Tate & Lyle and Sweet Green Fields announce partnership for stevia ingredients, solutions
Tate & Lyle PLC, a leading global provider of speciality food ingredients and solutions, and Sweet Green Fields, one of the largest privately held, fully integrated global stevia ingredient companies, announced that they have entered into an exclusive partnership to deliver innovative stevia ingredients and solutions to customers around the world. The partnership combines Tate & Lyle’s decades of sweetener expertise and global sales and distribution network, with Sweet Green Fields’ leading portfolio of stevia-based ingredients and supply chain. The exclusive distribution partnership begins on 3 April 2017.
“This is an exciting new partnership bringing together a collective passion for food, science and sweeteners,” said Joan Braca, president, Speciality Food Ingredients, Tate & Lyle. “Together, we will offer customers an extensive range of stevia-based ingredients and solutions to help them meet growing global consumer demand for healthier food and beverages with natural ingredients and fewer calories or less sugar. Tate & Lyle’s broad portfolio of sweeteners, applications expertise and strong innovation pipeline, combined with Sweet Green Fields’ expertise in the science of stevia, from seed to sale, will create significant opportunities for new product innovation.”