Our business model drives and supports the growth of the Glanbia group. It makes the best of our assets and capabilities, like our customer base, diverse product range and worldwide presence, so we can innovate in ingredients and create market-leading nutrition brands.
How we add value
Our core capabilities
Brand power
Our brands occupy leading positions in the performance and lifestyle nutrition markets with an unrivalled product offering and key channel and category leadership. As an ingredient supplier in the B2B arena, the Glanbia brand stands for quality, integrity, innovation and sustainability.
Portfolio management
Glanbia has a strong track record of efficient capital allocation and portfolio management. Our use of a variety of structures including joint ventures supports financial discipline and strong returns of capital, critical to sustainable long-term growth both organically and by acquisition.
Operational excellence
We have decades of experience running large-scale manufacturing facilities. We have 27 state-of-the-art production facilities, including those of our joint ventures.
Science backed innovation
Our five R&D innovation centres work at the cutting-edge of science, creating the nutritional solutions and high-performance products that our customers and consumers need.
Our business model
Our business model has three strategic pillars.
Develop
We apply our sector knowledge, collaborative approach and science-led innovation to transform raw ingredients into nutritional solutions for our customers and products for consumers worldwide. We’re constantly innovating in our performance and lifestyle brands, adding to our ingredient expertise, and extending our digital capabilities.
Deliver
We source quality ingredients from secure supplies, because we know the raw ingredients market in depth and can cultivate mutually beneficial relationships with producers.
Our five innovation centres extract the best from raw ingredients, and our supply chains around the world meet the highest standards.
Grow
We’re the global leader in performance nutrition and have a growing presence in lifestyle brands. As a nutritional solutions provider and a leading producer of cheese, we collaborate with food and beverage customers worldwide, meeting their needs and exceeding their expectations.
Outputs
The value our business brings to its people, customers and communities.
Committed people
We retain our pool of talented employees with training and development programmes that are in line with our purpose, vision and values.
Thriving communities
Our business contributes to communities, providing employment and supporting the local economy. We encourage voluntary work and support like-minded charities.
Revenue
Our core strengths are our world leading branded products and ingredient solutions portfolios, admired by consumers and our customers. In 2019 revenue grew by 16.6% constant currency to €3.9bn.
Engaged shareholders
We have a progressive dividend policy which gives healthy returns to shareholders. The current annual pay-out ratio is between 25% and 35% of adjusted Earnings Per Share.