DKSH Business Line Food & Beverage Industry is a leading food ingredients distributor and global provider of Market Expansion Services for business partners in the beverage, dairy, confectionery and bakery, nutritional supplements, processed food and food service industries.
We provide food and beverage ingredients to manufacturers in the food and beverage industry, ranging from food raw materials to food additives and institutional products.
We help our customers to develop new innovative products and applications in collaboration with our valuable suppliers and our team of specialized staff.
With our long-standing business contacts and strategic market insight, we provide new and alternative sources for innovative food ingredients and food additives that help drive your business success. Through our comprehensive global network, which gives instant access to markets around the world, we provide responsible and traceable sourcing of hard-to-find food ingredients and raw materials.
We develop tailor-made new products, formulations and breakthrough applications in collaboration with our team of specialized staff from our dedicated award-winning innovation centers. Our market insight and broad overview enables us to scout for long-term trends in products and technology beyond short-lived fashions.
We provide all the required marketing and sales services as well as distribution and inbound logistics for companies lacking a global footprint. We have the capability to manage your entire supply chain, including import and export management, warehousing solutions and specialized services, such as labelling and invoicing.
Choose your market segment and explore our innovative ingredients and formulations:
Our Beverage & Dairy industry cluster provides you with a large number of different ingredients. We offer our market expansion services for ingredients in all formulations for beverage and dairy products
We procure processed raw materials for you and are constantly looking for new product trends worldwide.
Health Ingredients
Fruit and vegetable juice concentrates
Sweetener and natural colors
Flavors
Proteins
Calorie Reduction and Sweetener
Carbohydrates
Lecithine and Processing Additives
Fruit- and Plant Extracts
Specialities
Our areas of expertise include flavors/colors, enzymes, emulsifiers/stabilizers, preservatives, processing aids, sweeteners, health ingredients, glazors, bakery fillings, dietary vibes (incl. inulin, beta glucans, FOS,) and minerals.
We offer the following products:
Flavors/colors
Enzymes
Emulsifiers/stabilizers
Preservatives/processing aids/sweeteners
Health ingredients
Bakery fillings
Dietary fibers (inulin, beta glucans, FOS)
Minerals
Proteins
Calorie Reduction and Sweetener
Carbohydrates and Dietary Fibres
Lecithine and Processing Additives
Fruit- and Plant Extracts
Specialities
Our areas of expertise include concepts and applications for products including antioxidants, immune boosters, weight management and intestinal ingredients, amino acids, sweeteners and vitamins.
Amino Acids
Proteins
Calorie Reduction and Sweetener
Carbohydrates
Fruit and Plant Extracts
Specialities
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As a leading Market Expansion Services provider, distribution and logistics are the essence of our business. We also provide financing, sales and marketing to complete our core service offering. You additionally benefit from a range of tailored value-added services to support your growing needs including:
Innovation & Formulation
We develop cutting-edge products and formulations from our network of 18 state-of-the-art food and beverage innovation centers. We generate ideas, ensure compliance and provide technical training to increase market coverage for our clients. Our business partners benefit from a range of tailor-made solutions that reduce time to market and increase competitive advantage.
Sourcing
We provide instant access to markets around the world, including the major chemical producing countries. Our comprehensive network of over 60 sourcing specialists procures hard-to-find ingredients and chemicals and identifies reliable alternative sources for specific quality, price, quantity and delivery needs. We also act as an early trend scout to share knowledge of latest developments and technologies, ensuring our business partners remain one step ahead.
Regulatory
The regulatory landscape around the world is far from homogeneous. It is becoming increasingly complex as many countries introduce new systems and certification schemes to safeguard their economies. Keeping abreast of these changes can become very time-consuming for companies looking to expand in different markets. Our network of on-the-ground regulatory specialists have a deep understanding of regulatory environments and provide a range of support services to ensure our business partners are compliant.
Digital
Our Digital team supports you to drive business growth through digital transformation.
Through an integrated network of digital systems, DKSH embraces operational agility and applies advanced analytics to better understand industry trends and the needs of its customers.
DKSH supports its business partners to market and sell their products through an omni-channel approach involving digital marketing automation, industry-specialized marketplaces and DKSH Discover, a portal for specialty chemicals and ingredients.
All of these services combined enable DKSH’s business partners to stay ahead and remain competitive.