Zespri won the Newstalk ZB Most Improved Performance Award at this week's Deloitte Top 200 Awards, beating out Trade Me and Kathmandu in the category.
"We're thrilled to be recognised with this award, on the back of a record-breaking season and great market performance of Zespri SunGold," said chief operating officer Simon Limmer.
"Our industry is built on partnership. With growers and post-harvest as well as research providers such as Plant & Food Research. We've all worked together to achieve this success and deliver the premium, tasty, healthy fruit our consumers want."
Zespri had sold the largest-ever volume of fruit last season, with record returns to growers, Mr Limmer said, and the industry was back on track to more than double global sales to $4.5 billion by 2025.
The overall winner was Z Energy, which took out the Company of the Year award, while its boss Mike Bennetts was awarded Chief Executive of the Year.