Brenntag Food & Nutrition signs agreement with Axiom Foods for EMEA
Dear all,
Please find attached the press release of Brenntag Food & Nutrition regarding the agreement with Axiom Foods for the distribution of its plant-based products in EMEA, excluding UK & Ireland.
For further information please see the press release.
Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have further questions.
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Svenja Konradt
Essen, September 12, 2019
Brenntag Food & Nutrition signs agreement with Axiom Foods for EMEA
Brenntag Food & Nutrition has signed an agreement with Axiom Foods for the distribution of its plant-based products in EMEA, excluding UK & Ireland. Axiom Foods headquartered in Los Angeles, CA, USA, is specialized in plant-based ingredients, such as rice and pea proteins.
"Axiom's sustainable product portfolio will reinforce our position in the vegetable proteins business. The plant-based products have an important role in vegetarian, vegan as well as allergen-free applications, functional food and bakery. This agreement is an important step for us into the continuously growing plant-based food industry which has a promising future ahead", states Frank Haven, Vice President Food & Nutrition EMEA.
"For us Brenntag Food & Nutrition is the ideal distribution partner in Europe. With its application expertise and local presence throughout EMEA, this agreement offers us the extension of our market reach in a region where we are just starting to establish our high-quality, clean-label product portfolio", says David Jay Janow, President of Axiom Foods.
Axiom's current plant-based, product portfolio includes patented proteins (rice, pea, etc.); rice and oat dairy alternatives, rice sugar, and pea starch, which are used in meat and dairy analogues, snacks, cereals, baked goods, frozen desserts, as well as nutritional powders, beverages and bars.
About Brenntag Food & Nutrition:
Brenntag Food & Nutrition, part of the Brenntag Group, is a leading provider of food ingredients to the marketplaces around the globe. We built a reputation of partnering with the best suppliers of ingredients and additives and deliver right to our customers' needs and requirements. With more than 750 dedicated employees, a presence in 76 countries and 28 application and development centers, Brenntag Food & Nutrition provides technical expertise, tailor-made formulation and application solutions, a broad portfolio of specialty and commodity ingredients and profound industry know-how in the segments meat, poultry & fish processing, bakery & bread, dairy & ice cream, beverages, chocolate & confectionary, convenience food and fruit & vegetable processing. Brenntag Food & Nutrition makes its business partners "Sense the difference".
For more information, please visit www.brenntag.com/food-nutrition
About Axiom Foods:
On the cutting edge of plant-based food technology, we're involved in clinical trials, education and affecting change in the global food supply. Developing sophisticated, sustainable nutrient dense ingredient solutions for sustainable, human nutrition, Axiom brings compassion to the food business by showing that animals are no longer necessary to build muscle. We're at the forefront of pea and rice protein becoming the new meat.
Press contact: Svenja Konradt Brenntag Food & Nutrition Messeallee 11 45131 Essen Germany Telephone: +49 (201) 6496-1479 E-Mail: svenja.konradt@brenntag.de www.brenntag.com/food-nutrition