Join us for a quick snapshot of some of our sales in the 2015-2016 financial year:
We landed NZ $13,930,161 of product from our trading partners, and brought in 132 containers of artisan products. Or look at it this way…
We sold 15 tonnes of rice, that’s the average weight of around 5 adult female African elephants.
We imported enough coffee to make 61,305,862 flat whites.
We sold 233 cans of coconut milk every day, that’s 85,000 cans a year.
We sold more than 40 tonnes of drinking chocolate, the weight of around 33 adult male giraffes
| Summary of Trade Aid Trading For the year ended 30 June (excludes GST) |
2015/2016 | 2014/2015 |
| Income | $19,727,000 | $19,060,000 |
| Less cost of sales | -$13,059,000 | -$13,013,000 |
| Operating income | $6,668,000 | $6,047,000 |
| Administration | -$1,424,000 | -$1,384,000 |
| Education / Development | -$185,000 | -$210,000 |
| Producer partner support | -$805,000 | -$797,000 |
| Wholesale seller costs | -$790,000 | -$841,000 |
| Retail costs | -$3,710,000 | -$3,465,000 |
| Warehousing | -$674,000 | -$689,000 |
| Total expenses | -$7,588,000 | -$7,386,000 |
| Grant income | $922,000 | $922,000 |
| Other income less expenses | $140,000 | $326,000 |
| Surplus / (Deficit) | $142,000 | -$91,000 |
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