Ingredient suppliers publish results of consumer research
Acquisitions and partnerships develop to strengthen ingredient portfolios
North Tonawanda, N.Y.-based Solvaira Specialties announced that it now will offer VIDOFIBRE BF Sugar Beet Fiber Products. The company recently entered into an agreement with Switzerland-based Unipektin Ingredients AG to be the exclusive distributor of VIDOFIBRE BF in the United States, Canada and Mexico.
Keeping with its efforts to promote sustainability and economic fairness, privately owned Ciranda Inc., Hudson, Wis., announced that 100 percent of its shares were sold to an Employee Stock Ownership Plan. Ownership of the company will be shared with all eligible employees through annual stock distributions, giving employees a growing ownership stake in the company, it says. The sale became effective Oct. 1, at the start of the company’s fiscal year.