Who Solve Your
Toughest Challenges
We help dairy and food businesses across New Zealand and Australia pass audits, meet export requirements, and build the systems that protect their licence to operate – without the complexity getting in the way.
Senior expertise. Practical results
Produco was founded by Colin Oliver – former food safety leader at Fonterra and DPSAC (Dairy Product Safety Advisory Council) Chair with over 18 years experience at the senior level across New Zealand’s most demanding food businesses. Our team brings the same depth of experience across every project we take on.
We are not a solo operator. We are a team of specialists who work together, back each other up, and bring the right person to every problem – whether that is a factory floor audit, a China export registration, or a complete review of how your quality team is structured.
What problem do you need to solve?
Compliance issues ‘often’ come with advanced warning. It depends if you know where to look. Whether you have just failed an audit, are facing a food recall, have product stuck at the border, or are quietly building toward your next certification, we have solved it before.
We understand your world – no matter your Role
Whether you are managing a production line, running your own food business, or leading a national quality team, we have worked with people in your position before.
We know what is at stake and we know how to help.
Operations Managers – fix what is slowing production down
Quality Managers – improving systems. Free up time. Focus on the right things to shift the
dial
Heads of Food Safety – compliance that serves the bottom line
Business Owners – clear guidance from Day 1. We take your business to the next level
CEOs and Executives – independent reviews and strategic alignment. Structured reviews, KPIs, and
business unit performance
Export and Supply Chain Managers – products that cross borders without delay
NPD and Reformulation Leads – launch faster without compliance setbacks
Medicinal Cannabis Compliance Leads – expert navigation of a complex regulatory landscape
Food safety solutions built for real operations
Our approach
Identify.
Comply.
Quality.
Every engagement follows the same clear process – whether we are fixing an urgent problem or building a long-term food safety system.
Identify
We start by understanding your business, your obligations, and your gaps. Scope and stakeholder engagement – gap assessment – action plan.
We start by understanding your business, your obligations, and your gaps. Scope and stakeholder engagement – gap assessment – action plan.
Review your current food safety and compliance systems against the required standards to identify what needs improvement and what is already working well.
Deliver a clear roadmap with priorities, responsibilities, milestones, and practical next steps your team can act on immediately.
Comply
With a clear understanding of what is required, we develop, implement, and support the systems your business needs to meet compliance obligations confidently.
Create the documentation, food control programmes, plans, and systems required to meet regulatory standards, audits, and certifications.
Embed systems into day-to-day operations, working alongside your team to ensure practical adoption and long-term operational fit.
Guide your business through regulatory submissions, third-party audits, export requirements, and certification processes to achieve formal sign-off.
Quality
Compliance is the licence to operate — quality is the ticket to win. This stage focuses on building capability, culture, and continuous improvement across your organisation.
Develop a stronger food safety culture where regulatory compliance becomes part of your everyday behaviour – not just a requirement on paper.
Provide practical education and training that builds confidence, capability, accountability with your team, and consistency across your organisation.
Establish review cycles, monitoring systems, and improvement processes that keep your operation effective, audit-ready, and ahead of regulatory change.
Food Safety Without the Complexity
The full range of food safety and regulatory compliance expertise - under one roof.
Food safety challenges rarely sit in one area of the business. Produco provides end-to-end food safety and compliance support – from audit preparation and HACCP development through to export assurances and long-term quality systems.
We work across NZ's most regulated food sectors
Explore the food safety services built to support every stage of your business.
Dairy and Infant Formula
Food and Beverages
Honey
Meat and Abattoirs
Medicinal Cannabis
Petfood
Seafood
Transport and Logistics
Real results
The best measure of our work is the long-term relationships we build with the businesses we support — from factory floors and export teams through to senior leadership and compliance managers.
“I worked with Colin Oliver and the Produco team as CEO of both Miraka and Synlait. Produco helped us to reset not only our strategy for food safety and quality but also our culture. In addition, they provided support around structure along with an assessment of capability. The Produco team operate as partners and across both companies became trusted advisors.”
Synlait
CEO
Remarkable Cream
MD
“Colin and his team have always been great to work with – challenging our thinking but also working like an extension of our team.”
The Pure Food Co
CEO
“As the RMP Operator for Earth First Food, food safety and compliance is my core responsibility. Produco played a key role in developing the Risk Management Programme that underpins our mobile abattoir operation. Their approach was practical and grounded in how the system would actually operate day to day. The result is a management system that works in the field and has been accepted through audit. This has enabled us to operate within MPI requirements and supply meat directly from farm to customer, with full food safety assurance.”
Earth First
CEO
“Coming fresh to the leafy greens field we were fortunate that Colin and his Produco team were well recommended from the outset.
Thankful for their practical approach, wide angle trainings and insights, and timely links within the SQF global context.”
Leafy Chapman Onion Exports
Supply Chain Manager
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