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Proteins major Avril acquires lecithin and phospholipid specialist Lecico
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Thursday, 10 January, 2019, 13 : 00 PM [IST]
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Paris
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Avril, a known name in oilseeds and proteins sectors, has announced the acquisition of Lecico, a German company specialised in lecithins and phospholipids. The group is thus further structuring and developing its lecithins and specialty ingredients activities.
Following the recent launch of two sunflower lecithin units in France and Romania along with the successful integration of the specialty ingredients player Novastell, the company will further structure and grow its ingredients activities with the acquisition of Lecico.
Lecico will join Avril Oil & Ingredient Solutions platform, the dedicated business unit of Avril focussed on refined oils, specialty oils and ingredients. Through the various subsidiaries of Avril group (Saipol, Lesieur, Kerfoot, Novastell), Avril OIS already offers to the food, health & nutrition, personal care and cosmetics markets an extensive portfolio of vegetable oils and ingredients produced by its European facilities.
The acquisition will favour numerous synergies and complementary solutions, and allow the group to continue developing innovative solutions for its customers.
According to Olivier Delamea, general manager of the oilseeds processing and oils & condiments business lines within Avril: "The acquisition of Lecico marks an important stage in the acceleration of our products and services offer for health and nutrition businesses which is part of Avril strategy. Avril Oil & Ingredient Solutions platform is expanding its global market reach with a new German team and site that join the Avril Group.”
For Olivier Tillous-Borde, MD of the Avril OIS platform: "With the acquisition of Lecico, Avril is becoming a global player in non-GM lecithins. Synergies with our existing Ingredients activities are obvious and our joint market reach will be stronger. Avril is dedicated to further develop Lecico leadership in high-quality organic lecithins. We are very much looking forward to welcoming the Lecico team as they join the Avril Group.”
For Andrea Wolters and Jens Heiser, founders and MDs of Lecico: "As part of Avril, we trust Lecico’s business and team will keep growing in line with the professionalism and the values we have always aimed to differentiate with. Leveraging Avril’s support and capabilities is a great opportunity for Lecico in the future”
For Valérie Barrois, sales and business development director for ingredients at Avril OIS: “Since the acquisition of Novastell by Avril, our team has significantly grown the range of natural ingredients and solutions we can offer to our health & nutrition customers: from vegetal, egg-based and marine phospholipids, through natural antioxidants as tocopherols, to innovative specialty oils and other bio-active ingredients (folates, Vitamin K2…). With Lecico joining Avril, we now also offer milk-based phospholipids, unique polar lipids with main applications in infant nutrition and used as well for immunity and anti-inflammatory purposes in adult nutrition.”
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