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Louis Dreyfus Company signs binding agreement to acquire BASF’s Food & Health Performance Ingredients business
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Tuesday, 28 January, 2025, 16 : 00 PM [IST]
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Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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Louis Dreyfus Company (LDC), announced the signing of a binding agreement for the acquisition of BASF’s Food and Health Performance Ingredients business, including a production site and state-of-the-art R&D centre in Illertissen, Germany, and three application labs outside of Germany.?
Michael Gelchie, LDC’s chief executive officer, said, “In line with our strategic plans for revenue diversification through more value-added products and growth in downstream markets, this agreement is an opportunity to accelerate LDC’s participation in the rapidly growing plant-based ingredients market. We are excited about the prospect of this transaction, as LDC’s first investment in dedicated facilities to produce food and health performance ingredients at scale.”
Michael Heinz, member of the board of executive directors of BASF and responsible for the Nutrition & Health division, said, “Building on our teams’ success to develop this business very well over the last years, LDC as a future-oriented company can offer our employees and portfolio a promising perspective. The divestment of this business to LDC supports our strategic portfolio optimisation and will allow us to focus on our core businesses in Nutrition & Health. We remain committed to leveraging our core product platforms and expanding our business in key areas such as vitamins, carotenoids and feed enzymes.”
Food and Health Performance Ingredients business produces plant-based food performance ingredients and emulsifiers, as well as health ingredients, and commercialises these globally. Through the proposed acquisition, LDC aims to leverage its existing strengths in oils and fats, glycerine and lecithin, as well as its global supply chains, to reinforce its global position in nutritional and functional ingredients.
James Zhou, LDC’s chief commercial officer and head of Food & Feed Solutions, said, “BASF’s Food and Health Performance ingredients business is?highly complementary to LDC’s existing Food & Feed Solutions Platform portfolio and, with the integration of these activities, we see strong potential to accelerate LDC’s evolution from reliable raw material provider to trusted solutions advisor as well, partnering our global customers to develop attractive applications for bakery & confectionary, non-dairy, instant foods, personal care and healthcare.”
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