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Tasteva™ Stevia Sweetener Wins Food & Beverage Innovation Award in Asia


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TASTEVA™ Stevia Sweetener awarded the Ringier Technology Innovation Award in the Food & Beverage Industry (Flavourings) at the 15th Asian Food Ingredients China Exhibition

Shanghai, China – Tate & Lyle, a global provider of specialty food ingredients and solutions, is pleased to announce that its natural, no-calorie sweetener TASTEVA™ Stevia Sweetener was awarded the Ringier Technology Innovation Award in the Food & Beverage Industry (Flavourings) at the 15th Asian Food Ingredients China Exhibition held in late June in Shanghai. This is the second award given to TASTEVATM Stevia Sweetener in June, following it being named Best Dairy Ingredient at the 2013 Dairy Innovation Awards in Lucerne, Switzerland.

TASTEVA™ Stevia Sweetener, a versatile, clean tasting sweetener, is easy to formulate with and has shown in tests to be preferred by consumers offering a superior taste profile over RebA 97 and other stevia products. TASTEVA™ Stevia Sweetener, which was launched in March earlier this year at the Food Ingredients China 2013, further enhances Tate & Lyle’s extensive sweetener portfolio which includes SPLENDA® Sucralose, PUREFRUIT™ Monk Fruit Extract and a wide range of nutritive sweeteners.

Philip Lin, Marketing Director, Asia Pacific for Tate & Lyle said: “Tate & Lyle is delighted to win this award and we are very grateful to Award organisers, Ringier and FoodBev Media, for their affirmation and support. TASTEVA™ Stevia Sweetener is an excellent addition to Tate & Lyle’s health and wellness offering and, when combined with our leading technical expertise and consumer research, enables us to develop practical ingredient solutions that meet the needs of our customers in China and across world.”

About Tate & Lyle:

Tate & Lyle is a global provider of ingredients and solutions to the food, beverage and other industries, operating from over 30 production facilities around the world.

Tate & Lyle operates through two global business units, Speciality Food Ingredients and Bulk Ingredients, supported by the Innovation and Commercial Development group. The Group’s strategy is to become the leading global provider of Speciality Food Ingredients through a disciplined focus on growth, and by driving Bulk Ingredients for sustained cash generation to fuel this growth.

Speciality Food Ingredients consists of three platforms: Texturants, which includes speciality starches and stabilisers; Sweeteners, which comprises nutritive sweeteners and our range of no-calorie sweeteners including SPLENDA® Sucralose; and our Health and Wellness portfolio which includes speciality fibres and our salt-reduction offering. Additionally, our food systems business provides a wide variety of blended ingredient solutions.

Tate & Lyle Bulk Ingredients includes bulk sweeteners, industrial starches and fermentation products (primarily acidulants). Corn co-products from both divisions are primarily sold as animal feed.

Tate & Lyle is listed on the London Stock Exchange under the symbol TATE.L. American Depositary Receipts trade under TATYY. In the year to 31 March 2013, Tate & Lyle sales totalled Ł3.3 billion. http://www.tateandlyle.com. SPLENDA® is a trademark of McNeil Nutritionals, LLC.



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