NZ Avocado's own industry site confirms a 2026 Annual General Meeting (its 45th) for growers and industry, but as of June 2026 the organiser had not yet published the date or venue; the listed 25 August date and Club Mount Maunganui venue remain unconfirmed.
New Zealand's avocado industry body has confirmed it will hold its 45th Annual General Meeting in 2026, continuing the sector's long-running pattern of a late-August grower gathering in the Mount Maunganui / Tauranga area. On its official industry site, NZ Avocado states only that "details of the 45th Annual General Meeting will be shared in due course" (page last updated 3 June 2026), so the specific date and venue had not been publicly confirmed at the time of reporting.
The directory listing places the event on 25 August 2026 at Club Mount Maunganui, but neither the date nor the venue is corroborated by the organiser's own published material.
The meeting is run by NZ Avocado, the trading identity of the New Zealand Avocado Growers' Association and the wider New Zealand avocado industry structure that represents growers, packers and exporters. The AGM is the organisation's formal governance touchpoint with its grower base, typically paired with an industry and season update.
The audience is the avocado grower and industry community: registered growers, packers, exporters and industry stakeholders, rather than a public or trade-show crowd. This is a modest, members-oriented meeting, not a large conference or exhibition.
Club Mount Maunganui is a plausible and precedented venue: NZ Avocado held its 38th AGM there on 27 August 2019. More recent AGMs, however, have been staged at Mercury Baypark, also in Mount Maunganui, so the 2026 venue should be treated as unconfirmed until the organiser publishes it. Either way the event sits within the Mount Maunganui / Tauranga hub, which is well served by Tauranga Airport, State Highway 2/29 road links, and a broad spread of Mount and Tauranga accommodation.
Even a compact industry AGM is a recurring, calendar-fixed anchor for the horticulture MICE segment in the Bay of Plenty, drawing regional growers into Mount Maunganui each August alongside the larger kiwifruit-sector meetings that cluster in the same window.
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The NZKGI Annual General Meeting 2026 is a grower governance meeting held Thursday 20 August 2026, 11:00 am–12:00 pm at Mercury Baypark, Mount Maunganui, run by New Zealand Kiwifruit Growers Incorporated (NZKGI), the advocacy body for the country's kiwifruit growers.
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