Olam food ingredients (“ofi”) completes acquisition of Club Coffee L.P.

26-Jul-2022 - ofi, a global leader in naturally good food & beverage ingredients, is pleased to announce that the acquisition of Club Coffee L.P. (“Club Coffee"), previously announced on 26 April 2022, was successfully completed. Club Coffee is one of Canada’s largest coffee roasters and packaging solutions ...

Olam Food Ingredients to acquire Olde Thompson, a leading US private label spices and seasonings manufacturer

Olam Food Ingredients accelerates its growth strategy with a transformative US acquisition

03-May-2021 - Olam Food Ingredients (“OFI”)1is acquiring a leading US private label spices and seasonings manufacturer Olde Thompson at an EV of US$950 million through its wholly owned subsidiary Olam Holdings Inc. This acquisition reinforces OFI’s growth strategy of being a global leader in providing ...

Olam Food Ingredients heats up Spices portfolio with US$108.5 million acquisition of a leading US chilepepper business

Acquisition is on-trend to support rising consumer demand for Mexican flavors

22-Dec-2020 - Olam Food Ingredients (“OFI”), the new operating group created after the reorganization within Olam International Limited (“OIL”) earlier this year, is expanding its Spices portfolio (“Olam Spices”) to meet the rising demand for bold, authentic flavors with the acquisition of one of the world’s ...

Olam joins forces with roasters to protect Brazil’s coffee farmers during COVID-19

Over 5,000 Brazilians have received hygiene supplies to keep them safe during the busy coffee harvest season

16-Sep-2020 - When COVID-19 reached Brazil ahead of the coffee harvest season, the first thoughts of smallholder Ivone Corsi da Silva were of how she could keep supporting her family, including her pregnant daughter and several other children with pre-existing health problems, without putting them at ...

Sustainable cashew

Working with farmers the co-operative way

07-Jul-2020 - On this year’s International Day of Cooperatives, Mallikarjuna Kumaraswamy, Vice President for OIam’s cashew business explains 3 ways the cooperative model is helping reimagine sustainable cashew supply chains. We source much of our cashew from 100 partner co-ops across rural Africa and Asia, ...

Working together to put children first in Côte d’Ivoire

Funding the Child Learning and Educational Facility (CLEF)

04-May-2020 - Despite significant progress, child labour still occurs in the cocoa supply chain, often as a result of social and economic challenges like migration, poverty or lack of infrastructure. If there is no school nearby or parents cannot afford school fees, children can be kept at home to work on ...

Olam Cocoa introduces the first professionalised child labour monitoring and remediation to Cameroon

09-Mar-2020 - Child labour monitoring and remediation is set to be rolled out across Cameroon in the first programme of its kind by a cocoa company. The move forms part of Olam Cocoa’s global commitment to put children first by tackling child labour and helping more children attend school across its entire ...

World’s first sustainable rice partnership in the running for MacArthur Foundation US$100 million grant

27-Feb-2020 - The Sustainable Rice Platform (SRP) - of which Olam International is a founding member - has been shortlisted for a US$100 million grant from the MacArthur Foundationi, for improving the livelihoods of 500,000 rice farmers while reducing environmental impacts. There is a paradox where rice is ...

A sweeter brew for all

22-Jan-2020 - “Complex, juicy, with citrus and sweet notes of peach”, the distinct flavour of Diofanor’s ‘black honey’ coffee flows directly from a level of craftsmanship beyond the norm; a far cry from the seasonal spiced concoctions that trend in the UK. As you walk around Finca La Divisa, nestled in the ...

Olam International expands almond ingredients capacity

Aquisition of leading Californian almond processor and ingredient manufacturer Hughson Nut

23-Oct-2019 - Global food and agri-business Olam International Limited (Olam), today announced that it has signed a purchase agreement to acquire a 100% interest in leading Californian almond processor and ingredient manufacturer Hughson Nut Inc (HNI) and associated real estate assets from APB Partners, LLC ...