We love New Zealand; it is a remarkable place to produce natural health products and our livelihood depends on nature remaining just the way it is. We are committed to help preserve and improve the quality of life and environment for generations to come

On receipt of each registration to the Comvita health e-matters newsletter Comvita undertakes to donate NZ$1.00 to help support environmental and community projects through the Nature of New Zealand Foundation.

Otanewainuku Kiwi Trust Sponsorship
The Comvita sponsored information board located in the Otanewainuku Forest shelter adds a further insight to the species of birds and plants to be seen in this special Bay of Plenty native forest. Information brochures were also funded by Comvita. Read more.

City Partner
Comvita is a city partner of the Tauranga City Council and is involved in a project to develop Kopurererua Valley by way of native tree donation and the development of the “Birds, Bees, Kids and Trees” community education programme for children.

Comvita donated trees and funding to the value of $15,000 in 2006. A planting day was held for Comvita staff, friends and family. City Council.

Top School
The annual Comvita Top School event is a major fundraising event for the local Paengaroa School. 18 teams from local Primary and Intermediate schools competed in a range of sporting events. The proceeds contribute to major investment projects including laptop computers and a junior school playground/sandpit.

Comvita Scholarship For East Cape Beekeeper

Comvita is providing a beekeeper scholarship as part of its commitment to helping develop sound, sustainable beekeeping businesses in the East Cape region.  Peter Te Kani from Potaka, Cape Runaway commenced a scholarship with Bay of Plenty beekeepers.  

This is just one of the East Cape projects initiated by Comvita with the aim of establishing a sustainable supply of manuka honey.  Other initiatives include an agreement with Ngati Porou iwi to foster a beekeeping industry around Waipiro Bay and produce manuka honey on otherwise unproductive land.
Sport Sponsorships

Sport Sponsorships
Team Comvita, ranked No.1 New Zealand Women’s Beach Volleyball champions have been supported by Comvita since 2002, Susan Blundell and new partner Anna Scarlett promote the Comvita brand and a healthy, active outdoor lifestyle.

Top cyclist Julian Dean who has competed in the Olympics, Tour de France, Tour of Britain and Tour of Switzerland plus others, is also sponsored by Comvita and a fan of Comvita natural health and wound care products. www.juliandean.co.nz

Melissa Moon is two times World Mountain Running Champion - Italy 2001, Alaska 2003 and World Stair racing Champion in Kuala Lumpur in 2002. She also holds 21 New Zealand Athletic Titles in Mountain, road, track and cross country running. Melissa says that Comvita Manuka honey has always been an essential part of her diet and performance as an athlete.

Green Globe 21

Green Globe 21 is the global Benchmarking, Certification and improvement system assisting international industry to attain sustainability.  Green Globe 21 provides a certification system that responds directly to the major environmental problems facing the planet.

The Comvita Visitor Centre has spent considerable time benchmarking its energy and water consumption, waste production and disposal as well as implementing an integrated environmental and social policy.  The Visitor Centre achieved Best Practice results in Energy Consumption and Resource Conservation.

Comvita Environmental & Social Policy

Introduction: Comvita is committed to acting in a manner that preserves and helps improve the quality of life and environment for generations to come.

Goals:

Sustainability: To have strategies in place to measure, improve and report not only on economic, but also on its environmental and social initiatives and outcomes.

Environmental Standards: To meet or exceed all local body and national environmental standards.
Genetic Modification: Comvita is opposed to the genetic modification of food. The company has taken this position because it holds core values regarding the power of natural products to enhance human health, and because it believes the well-being of our environment is inextricably linked to the preservation of human health. Comvita believes that serious questions remain about the safety of GM food products, and argues that the public has a right to know whether it is products for consumption contain genetically modified organisms (GMO's).
Health and Safety: To meet or exceed all Health and Safety Standards.

Raw Material supply: Where economically sensible to do so Comvita will source from its supplier’s ingredients and materials that have a lower environmental impact. If there is a choice between suppliers, part of Comvita’s evaluation process will be its supplier’s commitment to sustainability.

Environmental impact: To analyse Comvita’s environmental impacts and to minimise these so we can reduce Comvita’s load on the environment and assist with lowering costs, and improving Comvita’s efficiency

Commitment to improvement:
To set and meet objectives every year to improve Comvita’s environmental and social impact.

Since 1995, Comvita has been actively supporting The Life Foundation, a charitable organisation set-up by ex-employee Jason Cobb to help alleviate the poverty and suffering in Orissa, Eastern India. In 2005 the Company made a financial contribution and supplied 16,000 tubes of Woundcare 18+™ and ApiNate™ wound dressings.

For the past 10 years, the Sunrise Rotary Club of Tauranga has been supporting Leprosy sufferers in Vietnam.
During the most recent visit to Ben San Leprosy Centre, located on the outskirts of Ho Chi Min City, local Rotary club member and registered nurse Sally Morrison, delivered 8,000 tubes of Woundcare 18+™ donated by Comvita.