Bay of Plenty kiwifruit post-harvest operator EastPack says its growers will share in more than $9.8 million worth of transactor rebates for the 2016 season.
EastPack chairman John Loughlin said the company's accounts were being finalised for release next month.
Growers would receive a bonus rebate of seven cents per tray, bringing the total rebate to 27 cents per tray. The final dividend for investor shareholders of seven cents gross per share brought the total dividend for the year to 12 cents, up 20 per cent from the previous year, he said.
"At this stage, we are seeing a very strong result and we have sufficient confidence to make this announcement," said Mr Loughlin.
"We achieved excellent production efficiencies with good volumes of fruit and strong asset utilisation throughout the year. The benefits of our capital development programme, which has progressed over the last three years to improve packing and coolstore efficiencies, are starting to provide significant return on investment."
The investment would give EastPack the opportunity to further improve performance in future years, he said.