Company Summary: Tate & Lyle PLC is a British-headquartered global supplier of food and beverage ingredients and solutions, with a strong focus on healthier, tastier, and more sustainable food and drink. Originally a sugar refining business since 1878, the company diversified and divested its sugar business in 2010 to become a leading specialty ingredients company. They combine a unique portfolio of ingredients with solution capabilities to support customers in adapting to changing consumer needs, such as sugar and calorie reduction, and improving texture and fortification. They also supply ingredients for home and personal care and industrial applications.
Main Markets: Tate & Lyle primarily serves the global food and beverage industry, with a growing emphasis on health, wellness, and sustainability trends. They also extend their expertise to:
- Personal Care
- Home Care
- Industrial Applications Their history in sugar refining also means they cater to consumer sugar markets through their Tate & Lyle Sugars brand (which is part of ASR Group, a separate entity from Tate & Lyle PLC as a specialty ingredients company).
Main Product Categories & Descriptions: Tate & Lyle’s main products are high-value specialty ingredients and solutions:
- Sweeteners: A diverse portfolio including high-intensity sweeteners (e.g., sucralose, marketed under the Splenda® brand in some contexts, though Splenda is now a separate company for consumer products), crystalline fructose, and allulose, designed to help reduce sugar and calories in formulations. They also offer lighter options like granulated cane sugar with stevia and agave plant syrup for direct consumer use.
- Texturants: Ingredients such as starches and gums that are crucial for achieving desired texture, mouthfeel, and stability in food and beverage products.
- Dietary Fibers (Health and Wellness Ingredients): Soluble and insoluble fibers that enable fortification and digestive health benefits in various food and beverage applications.
- Stabilizers and Functional Systems: Blended ingredient systems designed to provide specific functionalities like emulsification, stabilization, and thickening in complex food formulations.
- Cane Sugar Products (under Tate & Lyle Sugars brand by ASR Group): Refined cane sugar products like caster sugar, granulated sugar, demerara, muscovado, and golden syrup, used for baking, cooking, and beverage sweetening.
