Sustainability in sourcing: How Symrise delivers the best of nature

Evolving consumer expectations are driving changes in chicken supply chains. Will your company keep up?

The chicken industry is facing challenges rarely seen before. Supply shortages, rising transportation costs, supplier inefficiencies, increasing consumer demands for more transparency, decreased environmental impact, and greater animal welfare expectations are leading to stiff headwinds that your company must navigate.

At the same time, the market is expanding at a rapid pace, offering many opportunities for innovation and growth.

As recent research shows, consumer expectations for food have moved beyond the label, driven by interest in the environmental, economic, and health impacts of the food products they choose to purchase. To maintain and grow their market share, companies must continue to meet these evolving expectations. Sustainable sourcing, traceability, clean labeling, and, of course, an authentic and reliable high-impact chicken taste that keeps consumers coming back deliver the key factors in achieving market dominance in the coming years.

As a trusted partner for comprehensive, integrated sourcing solutions, Symrise can help. Discover how our strengths with sourcing can power your success.

Sourcing solutions you can trust.

As the key tonality in soups, meals, and stocks around the world, it has become vital for chicken product companies to offer proven taste and to deliver at consumers’ price points. To add to this, there are further factors influencing consumer buying decisions: trustworthy, environmentally-conscious companies that attend to animal welfare in the production of a high-quality, organic product now gain an edge.

Sourcing

Get fresh chicken materials sourced close to the factory which process them
We contribute to valorizing every part of the chicken by minimizing waste across the value chain

Ethical Environment

Our animal welfare chicken range brings you chicken raw material that we source from farms that adhere to ethical standards, such as providing space for the animals to move around.
Animals can access the outside with straw bales, picking objects, and perches.

Clean Labeling

Use our chicken materials as kitchen-like ingredients free from: MSG, yeast extract, carrier, colors and added hormones*
(*in regards to EU regulation)
They are also non-allergenic.

Convenience

We provide you with chicken products with a shelf life of greater than 12 months in ambient storing conditions.

Working with multiple suppliers can help mitigate some risk, but it may also cause problems. Companies find themselves spending too much time dealing with unreliable supplies, missed shipment deadlines, and quality issues. Meeting consumer expectations for flavor, transparency, sustainability, and ethical standards seems more challenging than it has to be.

When companies work with Symrise as their single core supplier, they benefit from our ability to combine sourcing mastery with technological expertise. Through complete control of the sourcing through upstream integration, our chicken solution portfolios offer:

Full traceability
Local sourcing
Regulatory and veterinary compliance

Our unique business model values every part of the bird to deliver cost-effective solutions. We can offer this advantage because we control the supply chain from end to end.

With over thirty years of immersion in sustainability practices all over the world, we leverage our long-lasting, close partnerships to ensure consumer-driven sustainable sourcing solutions and certifications, including “organic,” “animal welfare,” and “non-GMO.”

These benefits translate directly to the consumer in the form of efficiency, reliability, cost-effectiveness, traceability, and consumer-driven industry-leading innovation.

Sustainability Along the Supply Chain

Consumers demand transparent, sustainable, local sourcing of fresh (never frozen) and fully traceable raw materials.

Thanks to our deep know-how with best-in-class sustainable sourcing practices, Symrise provides exactly that.

Strategic backward integration supports the key strategies we employ. This means going as close to the raw materials as possible, and working closely with our key sourcing sites, such as IDF and Berric, at every step of the process. We gently process raw materials to capture the highest natural properties and offer clean label solutions for your culinary and savory applications, from soups and stocks to meals and more.

Beyond supporting a consumer-preferred declaration on the back of the pack, and natural claims on the front of the pack, this also enables us to offer a full palette of tailor-made and proven high-impact taste solutions…at an affordable price.

You can benefit from responsible, sustainable sourcing, and unparalleled taste when working with Symrise.

Ready to expand your possibilities? Download our eBook “Chicken: Farm to future” today.

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