About Egmont Honey

​Egmont Honey is a family owned bee keeping business based in South Taranaki. The company is appropriately named after the towering mountain that overlooks the entire region. Also known as Mt Taranaki the indigenous Maori people of New Zealand have huge respect for this beautiful mountain.

It is a great source of food, honey, recreation and crystal clear water that flows down the fast moving rivers. The Egmont Honey bee keepers are proud to collect all of their honey from this great region.

We recognise that commercial pollination is extremely important to the world's food supply but the “Egmont bees’ are fully focused honey bees and only pollinate the  remote forests and pastures where they are based all year round”

James Annabell

James has been in the honey industry for 6 years and until recently spent most of that time based in Hong Kong where he developed the Asian market for two of New Zealand's largest honey companies. 

“After building up a significant number of bee hives with Toby I decided to leave the more corporate companies to concentrate 100% of my time on developing the Egmont Honey brand and working with our private label customers”

Toby Annabell

Toby has over 40 years of experience in the rural sector. He grew up on a sheep and beef farm in the Waitotara valley which is now home to thousands of bee hives collecting Manuka Honey. Toby went on to become a sheep and beef farmer himself and recently sold an agricultural contracting business to focus solely on sustainable honey production for Egmont Honey.
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“I am passionate about producing honey for our consumers. I enjoy the rewards of producing a sustainable product and increasing the bee population with our aggressive expansion of hive numbers”