Our business strategy

Delivering on our growth ambition

Glanbia has evolved and grown over the past decade. Today, we are a better nutrition company, the home of consumer brands and ingredients that nourish millions around the world. The choices we do – and don’t – make, are guided by our purpose. Everything we do reflects our respect for each other and the earth. Each day, we set our sights on better and that has fed into our strategic priorities until 2025.

Our strategy

We have defined a clear set of strategic priorities: grow the core; optimise our business; and disciplined capital allocation will help us to achieve our 2025 ambitions. To support these priorities and harness Glanbia’s global growth potential, we will continue to develop our key enablers, our world-class strategic capabilities and our strong assets.

Our key enablers

Powerful consumer trends
Our markets have evolved and we are evolving with them, understanding and staying close to our consumers and customers.

Culture and talent
Our culture and talent are key sources of competitive advantage for us.

Disciplined financial management
We invest in the future success of our business. This investment supports the delivery of a strong performance and enables sustainable growth.

Sustainable operations
We seek to maintain a strong position on key sustainability issues in our sector including food safety and quality, diversity, equity, and inclusion and in particular our environmental commitments.

Strategy in action

How we're delivering on our ambition of better nutrition for every step of life’s journey.

Evolving our portfolio

A disciplined approach to M&A is at the core of our strategy as we pursue opportunities to strengthen our growth platforms as a brand owner and ingredient solutions provider. In May, 2022 we announced the acquisition of Sterling Technology, which represents an attractive addition to the Glanbia Nutritionals portfolio expanding our offering in immunity solutions. As part of this approach, we sold our stake in our UK and EU cheese joint ventures to our partner Leprino Foods Company. The proceeds of the sale will be used to drive further growth in our core business and return capital to shareholders.

GPN transformation programme

With strong delivery against both growth and margin enhancement initiatives, the GPN transformation programme has now matured, becoming embedded across the business. The capabilities of our teams have been enhanced with team members now applying the core programme concept – ideate, plan, execute – to all initiatives, whether focused on driving demand or increasing efficiencies. The benefits of the transformation programme are expected to be felt across the business for many years to come.

A culture of innovation

Our innovation and collaboration centres match our customers’ brand ambitions, providing the resources, knowledge, and expertise to solve their product challenges through co-innovation. We have a new innovation centre in Singapore and new R&D capabilities in Japan, further linking us with customers in the Asia Pacific region. In Europe and North America, we expanded our lab and facilities to support our growing business. Whatever our customers’ ambition, we are there to partner with them on their journey and to solve the challenges in bringing their products to life.