AarhusKarlshamn AB

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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

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

References

  1. ^ 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.