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AAK is a Swedish-Danish company and producer of value-adding vegetable oils and fats.[2] The company's products and solutions are used in a wide variety of applications in the food, confectionery, pharmaceutical, cosmetic, chemical and animal feed industries. [2]
- Major shareholders, 2017 report, p.40
- Subsidiaries, p.73
Business Segments
Annual Report: https://aak.com/media/press-releases/2018/aaks-annual-report-2017-has-been-published/ >> http://mb.cision.com/Main/871/2509266/832545.pdf, p.6 >
- 68% Food Ingredients: offers solutions to the bakery, dairy, foodservice and special nutrition industries. The latter includes solutions within infant, senior and medical nutrition.
- 19% Chocolate & Confectionery Fats: offers functional cocoa butter alternatives for chocolate, compounds for coating and molding, and speciality fats for confectionery fillings.
- 13% Technical Products & Feed: offers fatty acids and glycerine for various applications, and proteins and fats for animal feed.
Palm Oil
https://aak.com/sustainable-growth/, + Report, p.10
- Shea, https://aak.com/sustainable-growth/responsible-sourcing/responsible-sourcing-of-shea/
- Palm, https://aak.com/sustainable-growth/responsible-sourcing/responsible-sourcing-of-palm/
- Coconut, https://aak.com/sustainable-growth/responsible-sourcing/responsible-sourcing-of-coconut/
Regulatory measures pose a risk. Active involvement in Corporate Social Responsibility-related issues is, therefore, becoming increasingly important to forestall legislation on issues that are a natural development of human requirements. p.25
Board member of the RSPO
- Sourced palm oil from 18/25 dirty producer groups in 2016/17[1], p.28
- Brands that purchase palm oil from AAK: Kraft Heinz, Johnson & Johnson, Unilever, Reckitt Benckiser, L'Oreal, PZ Cussons, Pepsico, Nestle, Mondelez, Mars, Kellogg's, Proctor & Gamble, Hershey, General Mills, Fererro, Colgate-Palmolive. GP report, p.32, 38, 46, 52, 58, 64, 68, 76,
References
- ^ The Final Countdown: Now or never to reform the palm oil industry. A Greenpeace investigation has exposed how the world’s biggest brands are still linked to rainforest destruction in Indonesia. Greenpeace International, Sept.19.2018.