With nearly 70 years’ experience, Health Pak is one of New Zealand’s largest contract packaging companies and the country’s leading supplier of guest toiletries and amenities to hotels, motels and airlines.
Second generation family owned and operated, Health Pak has proudly manufactured and supplied New Zealand made portion control hair and body care and food and beverage products for the Kiwi Hospitality industry for over 65 years. As well as supplying almost all New Zealand hotels and motels, the company also supply six international airlines and export to Australia, the Pacific Islands, United Arab Emirates, Singapore, UK, Italy, Greece, China and the United States.
A Home-Grown, State-of-the-Art Facility
Health Pak’s 100,000 sqft state-of-the-art facility in Penrose Auckland is equipped with over 60 packaging lines that handle both food and non-food products in one of the most highly regarded facilities in New Zealand.
“We have a registered Food Control Plan which includes our HACCP plan and all supporting programs and a NZSFA approved RMP Program for packing honey for export,” explained James (Jimi) Kennedy-Grant, General Manager Sales & Marketing at Health Pak.
“We can handle all forms of products including those that require special handling such as temperature and humidity controlled environments. We also comply with the Contract Packaging audits from some of the best known global food producers in the world.”
Health Pak can also boast at being one of the most vertically integrated packaging companies in the world.
“In the case of a bottle of shampoo, right here in our own factory we make the bottle, cap, label, contents (including our own steam distilled essential oil and hydrosols) and filling all in our purpose-built production facility.
Experience Counts
Through pandemics, GFCs and the like, Health Pak’s customers have benefited from its product knowledge, dedication to innovation (Health Pak’s hair and body care products have been formulated to be biodegradable for over 15 years), supply chain strength (pretty easy to manage when you make virtually everything onsite) and pricing stability.
Locally Made, Locally Sourced
Health Pak have been certified Enviromark Gold for over eight years. The company manufactures all of its own hair and skin care products from local and imported ingredients.
“All the active ingredients for our hair and skin care are locally sourced, for example Manuka oil, Rewarewa honey etc.”
“We go out of our way to champion indigenous botanical ingredients and the guest feedback on this is unparalleled. We even have regional provenance over our botanicals, so Oliver & Sage EVO from Hawkes Bay or Kerikeri citrus oil as examples.”
Protecting the Planet
Everything that can be reused is refused at Health Pak.
“We do everything that is financially and logistically possible to minimise the environmental impact that our business and our products make. We are operating in a global market where the main competition comes from cheap, imported products, primarily produced in developing countries with little or no regard for the environment. In this market we do everything we can to offer products that are better, safer and more environmentally sound.
“For example, all the boxed products (shower caps, sanitary bags etc) that we supply, they are printed on 100 percent recycled, oxygen bleached carton board and printed using water based inks. Naturally the fact that the vast majority of our product isn’t shipped halfway around the world, but rather made in New Zealand goes a long way to ensuring that our products have the lowest possible environmental impact possible.”
A Family Business
Health Pak attributes its success to good old Kiwi ingenuity, its can-do attitude and most importantly, the loyalty and experience of its staff. Health Pak currently employs 80 staff, many of whom have been with the company for over 20 years (and one who has been with Health Pak for over 40 years!).
As well as working with Fairtrade to promote their message to over 21 million guests, Health Pak have also recently partnered with Gumboot Friday, a fun way to raise money for kids' mental health through I AM HOPE which is a brand owned by The Key To Life Charitable Trust, to bring a ‘gumboot’ tea to the market. Funds raised go directly to provide free and timely counselling for any young person in need.
It doesn’t matter if you are a visitor from the other side of the island or the other side of the world, guests want an authentic New Zealand experience, and Health Pak are the only 100 percent New Zealand made manufacturer.
“We understand the market, and the market trusts us in return.”
