Galactic Opens a New Subsidiary in Italy
14 Nov 2013 --- Galactic has announced the opening of its new sales office located in Milano, Italy: Galactic s.r.l. Owing to this expansion, Galactic will provide a more localised service to its Italian customers.
Galactic has had a presence in Italy for years through long-term relationships with end-users and strategic partners. Those partnerships will be strengthened and will be better supported thanks to the new commercial office located in Milano. On top of its traditional business in the Italian food industry, the Belgian company also sees a very important potential for industrial, cosmetic, and pharmaceutical applications.
“Galactic s.r.l. will service and reinforce Galactic’s existing Italian business and provide a foothold location for continued development throughout Southern Europe”, says Mónica Muñoz Mora, Sales Manager EMEA – Food, at Galactic. “As a world leader in the field, our intention is to keep expanding our horizons while maintaining close links with our clients on the ground.”
Galactic will be attending Food Ingredients Europe (FiE) on November 19-21 in Frankfurt, Germany (Booth 8J77). As the world's most important gathering of ingredient suppliers, distributors and buyers from the food & beverage industry, it will be an opportunity for the company to present their latest innovations and solutions to clients and prospects.
Since 1994 Galactic has become one of the world’s greatest leaders in biotechnology serving the food, feed, personal & health care, and industrial markets. Based on its valuable experience in the fermentation of lactic acid and other derivatives, Galactic continuously develops sustainable, innovative and health-friendly solutions in the field of food safety, nutrition and green chemistry. With headquarters and an innovation campus in Belgium, production facilities in the United States (Milwaukee), China (Bengbu) and Europe (Escanaffles), and sales offices in Belgium (Brussels), Italy (Milano), Japan (Tokyo) and Brazil (Curitiba), Galactic employs more than 350 people worldwide and is active in almost 65 countries.
