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 103 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
| Advanced Food Products Bunge Foods Chr. Hansen Colorcon ConAgra Coors Corn Products Crompton & Knowels CSM Bakery Supplies Danisco Cultor Dow Chemical Eastman Chemical Firmenich Fleischman Yeast FMC Food Ingredients |
Givaudan Grace Cocoa/ADM Grain Processing Corporation Griffith Labs Guernsey Bel Hercules Food Ingredients Hoffmann-LaRoche Hoechst/Nutrinova IFF ISP Kerry Ingredients Kraft Food Ingredients John Labatt Land O’Lakes Loders Croklaan |
McCormick Meelunie America Midwest Grain Products Mitsubishi Int’l Niacet Corporation New Zealand Milk NutraSweet Kelco PGP International PQ Chemical Protein Technologies Quality Ingredients Rhodia/Innophos Staley/Tate & Lyle Union Carbide Universal Foods/Sensient |