6 | LUXlife Magazine sing speciality ingredients, companies in the food and beverage industry can significantly enhance the performance of their products for the benefit of the end consumer. For instance, they can be used to improve factors like taste, texture, appearance, nutritional value, shelf life, convenience, and affordability. Some examples of speciality ingredients are natural preservatives, flavour systems, sweeteners, fibres, tea and coffee extracts, pre-pro-postbiotics, foodgrade colourings and flavourings, carrageenan, and more. The provision of these ingredients plays a key role in the creation of safe, nutritious, tasty, and convenient food and drink products for public consumption. For more than three decades, Savannah Bio Systems, known simply as “Savannah” in the industry, has been importing and distributing speciality ingredients to clients across the food and beverage industry, including the largest global multinationals, small startups, single product producers, and everything in between. Savannah’s head office and application kitchen is located in North Shore, Sydney, and the company’s warehousing and distribution capabilities cover Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth, Auckland and Christchurch. Savannah boasts a broad portfolio of ingredient technologies, covering a range of end user markets. This includes health and nutrition, bakery, dairy, beverage, confectionery, meat and poultry, savoury, culinary and fine foods, and plant-based products. For example, Savannah provides ingredients to the confectionary market, including emulsifiers such as PGPR, a selection of colours with a focus on carotenoids, and a complete range of natural fibres. As well as this, the company offers a wide range of plant-based ingredients that can be used to create unique, high-quality vegetarian and vegan products. To the baking industry, it also delivers innovative ingredients for baked goods that will add value, improve quality, and deliver clean label and cost savings to clients’ businesses. Through its excellent products and services, Savannah aims to fulfil customers’ needs and help them overcome their product development challenges. To this end, it strives to deliver ingredient solutions that are innovative, complete, and backed by specific industry and ingredient expertise. The company is able to do this thanks to its many exclusive supply partners, who provide Savannah with some the most cuttingedge ingredients on the market. These partners include Alland & Robert, Allied Biotech Corporation, CEAMSA, Haco, Hälssen & Lyon, Ohly, Palsgaard, to name a few. As part of its quality assurance programme, Savannah considers food safety to be a high priority. For this reason, it only partners with suitably qualified and validated suppliers. Moreover, to ensure that the high expectations of its customers are always met, the company utilises a system of continuous Best Speciality Ingredient Importer & Distributor 2023 – Australasia Established in 1986, Savannah Bio Systems imports and distributes a variety of speciality functional ingredients, serving clients in the food, beverage, health, and nutrition industries across Australia and New Zealand. The company prides itself on the fact that it does not just supply ingredients; it goes above and beyond to use its extensive industry experience and global partner network to help clients overcome the challenges in an ever increasingly competitive and complex environment. U improvement to drive the endless enhancement of its commitment to quality, legislation, and food safety. Accredited and certified by HACCP, SEDEX, and RSPO, Rainforest Alliance and Certified Organic (ACOS & EU), the company’s products can be fully trusted by its customers. To set itself apart from other specialist ingredient distributors on the market, Savannah is proud to offer an interesting and unique selection of products from its global network of raw material manufacturers. As well as this, the company’s commitment to service excellence is a distinct differentiator; customers are invited to get in touch with its highly qualified team for assistance or to discuss any challenges. Customers can also seek further information about the ingredients on offer. Due to its unique offerings and outstanding service, customers have remained loyal to Savannah year after year. As a result, since its establishment, the company has built itself an excellent reputation and a broad customer base, enabling it to grow and expand. However, like many other businesses, Savannah has faced a number of challenges in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. For example, the biggest challenge that has struck the ingredients sector across Australia and New Zealand has been pricing at all points, from raw material costs to shipping to foreign exchange pressures. On top of this, there has been a ‘lag period’ between the impact of imported cost drivers and manufacturers being able to renegotiate pricing structures with the major retailers. As a result, most manufacturers have had to absorb the cost increases that have occurred in between. Now, as the world continues to recover from the pandemic and other geopolitical events, global price pressures are generally reducing. Savannah is working quickly and closely with customers, aiming to provide them with the best possible rates. This can be accomplished by obtaining better raw material prices or ensuring the cost optimisation of their products through better technologies. Leveraging its strong global partnerships with its suppliers, Savannah has been able to support its customers, helping them to find competitive advantages across their range of products. As a result of its continued excellence despite the challenges it faces, Savannah has been named Best Speciality Ingredient Importer & Distributor, Australasia, in the Food and Drink Awards 2023. Having achieved impressive success over the years, the company looks towards a bright future of continued growth. We are thrilled to congratulate Savannah on its success in this prestigious awards programme and wish it the best of luck in the years to come. Contact: Scott Trethowen Company: Savannah Bio Systems Pty Ltd Web Address: savannah.com.au
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