Food Ingredients

Overview

Westport Consulting Group offers valuable marketing consulting services to food ingredient manufacturers. Consulting services include category analysis, new business and acquisition analysis and specialty studies.

Representative Food Ingredients Projects

Syndicated Multi-Client Studies/Database
Conducted comprehensive study for food ingredient companies, on an annual basis, of over 85 food ingredient product categories utilizing proprietary database. Study includes category market size, growth trends, customer segments, competitor shares and category profitability.

New Business Development/Acquisition
Over 100 food ingredient product categories were analyzed using client objectives, criteria and WCG’s proprietary database. The top new business categories were identified which then led to a successful acquisition.

Specialty Chemicals Technology Application to Food Additives
Following extensive technical interviews with companies in promising food categories, a unique client specialty chemicals technology was successfully developed into a new food additive.

Representative Food Ingredients Clients

ACH Foods
Bay Valley Foods
Bunge Foods
Cargill, Inc.
Chr. Hansen
Colorcon
ConAgra
Corn Products
CSM Bakery Supplies
Danisco Cultor
Dean Foods
Dow Chemical
Eastman Chemical
Firmenich

Fleischman Yeast
FMC Food Ingredients
Griffith Labs
Hoffmann-LaRoche
Hormel
Hoechst/Nutrinova
IFF
ISP
Kerry Ingredients
Kraft Food Ingredients
John Labatt
Land O’Lakes
Loders Croklaan
McCormick

Midwest Grain Products
Mitsubishi Int’l
New Zealand Milk
NutraSweet Kelco
PGP International
Protein Technologies
Rhodia/Innophos
Rich Products
Sargento Foods
J.M. Smucker
Staley/Tate & Lyle
Union Carbide
Universal Foods/Sensient