Global Dairy Trade

About Global Dairy Trade

Global Dairy Trade is the world’s leading dairy trading and price discovery platform. Through its transparent, rules-based dairy trading platforms and dairy trading insights services, GDT brings together buyers and sellers from more than 80 countries, facilitating approximately US$2–3 billion in trade annually and creating independently established reference prices grounded in genuine market activity. 
These trading insights are widely used across the dairy sector to support physical trade, contracting, market analysis and financial risk management. The strength of GDT’s price discovery is underpinned by its proven methodology, neutral market-based mechanism and participation from the global dairy community. Alongside its trading platforms, GDT provides dairy trading insights that help organisations better understand market movements and make more informed commercial decisions. Founded in New Zealand in 2008, GDT operates internationally and is jointly owned by New Zealand Exchange (NZX), Fonterra and European Energy Exchange (EEX).