Diane Foreman

Diane Foreman is the Chairman of the Emerald Group Ltd.  Emerald has investments in healthcare, recruitment, industrial and commercial property and dairy processing and franchising.

Emerald Foods is an ice cream manufacturing company based in Auckland where the Movenpick, Killinchy gold, Heavenly Treats, Zilch and New Zealand Natural ice cream is manufactured.

New Zealand Natural was purchased by Emerald about 4 years ago and is an international franchise operation with approximately 400 stores world wide.  We currently operate in NZ, Australia, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, Viet Nam, China, Hong Kong, England and Ireland.  We are in the process of opening new franchise operations in the United Arab Emirates and India.

We have 25 stores in China and have been operating there for 2 years.  It is our intention to open another 10 stores in the next 6 months.

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