How Cossiga Became Cossiga

The Cossiga Story

Built here.
Built to go
further.

New Zealand owned and operated. More than three decades of making food look great - and doing things a little differently along the way.

Modern Cossiga food display

Then / now

The look changed.
The obsession didn't.

Original Cossiga logo
Current Cossiga logo

Where it started

1992

New Zealand.

Cossiga started in New Zealand and remains New Zealand owned and operated today.

The business has grown, the products have changed and the markets have expanded. But the idea underneath it all has stayed remarkably simple.

Make food look great.
Build products that work in the real world.
Stay close to the people using them.

From the archive

Before today's Cossiga, there was this.

Food display has changed enormously. So have we.

Every generation of Cossiga product has taught us something about visibility, temperature, service, reliability and the simple commercial reality that food sells when it looks right.

Historic Cossiga food display product Cossiga archive
Earlier generation Cossiga food cabinet Cossiga archive
Historic Cossiga display equipment Cossiga archive

The journey

How we got here.

1992 Cossiga begins trading in New Zealand.
2006 New ownership and a bigger ambition.
2008 Manufacturing moves into China.
2009 Cossiga Australia is established.
2014 Cossiga UK is established.
2015 Our Foshan manufacturing operation takes the next step.
2019 Warehouse and showroom in the UK established.
Today New Zealand thinking. Global reach.
Cossiga manager inspecting a next generation product at the Foshan factory

Doing things differently

We don't just design it.
We build it.

Cossiga products are designed in-house and manufactured in our own operation in Foshan, China.

That gives us direct control over the design, the detail and the standard - from an idea on a page to the cabinet that arrives on site.

Designed in-house.
Manufactured in Foshan.
5S lean manufacturing.
Cossiga quality control.

The long-term idea

Halfway to
anywhere.

The ambition was never simply to export cabinets from New Zealand. It was to build Cossiga in a way that could serve markets properly — with manufacturing, stock, people and support positioned where they made sense.

NZ

Auckland

New Zealand home. Product thinking, logistics and local sales.

CN

Foshan

Cossiga manufacturing at the centre of the supply chain.

AU

Melbourne

Local warehouse, showroom, sales and support.

UK

Liverpool

Local warehouse, showroom, sales and support.

Same thinking. Different markets.

The standard travels.

Cossiga installation in Auckland New Zealand
New Zealand

Auckland.

Cossiga foodservice display at the Melbourne Cricket Ground
Australia

Melbourne.

Cossiga food display at Soho Coffee Liverpool
United Kingdom

Liverpool.

Still moving

Same brief.
Better answer.

Beautiful and reliable aren't a trade-off. They're the brief.

We keep sharpening the product because the people using it keep moving too. New formats. New spaces. New expectations.

Modern Cossiga food display
Cossiga display at Loveys Patisserie Melbourne
Smiling operator with Cossiga display

Design first.
Function always.

Trusted in the real world

Some brands we work with.

From supermarkets to fuel, Cossiga works with major operators who need food display to perform day after day.

Built for real service

Different customer.
Same standard.

A bakery, a supermarket, a stadium or a fuel stop. The environment changes. The job doesn't: keep the food visible, looking right and ready to sell.

Cossiga food display at Z Energy

Great product is only half the job

We make the rest easy.

A supplier should make your job easier, not create another one. From first brief to everyday service, we stay close and keep things moving.

01 Easy to specify.
02 Easy to sell.
03 Easy to deliver.
04 Easy to install.
05 Easy to support.

What comes next

Better cabinets. Better choices.

The same thinking now extends to how our products perform over their lifetime, the refrigerants we use and the impact of the way we operate.

Explore sustainability →
Cossiga R290 Green Energy natural refrigerant

After all of that

The idea is still simple.

Food should look as good as it tastes.

Not occasionally. Not in the right light, on a good day. Every service. Every shift. Every market.

We don't design for showrooms. We design for the moment food meets a customer.

Stop.
Look.
Buy.

The Cossiga Way

Put Cossiga
forward with
confidence.

Easy to work with. Hard to beat.