Southern Paprika

Southern Paprika Limited (SPL) was formed in 1998 as a joint venture between ACL and The Levarht Company of Holland and the construction of a new 2.5 ha glasshouse commenced just outside of Warkworth which is around an hour's drive north of Auckland. Our company name, Southern Paprika, was created because we are in the Southern hemisphere, and in t... he northern hemisphere capsicums are known as Paprika. (We don't make the red spice of the same name). The joint venture came about as a solution to supply capsicum to Levarht's customers in Japan from New Zealand in the Northern Hemisphere winter. (Our NZ grown capsicums are grown year round). Levarht's international marketing experience has helped SPL grow rapidly into a large scale specialist in the capsicum market and since inception, the distribution network has strengthened and now incorporates consigning product to various supermarket chains and markets in Japan, Australia and Canada, while we try to keep up with the ever increasing domestic demand in New Zealand. Over the years we have added additional glasshouses in 4 separate complex's and now have a total of 27 ha of state of the art glasshouses (which includes the original 1 ha leased from ACL at Point Wells). We are New Zealand's largest single site glasshouse grower of quality capsicums. In these 4 complex's we have almost 1 million capsicum plants each producing around 40 capsicums per plant per season.Read More