Case Study: Bidfood achieves faster archive access and stronger email security with Mimecast

Managing and Accessing Data Archives Provides Food For Thought For Provisions Wholesaler

Bidfood, one of New Zealand’s largest wholesale food distributors, faced an unwieldy email archive and a legal requirement to retain communications for at least 10 years. Large mailboxes and slow, inaccurate searches made compliance and daily operations difficult, while email remained the company’s biggest security vulnerability—posing risks to orders and time‑sensitive product recalls.

Bidfood implemented Mimecast for cloud archiving and Targeted Threat Protection, which streamlined retention, halved restore times, and made searches fast and accurate. The service blocked malicious messages before they reached staff, cut helpdesk tickets, improved executive visibility into security, and delivered ROI in about six months, freeing IT and users to focus on higher‑value work.

Bidfood

Dan Morgan

Chief information officer