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Industrieweg 26
Mierlo
5731 HR
Netherlands
+31 407800300
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The GNT Group is a family-owned company pioneering in the creation of specialized, future-proof products from only natural ingredients. It is internationally renowned for its EXBERRY® portfolio, the leading global brand in Coloring Foods. Founded in 1978, the company offers unparalleled agricultural competence combined with first-rate process-engineering expertise. GNT delivers a full range of color concentrates sourced exclusively from edible fruits, vegetable, and plants. Sustainability is a key priority for GNT and the company has set a series of ambitious targets for 2030 to optimize its environmental and social impacts. The company is headquartered in Mierlo, The Netherlands, and has global reach with customers in 75 countries and offices in North and South America, Asia, Europe and the Middle East.
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EXBERRY® is the global market leader in Coloring Foods – plant-based concentrates manufactured from edible fruit, vegetables, and plants using only gentle physical methods such as chopping, boiling, and filtering.
EXBERRY® is synonymous with high-performance color solutions based on the most natural concept of coloring food with food. The brand provides the widest range on the market, comprising more than 400 shades. It is suitable for practically all food and drink, including confectionery, dairy and bakery products, soft and alcoholic beverages, and savory applications. The concentrates are valued worldwide for their ease of use, brilliance, performance, and the complete vertical integration of the supply chain, which ensures full traceability, price, and stock stability.
GNT is committed to driving industry standards higher by ensuring EXBERRY® Coloring Foods deliver on cost-in-use, performance, naturalness, and sustainability. In applying EXBERRY® products, manufacturers are assured to receive highly professional support ranging from strategic product development to production integration and regulatory advice. EXBERRY® is the favored color solution used by more than 2,000 food and beverage companies including the leading food and beverage producers in the world.
FOOD INGREDIENTS NEWS
23 Apr 2024 --- GNT Group, supplier of plant-based Exberry colors for F&B, has identified “Regeneration Rising” as a key industry trend for 2024. The trend is marked by a renewed... Read More
FOOD INGREDIENTS NEWS
08 Apr 2024 --- Netherlands-headquartered GNT, which creates Exberry colors from non-GMO fruit, vegetables and plants, has published its latest sustainability report, revealing a 22% reduction in... Read More
FOOD INGREDIENTS NEWS
03 Apr 2024 --- There is an increasing demand for coloring food ingredients that offer clean label options across F&B applications. This is often accompanied by higher expectations for... Read More
FOOD INGREDIENTS NEWS
28 Feb 2024 --- GNT has unveiled a range of concentrates made from caramelized sugar syrup as natural substitutes to caramel (E150) color used in beverages. The colors — Exberry Shade Autumn... Read More
FOOD INGREDIENTS NEWS
01 Feb 2024 --- Israeli biotech firm Phytolon and Ginkgo Bioworks have used fermentation to formulate natural food colors encompassing the full-color palette of the yellow-to-purple spectrum. The... Read More
23 Apr 2024 --- In the second edition of its Color Futures publication to inspire F&B hues, the GNT Group identified “Regeneration Rising” as 2024’s headlining trend that takes three new color directions. Food Ingredients First sits down with Dieuwertje Raaijmakers, marketing communications specialist at GNT Group, to find out how global color trends have shifted over the past few years from a post-pandemic playfulness to real concern over the environment, spanning across generations.
31 Jan 2024 --- GNT was at the co-hosted ISM & ProSweets trade fairs in Cologne, Germany, showcasing its range of plant-based colors for confectionery and beyond. These were featured in brightly colored rolled ice cream with various toppings. Highlights included the newest Exberry shade Vivid Orange OS, launched end of last year. It is the first 100% oil-soluble natural coloring food made from paprika, which is ideal for chocolate or fat compounds.
08 Sep 2023 --- Virtual worlds are generating spooky Halloween NPD this year, appealing to digital natives with colors beyond the traditional orange and black. Natural colors supplier GNT unveils how plant-based colors are gaining traction with today’s social media-driven youth, including tech-savvy consumers in India and Nigeria. We sit down with Maartje Hendrickx, marketing director at GNT, who describes limited-edition trends to watch out for, emerging markets for natural colors and how the company is reducing its carbon footprint while providing bright colors from food crops.
26 Apr 2023 --- Departing from its annual “color of the year” tradition, Exberry by GNT showcased three color palettes tapping into Gen Z consumers, who live and breathe everything digital. The company interviewed online influencers and worked with a UK research agency to develop the color concepts. Maartje Hendrickx, market development manager at GNT, shares the findings compiled in Issue 1 of the Color Cookbook, a new guide to inspire food developers.
18 Oct 2022 --- At Drinktec 2022, GNT highlighted prebiotic innovations and the growing appetite for plant-based natural colors, including its latest yellow and green shades made from organic safflower and spirulina. Also, Gabriel Quarantelli, technical sales manager, talks about the growth opportunities in organic F&B.
27 Nov 2020 --- Royal DSM is bolstering its lactase portfolio with a new “one-stop-shop” enzyme for regular and organic lactose-free dairy products, while Beneo reveals its latest precooked functional native rice starch for enhancing clean label claims in foods. GNT predicts the color red will shake up the food and beverage industry in 2021, and ADM expects to see trending foods and beverages to feature bold citrus flavors and new exotic tastes with warm undertones next year.
28 Aug 2020 --- In this week’s NewsBite we recap some of the latest industry-related stories from the last few days. Highlights include NPD in natural pigments and significant investment in the insect protein space. Meanwhile, the start-up sphere is brimming with innovation surrounding mood-boosting plants, protein from rapeseed waste and a preservation solution made from silk – all targeting the aim of a stronger and more sustainable food system.
24 Sep 2018 --- Coloring foods supplier GNT continues to innovate within this space, with recent additions to the portfolio including solutions for savory foods. The company takes a “from farm to fork” approach for the complete vertical integration of the EXBERRY supply chain which guarantees best quality, year-round availability and stable prices which is key following a summer of drought in northern Europe. Robin Wyers speaks to Paul Collins, Director of International Sales and Marketing and Managing Director of GNT UK about the current business environment, trends opportunities, the drought impact and Brexit concerns.
