Te Puna-based company Heilala Vanilla has taken out the fastest-growing exporter and fastest-growing manufacturer awards in the central North Island section of the Deloitte Fast 50 awards.
Businesses that entered the programme were ranked according to their percentage revenue growth over the past three years, with the regional winners announced last Thursday. The 50 fastest-growing companies in New Zealand will be announced in November.
With revenue growth of 159 per cent over the past three years from its pure vanilla products, Heilala Vanilla was on a trajectory that would hopefully continue, director Jennifer Boggiss said.
"I would like to say that it's going to continue because I want us to be in the best restaurants and the premium food stores around the world. We've achieved that in New Zealand so we really want to duplicate that in our key offshore markets."
Heilala Vanilla's biggest export market was Australia but Mrs Boggiss expected that may soon change, with big new markets such as Brazil and Japan opening up to the company in the past 18 months.