Foods, cosmetics, pharmaceutics
Export opportunities for natural ingredients
For many years, the demand for natural ingredients has been steadily growing on the European market – and this trend is also set to continue into the future. Organic foods have long since ceased to be niche products and have now captured the mass market. In addition, smart-thinking companies in the food industry are increasingly replacing artificial additives with natural ingredients.
But it is not only in the food sector that there is a need for natural ingredients: Many companies in the pharmaceutics and cosmetics industries are also on the lookout for more and more new suppliers of natural ingredients.
So, if you are a supplier of natural ingredients for foods, cosmetics and pharmaceutics, and if you also have organic, ISO standards, HACCP, IFS, BRC or Fairtrade certification, then IPD can assist you in entering the European market.
For European companies, corporate social responsibility and/or sustainability in global supply chains have an increasingly central role to play in addition to certification. In this aspect too, IPD will support you with the appropriate training.
Natural ingredients that are particularly sought after in Europe
- Essential oils: geranium, lemongrass, rosemary, lavender, tea tree, bergamot, buchu, palo santo, eucalyptus, cinnamon leaf, helicrysum
- Plant extracts: vanilla, cinnamon, jagua, dragon´s blood, maca, camu camu
- Vegetable oils & butter: coconut oil, shea butter, virgin avocado oil, macadamia oil, argan oil, prickly pear seed oil
- Beans & pulses: green mung beans, black speckled beans, kidney beans, red-speckled beans, chickpeas
- Coffee and cocoa: Robusta and Arabica green coffee as well as cacao mass, cacao butter, cacao nibs, cacao powder
- Coconut derivatives: e.g. coconut chips, coconut milk, coconut oil, coconut cream
- Herbs & spices: ginger, turmeric, moringa, cloves, cinnamon, vanilla, chilli, coriander, fennel, nutmeg, saffron, lemongrass, anise
- Natural powders & flours: cassava flour, Coconut flour, yacon flour, banana flour, plantain flour als well as turmeric powder, ginger powder
- Seeds & grains: quinoa, amaranth, chia, sesame, alfalfa
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We are always looking for exciting products. This also applies to products that we do not have on the list yet.
- Sweeteners: coconut sugar, date syrup, panela, coconut blossom sugar, palm sugar, honey
- Nuts: peanuts, cashew, macadamia, brazil nut
- Tea: black and green tea, rooibos, honeybush, guayusa
- Processed fruit & vegetables: e.g. (sun-)dried, freeze-dried, deep-frozen/individual quick frozen (IQF), pulps, purees, juices, concentrates, preserves
- Additives: colorants, thickeners, stabilizers
- Snacks & ready-to eat products: e.g. plantain and banana chips
Tailor-made matchmaking
We network you with European importers at these trade fairs
Anuga
Food & beverage
With more than 70,000 visitors from 169 countries and more than 4,600 exhibitors from 98 nations, Anuga is the world's leading trade fair for food and beverages.
Biofach
Organic products
BIOFACH is the world's leading trade fair for organic food. Its combination with the organic cosmetics trade fair VIVANESS provides excellent networking opportunities.
Fi Europe
Food ingredients
Fi Europe is the world’s largest gathering of F&B ingredient buyers and suppliers. Over 1,200 exhibitors from 135 countries are expected to attend the event in 2022.
in-cosmetics
Personal care
In-cosmetics global welcomes 95% of the world's top suppliers of personal care ingredients – an excellent opportunity to discover the latest trends and solutions.
SIAL
Food business
SIAL is the biggest one-stop shop in the food industry. Every two years, producers, importers and retailers from all around the world meet in Paris for five days of inspiration and exchange.
Our partner countries for natural ingredients
The European market is waiting for your products
The demand in Europe for natural ingredients is higher than ever before. Consumers pay increasing attention to products whose ingredients are the most natural. Therefore, we are looking for suppliers of high-quality ingredients in the partner countries listed here.
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