Future Products Group is a private company with Head Office located in Napier, New Zealand. It is a limited liability company. Robert Darroch is Managing Director and CEO. The Darroch Family are the majority shareholders.

FPG is a manufacturer of:

• Food and drink display solutions including temperature-controlled cabinets which are sold internationally
• Custom fitouts in New Zealand for food retailers and hospitality.

FPG has a wholly owned foreign entity in China, FPG Shanghai, which has responsibilities for supply chain management and some manufacturing.

FPG also has business and service partners in Australia, India, Asia, the Netherlands, and the Middle East.

FPG manufactures and exports premium temperature-controlled food and drink display cabinets: refrigerated, controlled ambient, heated and ambient.

FPG also provides customised fitouts for food retail and food service primarily in New Zealand and the Pacific Islands. This includes design, construction and installation for everything from multi-site turnkey store fitouts to front-of-house restaurant cooking stations and buffets.

FPG offers temperature-controlled food and drink display cabinets globally, and custom fitouts for food retailers and foodservice located in New Zealand and the Pacific.

Set up for short run manufacturing, FPG can customise display cabinets to meet the specific needs of its customers. More than 90% of FPG temperature-controlled cabinets are configured or customised – either tailored to meet specific requirements or designed from scratch.

Custom fitouts can be anything from a food service station to a full design, construct and installation project for multi-site c-stores.

FPG primarily targets food retailers and food service providers across multiple sectors including:

Convenience stores (c-stores) and fuel retailers, supermarkets, quick service restaurants (QSRs), cafes and bakeries, FMCG, and hospitality.

For its food and drink display cabinet business, FPG works with large customers who operate retail chains or who distribute FMCG products. FPG offers them the opportunity to design and build custom cabinets that meet their specific needs.

For fitouts, FPG focuses on four primary market sectors:

1. Food service including hotels
2. Food and drink retailers including c-stores and supermarkets
3. Institutions such as schools, hospitals, and Government agencies such as Defence
4. Specialty food service such as entertainment venues.

FPG’s customers for food display cabinets have included:

• BP Australia, New Zealand, the Netherlands, and the UK
• Foodstuffs New Zealand incorporating New World, Pak’NSave and Four Square retailer brands
• McDonald’s – multiple countries
• 7Eleven Australia
• Woolworths/Countdown Australia and New Zealand

FPG’s customers for fitouts have included:

• Air New Zealand
• Auckland University
• BP New Zealand
• Langham/Cordis Auckland
• M Social Auckland
• NZ Defence Force
• Pullman Hotel Rotorua
• Skyline Queenstown and Rotorua
• The Remarkables (NZ Ski), Queenstown
• Z Energy

Many customers return to FPG to for re-fitouts and to replace end-of-life food display cabinets. We estimate that 80% of FPG’s orders are repeat business.

FPG manufactures its display solutions and fitouts primarily in New Zealand or China.

Antarctica Equipment is licensed for the manufacture and distribution of FPG food and drink display cabinets in India, Nepal and Bangladesh.

FPG. We have been engineering cabinets for more than 30 years and supplied food and drink display cabinets to a range of companies who operate globally including McDonalds, BP, 7Eleven, and IKEA.

FPG has been making display cabinets for over 30 years.

Read more about FPG’s history.

FPG takes every opportunity to reduce wastage in its manufacturing processes, and FPG food and drink display cabinets are more than 85% recyclable.

Read more about sustainability at FPG.

FPG prides itself on the relationships formed with our customers through the reliability of our performance, and the performance of our products.

Read more about FPG’s position Trusted. For Life.

FPG maintains an extensive gallery on our website with photos of the latest projects completed, and cabinets installed.

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FPG is constantly creating new cabinet models and completing projects throughout Australasia. Read more about FPG latest news.

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Rather than offer standard joinery fixtures, FPG designs and makes to order. This ensures that you get the best solution for your application.

Typically, FPG will create a unique set of standard modular fixtures and components for a multi-site customer to ensure consistent design and execution throughout their store network. The components are published in a core offer manual to enable ease of selection for individual stores and to maintain standards.

FPG starts a new project by understanding the business goals and drivers. It’s important to understand what is important to you and what your view of success looks like.

Read more about FPG’s process.

FPG supplies a range of solutions to c-stores and supermarkets. These include:

• Internal store design, construct and installation – the whole retail area or part thereof
• Robust supermarket checkouts
• Bakery displays
• Confectionary displays at checkouts
• Joinery for ambient product displays
• An extensive range of attractive and resilient temperature-controlled food display cabinets

At FPG we believe our food display cabinets are the best. We optimise food display cabinets across seven core areas:

1. Reduce operational costs. FPG considers technology choices and their impacts particularly on energy efficiency and shelf life of product.
2. Sell more. FPG includes features designed to excel in the presentation of food and drinks which help you sell more. These include super-bright LED lighting and, in many cases, shelves that can be repositioned and tilted forward to improve the customer view.
3. Enhance your brand. FPG offers a comprehensive range of optional accessories and cabinet finishing techniques to enable us to create a cabinet that reflects your brand.
4. Meet international compliance. FPG cabinets are tested in our environmental test labs to meet core standards for electrical emissions, consistent core product temperatures, and maximised for energy efficiency (STAR ratings in Australia/New Zealand and EPREL in Europe).
5. Support available for the life of the cabinet. FPG will provide spare parts, managing component obsolescence with substitute parts, for the life of the cabinet. We keep a record of cabinet serial numbers so we can refer to the right variant of your cabinet model to provide the right support to your service partner.
6. Extend cabinet lifetime. FPG cabinets are made from premium long-life materials such as stainless steel and low-E coated double glazed glass. We include features to enable FPG cabinets to be maintained by operational staff. An example are the pre-filters in refrigerated cabinets which trap dirt, preventing it from clogging up the refrigeration system.
7. Sustainability. We estimate that 85% by volume of FPG cabinets can be recycled at the cabinet’s end of life.

Ultimately, customers provide the proof. More than 80% of FPG’s revenue is derived from repeat customers, many of whom have purchased cabinets from FPG for more than 20 years.

Yes, FPG cabinets – especially those that are fully enclosed – are engineered to help extend shelf life of fresh food. The effect is more pronounced with unpackaged food.

In refrigerated and controlled ambient cabinets this is done through retaining humidity. By retaining humidity, food stays fresher for longer.

For heated cabinets it is through the heating technology. Products are gently heated using long coils in the heating element. This provides greater coverage throughout the whole cabinet eliminating hot and cold spots and reducing the pace at which hot food dries out.

Read more about how FPG cabinets extend shelf life.

FPG food display cabinets are largely made of stainless and mild steel, and low-E coated double-glazed safety glass.

If you value the full package of FPG value propositions then yes, your business will benefit from making an investment in these premium food display cabinets.

Taking into account operational lifetime costs, many FPG food display cabinets have the best Total Cost of Life.

Read more about factors that contribute to the total cost of life.

FPG supplies a range of cabinets to meet a specific customer’s requirement whether you are the corner store or a part of a multi-national corporate company.

To help you get started we have published Meet the Family. We encourage you to start there.

FPG refrigerated integral cabinets (where the refrigerant is on-board) are engineered with a vapour compression refrigeration system. This is a direct expansion system where the refrigerant is delivered directly to the heat exchange coil.

To understand the refrigeration cycle further and the other technologies FPG integrates to develop compliant and energy efficient refrigerated display cabinets, read more about refrigeration technologies.

FPG uses multiple heating technologies across its range of heated food display cabinets.

Enclosed heated cabinets use tubular heating elements with low wattage density. This system provides even temperature distribution throughout the whole cabinet.

FPG open front heated cabinets incorporate FPG’s unique IWave quartz infrared heating technology. Infrared is a proven heating technology with many applications in the food manufacturing and food service industries. Extremely energy efficient, it has been used in the restaurant business for more than 30 years.

Read more about FPG heating technologies.

Condensation is a naturally occurring phenomenon. Water will condense and pool if certain environmental conditions are met. The best way to mitigate it is to de-stock and power off refrigerated cabinets when the business is closed and/or to invest in a fit-for-purpose HVAC system which can accommodate the heat output of all the refrigerated appliances in the store 24/7.

Read more about how it occurs and what you can do to mitigate it.

Yes. High humidity and low air speed inside the refrigerated display cabinet will help to extend the shelf life of food, especially fresh unwrapped food.

Rear more about humidity management.

Default refrigerants for plug and play integral refrigerated cabinets are detailed on the cabinet spec sheet available from the cabinet product pages on the FPG website.

Many FPG plug and play integral refrigerated cabinets are supplied with eco-friendly R290 (propane): Encore, Impulse, Visair Upright.

Other FPG integral refrigerated cabinets such as Inline are supplied with R513A for enclosed cabinets and R449A for open front cabinets.

FPG can configure refrigerated cabinets with the correct fittings for connections to central refrigeration systems.  We will specify the charges/flow rates and the TX/EPL Valves required.

Refrigerant requirements vary around the world. Please advise FPG no later than the time of placing an order about your refrigerant requirements.