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Justin Riley, originally from Invercargill, has been appointed as chief executive of NZ Functional Foods, the company in charge of building a carbon-neutral oat milk factory at Makarewa.
Former Southlander Justin Riley has been appointed chief executive of an industry-leading endeavour to build an oat milk plant near Invercargill. Riley is now the chief executive of NZ Functional Foods, the company overseeing plans for a proposed carbon-neutral plant at Makarewa, which could be operating by the end of 2022 and pumping out 40 million litres a year. Ten years ago baristas would say they could pick who drank alternative milks, nowadays “you can’t tell,” as a large cross section of society consumed non-dairy milks, Riley said.