{"id":452,"date":"2021-06-24T21:57:13","date_gmt":"2021-06-24T09:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dutchbusinessassociation.co.nz\/?p=452"},"modified":"2025-10-18T23:23:36","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T10:23:36","slug":"celebrating-40-years-of-mercer-cheese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dutchba.nz\/index.php\/2021\/06\/24\/celebrating-40-years-of-mercer-cheese\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating 40 years of Mercer Cheese: 30 Jun 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meet Albert, who for 40 years has been turning Waikato milk into world-class cheese. From the humble factory he built himself at his home in Onewhero, south of Tuakau, Albert Alferink makes Dutch-style cheese with milk from the cows at the neighbouring farm. He and his wife Ineke sell that cheese at their shop in Mercer, which gives the business its name, Mercer Cheese.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Celebrate Albert Alferink entrepreneurship, listen to his story, and have a taste of wonderful Mercer Cheese.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-heading\">When<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\">30 June 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Doors open at 5 PM<\/li><li>Speeches starting at 6 PM<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-heading\">Where<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\">Ponsonby Cruising Club, 141-151 Westhaven Drive, Westhaven, Auckland 1001<\/p>\n\n\n\n[googlemaps https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/embed?pb=!1m18!1m12!1m3!1d1295.0090840281337!2d174.7426893075585!3d-36.835428152250095!2m3!1f0!2f0!3f0!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!3m3!1m2!1s0x6d0d47e5e97b1009%3A0x5045e8240d07dec9!2sPonsonby%20Cruising%20Club%20Inc!5e0!3m2!1sen!2snz!4v1624523293731!5m2!1sen!2snz&amp;w=650&amp;h=450]\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-f56f613f wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:100%;\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Become a DBA member<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Get invited to all live and online network events<\/li><li>Access to the broad DBA network<\/li><li><strong>Free\u00a0<\/strong>entrance to events\u00a0<\/li><li>Bring one-non member to a DBA event for\u00a0<strong>free<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Expand your network, learn from international business experts, and be part of New Zealand&#8217;s premier Dutch business community for only $75 per annum. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button has-custom-font-size has-medium-font-size\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-background\" href=\"https:\/\/dutchbusinessassociation.co.nz\/membership\/\" style=\"background-color:#f89729;\">Sign up today<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Celebrate Albert Alferink entrepreneurship, listen to his story, and have a taste of wonderful Mercer Cheese.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":464,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,3,31],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-auckland","category-event","category-food-beverage","tag-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dutchba.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dutchba.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dutchba.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dutchba.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dutchba.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dutchba.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1404,"href":"https:\/\/dutchba.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions\/1404"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dutchba.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dutchba.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dutchba.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dutchba.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}