Climate pressure, supply chain disruption and economic uncertainty have become fixtures of the food manufacturing landscape rather than passing conditions. Bunge, a global agribusiness and food ingredient company, has built its response around three pillars: a global sourcing network, regenerative agriculture, and traceable, responsible supply chains. Ahead of Gulfood Manufacturing, drawing on perspectives from its commercial leadership team, including Katherine Huang, Senior Director Food Solutions Commercial Asia; Bunge shares how it is helping customers secure reliable access to high-quality ingredients and where the market is heading next.
Securing Supply Without Losing Sight Of Cost
Bunge is focused on helping customers secure reliable access to high quality ingredients, addressing current industry pressures through its global sourcing network, regenerative agriculture initiatives, and commitment to traceable, responsible supply chains. Beyond supply security, the company works closely with customers to simplify formulation challenges and improve cost efficiency through innovative ingredient solutions.
Affordable Indulgence: Taste And Cost Working Together
A key example of that approach is Bunge’s Affordable Indulgence portfolio, designed to help manufacturers deliver great taste and premium consumer experiences while optimizing costs and improving operational efficiency.
The portfolio includes CBT Gold®, an award-winning confectionery fat that delivers a real chocolate-like taste experience while enabling significant cocoa cost savings and production efficiencies of up to one hour per 300kg batch. Karibon® and Coberine®, Bunge’s cocoa butter equivalent solutions, provide reliable and cost-effective alternatives with performance and sensory characteristics comparable to cocoa butter, helping customers manage cocoa butter raw material volatility and supply challenges while maintaining product quality.
Complementing these, the Prestine Smart Range® enables indulgent fillings with excellent stability and shelf life, supporting both product quality and manufacturing efficiency for bakery manufacturers. FlexiBetter®, meanwhile, offers a dairy butter-equivalent solution with similar sensory performance, improved sustainability credentials, and a significantly lower carbon footprint compared to dairy butter.
What Bunge Is Bringing To Gulfood Manufacturing
As Bunge looks ahead to Gulfood Manufacturing, the company is preparing to showcase how innovation can help manufacturers navigate market volatility while meeting growing consumer demand for sustainable, high-performing products. The event offers a platform to collaborate with partners across the MEA & Türkiye region and explore solutions that strengthen both the resilience and competitiveness of food manufacturers.
Three Trends Shaping The Market
Looking across the market, three trends stand out to Bunge: the growing importance of sustainability, the need for affordable indulgence solutions that maintain consumer-preferred taste and quality, and the increasing demand for secure and resilient supply chains. The company sees these priorities as deeply connected. Through its Affordable Indulgence portfolio, manufacturers can continue to deliver the sensory experiences consumers expect while addressing cost pressures, improving operational performance, advancing sustainability goals, and building more resilient product supply chains.
“Together, we’re creating smarter, more sustainable ingredient solutions for the future of food manufacturing.”
For further information, visit www.bunge.com and visit Bunge at Hall 7, Stand B7-18.
