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Expanding boundaries in food & beverage innovation

IMCD and FrieslandCampina Professional expand partnership to deliver Kievit® across EMEA, enabling brands to enhance quality and accelerate time-to-market for tomorrow’s food & beverage creations.

At IMCD, innovation is the company’s core driver. Together with FrieslandCampina Professional, IMCD enables food and beverage manufacturers to revolutionise taste, texture, and performance. The expanded agreement represents a strategic leap to redefine the future of food.

A bold new chapter

From 1^st January 2026, IMCD will be the exclusive distributor of FrieslandCampina Professional’s full Kievit® range in Germany, France, Iberia, Switzerland, Greece, and the Middle East, including Saudi Arabia, UAE, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, and Bahrain. These regions join IMCD's current markets in Italy, the Nordics, Poland, the UK, and Ireland.

Combining FrieslandCampina Professional’s ingredients with IMCD’s local labs and expertise helps bring innovation to IMCD's customers when and where they need it most.

Elevate your consumer experience with award-winning innovation

IMCD helps turn product ideas into reality by offering support with formulations, inspiration, and co-development. Working with FrieslandCampina Professional provides access to Kievit® ingredients that enhance texture, foam, taste, and mouthfeel in food and drinks.

The Kievit® range offers many options for product developers and chefs. With new standards in foam performance and creamers that provide rich texture and smooth mouthfeel, the market can confidently embrace new ideas that value creativity.

Kievit® Vana-Cappa is a foaming creamer for instant cappuccinos and single-serve systems, providing stable foam texture and height for diverse market needs.

Kievit® Vana-Monte offers the largest range of high-performance whipping agents, delivering smooth, light, creamy texture to premium desserts, mousses, ice cream and pastries.

Kievit® Vana-Blanca leads the market with dairy and non-dairy creamers, offering premium flavour, superior mouthfeel, and strong solubility.

Every Kievit® solution reflects purposeful innovation – engineered for functionality, driven by sensory appeal, and built for the future of food.

From curiosity to creation

Innovation does not happen in isolation. It occurs through the efforts of those willing to experiment, refine, and push beyond what is comfortable. That is where IMCD's expertise becomes essential.

Across IMCD’s global network of 80 technical laboratories, including 16 Food & Nutrition application labs and four pilot labs in EMEA, the company’s teams collaborate with customers to translate inspiration into tangible prototypes. IMCD explores ingredient collaborations, reformulates classics, and co-creates the next wave of consumer-ready concepts that balance performance with purpose.

Empowering the makers of tomorrow

Today’s consumers want more than just good taste. They look for products that have a story, such as plant-based but still indulgent, convenient but clean-label, and healthier options that are still satisfying.

This partnership helps manufacturers quickly and confidently meet changing consumer needs, supported by a wide range of ingredients.

IMCD is changing how ingredient innovation works, helping brands stand out with creative solutions that match what consumers want.

The journey ahead

Collaboration fuels exploration. With IMCD’s portfolio of taste, texture, nutrition, and functional ingredients, the company is powering the next food and beverage creations.

IMCD invites manufacturers, formulators, and creators to challenge the ordinary, reimagine the familiar, and help shape the next generation of foods and beverages in 2026 and beyond.

IMCD continues to push boundaries and unlock what is next in food and beverage innovation.

Explore the Kievit® portfolio with IMCD, and discover how this partnership inspires the next generation of food and beverage creations, one bold formulation at a time.

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