Food ingredients and packaging

We source and deliver raw and food-grade products around the world, providing superior quality, speed and flexibility.

Our products

Refined sugar

Refined sugar

  • Refined sugar in a range of formats
  • Direct consumption bagged sugar

We source various specifications of refined sugar from all over the world, delivering on price, quality and speed of supply. With over 160 years of experience, we provide a wealth of experience.

Nutritive sweeteners

Nutritive sweeteners

  • Crystalline fructose powder
  • Dextrose powder
  • High fructose corn syrup
  • Liquid glucose syrup
  • Maltose syrup
  • Native & modified maize starch
  • Native & modified tapioca starch

Lower calorie alternatives to sugar, providing sweetness and enhanced taste. We provide a wide range of nutritive sweeteners for the food and beverage industry.

Fruit concentrates

Fruit concentrates

  • Apple
  • Grape
  • Lemon
  • Mango
  • Orange
  • Pear
  • Pineapple
  • Tomato & more

Discover solutions for over 50 fruit products in a wide range of formats.

Beans, nuts & seeds

Beans, nuts & seeds

  • Cocoa powder
  • Peanuts
  • Sesame seeds

Our longstanding relationships in the food and beverage industry have led us to work with a range of nuts and seeds.

Dairy

Dairy

  • Anhydrous milk fat
  • Butter
  • Skimmed, whole & fat-filled milk powder
  • Whey protein concentrate

Sourced from key regions of Europe, Oceania and North and South America, we work closely with suppliers to offer the best quality.

Packaging

Packaging

  • Aluminium
  • Glass
  • HDPE
  • LDPE
  • PP
  • PET
  • rPET
  • Paper

Food grade bottle and film packaging including plastic resins and flake, glass, aseptic fibre packaging, and recycled packaging materials to serve the food and beverage industry.

 

Additives

Additives

  • Ascorbic acid
  • Calcium propionate
  • Citric acid
  • Malic acid
  • Potassium sorbate
  • Sodium citrate
  • Sodium benzoate
  • Xantham gum & more

Our range of additives includes preservatives and antioxidants, thickeners, and acidity regulators, improving shelf-life, mouthfeel and formulation in your products.
Molasses liquid dripping into a container

Molasses

Molasses

Supplying cane and beet molasses for use in the food and beverage, biofuel and animal feed industries.

Key achievements

By sourcing locally and supplying globally, CZ delivers strategic and commercial advantages. We move million of tonnes of product globally, including:

7.7mt

of product moved in 2022

120+

countries served

16

new products added in 2022

How we work

We create value at every stage of the supply chain by providing a range of value-add services including:

Farmers

Source & price
Price risk management
Physical trading & procurement
Move & deliver
Logistics, freight & last mile
Warehousing, stock management & VMI
Finance & de-risk
Trade and structured finance solutions
Price risk management
Advise & consult
Market and Business Intelligence
Corporate finance
Consultancy

Primary Processors

Source & price
Price risk management
Physical trading & procurement
Move & deliver
Logistics, freight & last mile
Warehousing, stock management & VMI
Finance & de-risk
Trade and structured finance solutions
Price risk management
Advise & consult
Market and Business Intelligence
Corporate finance
Consultancy

Secondary processors

Source & price
Price risk management
Physical trading & procurement
Move & deliver
Logistics, freight & last mile
Warehousing, stock management & VMI
Finance & de-risk
Trade and structured finance solutions
Price risk management
Advise & consult
Market and Business Intelligence
Corporate finance
Consultancy

Industrial consumers

Source & price
Price risk management
Physical trading & procurement
Move & deliver
Logistics, freight & last mile
Warehousing, stock management & VMI
Finance & de-risk
Trade and structured finance solutions
Price risk management
Advise & consult
Market and Business Intelligence
Corporate finance
Consultancy

A rich network of suppliers and buyers

We have many strong, longstanding relationships with large multinationals, local food producers and producers of food ingredients and packaging.

950+

Clients

100+

Countries

100+

Products

London

Miami

Mexico City

Nairobi

Dubai

São Paulo

Bangkok

Singapore

Tel Aviv

Guangzhou

Ho Chi Minh City

The Philippines

Medellín

Minas Gerais, Uberlândia

Minas Gerais, Uberaba

Trinidad & Tobago

Hyderabad

Dar es Salaam

Bahrain

Italy

Guatemala

New Zealand

Mato Grosso

CZ is holistic, agile and visionary.

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Christian Gaxiola

Commercial Procurement Director, Perfetti Van Melle

Quality assurance

CZ has real-time controls in place to support an effective, rigorous quality management system, including how we risk assess product quality, packaging suppliers, geography and legal requirements. We also provide additional verification and validation services.

We are a BRC company, scoring AA+. We are also a SEDEX member.

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Refined Sugar

Dairy

Nutritive Sweeteners

Fruit concentrates

Packaging