounds are more potent and easily bioavailable in olive leaf extracts made from fresh leaves than in reconstituted products.1-4

For those who may be allergic or unable to take either bee or propolis products, the portable Olive Leaf Oral Spray provides another choice.
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Comvita wins prestigious employer award

MEDIA RELEASE
October 31, 2008

Comvita wins prestigious employer award

Natural healthcare company Comvita has been recognised for combining the very essence of its business with good employee relations.

Comvita was last night named the Workplace and Life Award winner in the annual Equal Employment Opportunities (EEO) Trust Work & Life Awards 2008 for its polices promoting employee health and wellness alongside flexible working.

“Healthier, happier people are bound to be more committed and productive.  We have some extremely dedicated and talented people who appreciate the benefits of polices we have in place and are really focussed because of it,” says Comvita CEO Brett Hewlett.

Comvita is a “mini multi-national”, with 80 per cent of its sales and more than half of its 250 staff in Australia, Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong and the United Kingdom.  Its head office is located in Paengaroa, near Te Puke, where the business began 34 years ago.  Comvita is now the world’s largest manufacturer and marketer of manuka honey.

The EEO Trust Work & Life Awards judges for 2008 said Comvita stood out for the breadth and depth of its initiatives to boost staff health and wellness.  In response to staff concerns around managing stress and workloads as the company expanded, Comvita formed an employee-driven wellness committee.  It developed a work-life programme which formalised flexible working arrangements so people could adjust their hours to better handle work and personal commitments. 

A strong community focus was also inherent in the programme, a reflection of Comvita’s support of grass-roots projects around the world. 

“This demonstrates a proactive, long-term approach to caring for its employees as it does its consumers,” says Philippa Reed, EEO Trust CEO and awards judge.  “Comvita is inspirational, and its policies and processes widely replicable.”

Other winners of the EEO Trust Work & Life Awards 2008 were:

Supreme Winner Award and winner of Tomorrow’s Workforce Award:
Air New Zealand
 
Workplace Diversity Award:
ANZ National Bank

Work & Life/Diversity in Action Award:
New Zealand Post Group

Joint winners of the Walk the Talk Award :
Lucy McKimm (Accident Compensation Corporation, Hamilton) and Mike Foster (Express Couriers, Christchurch).  

The EEO Trust Awards have been running for 11 years and celebrate organisations which actively help their employees achieve balance between their work commitments and their diverse and varied lives – an approach which EEO Trust research shows aids recruitment, retention and the bottom line.

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