Working with Suppliers
What do we offer our Supplier Partners?
- Creative opportunities for sales promotion and marketing your brands.
- A wide variety of channels through which to take your goods to market.
- Full coverage of the lower half of the North Island.
- Access to nationwide distribution network with our sister companies, Gilmours in the upper North Island and Trents in the South Island.
Toops Food Safety Programme
In 1997 amendments to the Food Act 1981 allowed businesses to design and implement their own HACCP-based Food Safety Programme (FSP) which would gain them an exemption from the Food Hygiene Regulations 1974.
At Toops we are committed to providing safe food to our customers. We are now implementing a HACCP-based FSP in each of our warehouses.
Any commitment to Food Safety will require complete support through the entire supply chain. We will be asking our suppliers to verify that the FSP used by them meet the legislative requirements of an HACCP-based FCP. Suppliers that meet these requirements will be considered Food Safety Approved Suppliers.
To become Food Safety Approved, each supplier will need to provide evidence to Toops Wholesale Limited that their processes and distribution provide safe food to all Toops warehouse sites.
Our Food Safety Approved Supplier Programme requires that:
- Suppliers provide verification that they or their delivery agents have an appropriate FSP that meets the set standard i.e. a Ministry of Health approved HACCP-based FSP, MAF Export Licence or MAF Domestic Licence (applies to slaughter houses only)
- Suppliers acknowledge product specifications and their delivery standards to Toops Wholesale Limited.
- Suppliers will notify Toops Wholesale Limited if at any stage they fail to comply with these standards.
Downloads
Below are links to downloadable copies of 2012 Importer, Distributors & Food Safety Declaration Packs.
Download 2012 Importer Declaration Pack
The New Line form is required for any new product submissions to Toops (this may take a few minutes to download):
Toops Promotion Submission forms need to be completed for any new promotional programme or a change to an existing programme:
Download an Oil Channel Promotion Submission Form
Download the Toops Birthday Promo Pack
Download List of Promotion Types
Download The Toops Mailing Address Promo Pack
The Toops promotion calendar will assist you when preparing your promotional programme with us:
Toops Flybuys Submission Forms and information:
Before making an application for a new product listing, we recommend that you talk with the appropriate category manager or buyer for the region you wish to supply. Full Foodstuffs category managers contact details can be found by registering on our SRM site, use the link here to access Supplier Information.
If you are looking to export to New Zealand and do not have a local office or agent, we recommend that you first submit details of your product offering and Company credentials by way of general introduction. We will then advise whether we are interested in taking matters further. Note that imported goods must meet all pre-requisites for supply i.e. they must comply with all the relevant New Zealand regulations and trade requirements.
Applications for new products must be submitted on a Universal buying form (UBF) to the relevant category manager. If you wish to supply each of the three Foodstuffs territories, a separate UBF form must be submitted to each of the three companies.