uk.superbrands.com Superbrands UK Vol. 24 Market Tate & Lyle is a global organisation operating in 39 countries. With 3,500 employees working together across manufacturing, ingredient and application development as well as collaborating with customers, Tate & Lyle is helping to define the future of food. By understanding trends in food, nutrition and consumer preferences, Tate & Lyle provides expertise that enables brands, from multi-nationals to local players, to launch nutritious and innovative products with great taste and texture, and to enhance household favourites with health benefits and made with less environmental impact. Every day, across the world, millions of people enjoy food and drink containing Tate & Lyle products. Achievements Tate & Lyle is a purpose-led, science-driven and growth-focused business. Demand for its products, solutions and services are high and growing, with revenues of £1.4bn for the year to March 2022, an increase of 18% on the previous year. Tate & Lyle employees live the company purpose of Transforming Lives through the Science of Food every day to make a positive impact on millions of people’s lives. With ambitious targets and commitments, Tate & Lyle has supported healthy living by removing four million tonnes of sugar from people’s diets, equivalent to 16 trillion calories, in the past two years alone. Additionally, it has been building thriving communities with programmes focused on delivering nutritious meals to those in need, around three million since 2020. Finally, Tate & Lyle is focused on caring for the planet with stretching targets on emissions (having already eliminated coal from operations in 2021), sustainable agriculture, water usage and waste. History Henry Tate went into business in 1859 with John Wright, a sugar refiner. Ten years later, Tate’s two sons, Alfred and Edwin, joined the business, forming Henry Tate & Sons and a new refinery was opened in 1872. In 1883, Abram Lyle & Sons opened Plaistow Refinery in London. The two businesses merged in 1921 with great success, becoming a globally recognised brand. Fast forward to 1976 and Sucralose, a no-calorie sweetener, is discovered by Tate & Lyle in partnership with researchers at Queen Elizabeth College, University of London. This led to the creation of SPLENDA® Sucralose. Innovation continued and in 2007 PROMITOR® Soluble Fibre, a corn-based soluble fibre, was created. The sugar business was sold to American Sugar Refining, Inc (ASR) in 2010 and the long association with refined sugar production ended. The Tate & Lyle Sugar name was licensed to ASR to ensure the familiar Tate & Lyle brand remained on supermarket shelves. TASTEVA® Stevia Sweetener was introduced in 2012 to deliver a better-tasting, plant-derived solution that is suitable for use in sugar-free, no-sugar-added and reduced-sugar beverages and foods. The CLARIA® Functional Clean-Label Starches range was created in 2014 to offer a clean, neutral taste and colour, comparable to traditional modified food starches, versatile across a broad range of applications and sophisticated processes. The following year, Tate & Lyle became the first ingredient producer to commercialise allulose, a low calorie sweetening ingredient with 90% fewer calories than sugar, with the launch of DOLCIA PRIMA® Allulose. In 2022, the Primary Products business (bulk sweeteners, acidulants, industrial starches, personal care, co-products and ethanol) was sold, and Tate & Lyle became solely a food and beverages speciality business. Product Tate & Lyle is a leader in the creation of food ingredients. An enviable bench of the industry’s finest scientists, formulators and nutritionists ©Getty Images ©Nayeli Reyes Cuentos Culinarios
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