Nutritionals

Overview

The Nutritionals business unit is a leading supplier of advanced technology whey proteins and fractions, flax and customised micro-nutrients, vitamin and mineral premixes. It comprises three separate businesses – Ingredient Technologies (business to business ingredient developer and distributor); Customised Solutions (business to business premix solutions provider) and Optimum (business to consumer, manufacturer and marketer of nutritional supplements) – serving the health and wellness, functional foods, sports nutrition, infant and clinical nutrition sectors. Nutritionals employs 555 people at locations in the USA (Wisconsin, Idaho, Illinois, California, Missouri, Florida and South Carolina); Canada (Manitoba); Europe (Ireland, UK, Belgium and Germany) and Asia Pacific (China, Singapore and Malaysia).

Market positions

Brands

Glanbia is building a worldwide reputation for customised products, innovative processing technologies and outstanding customer service. The company has a number of advanced, differentiated branded ingredients. Brand strength improved in 2008 with the addition of the ON and ABB brands. Other brands include Provon® WPI, Avonlac™ WPC, Thermax® whey proteins, Prolibra® weight management solution, Meadowpure™, CFM® WPI, Bioferrin® lactoferrin, Salibra® bioactive whey fraction, Trucal® dairy calcium, Provon® Revive a sports protein recovery solution; Barflex®; Barmax™, BarGain™, and BarPro™ bar solutions.

Innovation

Through our network spanning Asia, Europe, the USA and Canada, our well resourced Innovation Centres in Ireland and the USA, and through partnerships with academic institutions, the Glanbia Nutritionals Innovation team delivers expert science-based nutritional solutions to meet customer demands. These innovative nutritional solutions include a variety of specialty whey protein and fractions, milk proteins, dairy calcium, minerals, vitamins, flax, and other nutritional ingredients.

In 2008, further investment was made in developing internal science and technological capabilities in whey fractionation. This is creating real benefits as Nutritionals moves into higher value added solutions and formulations for the food, beverage and pharmaceutical industries.

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