Food Ingredients

Wilmar is the company behind a brand most Chinese households know by heart: Arawana (Jinlongyu), China's best-selling cooking oil, which is made by Wilmar's subsidiary Yihai Kerry. The Singapore-listed group is the world's largest processor of palm oil and one of Asia's biggest agribusinesses, controlling the entire chain from plantations to supermarket shelves. The business spans the full agricultural value chain: oil palm plantations in Indonesia and Malaysia, oilseed crushing and refining plants across Asia, flour and rice milling, sugar refining, and specialty fats for the food industry (the palm oil derivatives in chocolate, ice cream, and instant noodles). Its logistics network — ports, tankers, and bulk storage — moves millions of tonnes of agricultural commodities a year. Founded in 1991 by Malaysian tycoon Kuok Khoon Hong (nephew of Robert Kuok, Asia's legendary sugar and property magnate), Wilmar employs about 100,000 people and generates annual revenue near US$67 billion. For food manufacturers and retailers, Wilmar is both ingredient supplier and finished-goods producer — and its vertically integrated model means it can source, process, and deliver edible oils at a scale few rivals can match.

Fonterra is the world's largest dairy exporter and New Zealand's biggest company, owned by around 9,000 New Zealand dairy farming families. Formed in 2001 from the merger of the country's two largest dairy cooperatives, Fonterra processes more than 12 billion litres of milk annually from farms across New Zealand, Australia and Latin America. The company produces a vast portfolio of dairy ingredients including milk powders, casein, butter, cheese, cream cheese and nutritional powders, sold under brands such as Anchor, Anmum and NZMP. Its research and development arm, the Fonterra Research and Development Centre in Palmerston North, is one of the world's leading dairy science facilities, driving innovations in infant nutrition, sports nutrition and cheese technology. For B2B buyers, Fonterra's NZMP ingredient business is a trusted global supplier of dairy ingredients to food and beverage manufacturers, infant formula producers and pharmaceutical companies in more than 100 countries. Its co-operative structure, rigorous food-safety systems and grass-fed supply chain make it a benchmark supplier in the global dairy trade.