The Wild Group, the world’s leading suppliers of natural ingredients to the food and beverage industry and globally the largest privately owned flavour ingredient company, is modifying its concepts to introduce products that help defeat civilisation diseases such as diabetes.

A health product it has developed is New Sweet Up that sweetens food and beverages with a sugar-like taste, but much lower calories, a Wild Group spokesman says.
“Sweet Up contains a combination of several sweeteners and Wild Resolver Technology to round off the taste. Wild Resolver gives the product a full-bodied character and suppresses the perception of disagreeable off-notes that frequently occur with sweeteners.”
The group has developed other products with low-calories levels such as Near Water and products that offer calorie-reduced sweetener options, which taste similar to sweetening with sugar.
“Wild’s expertise in the food sector combines the knowledge of key components and technologically mature production processes with the knowledge of comsumer markets and marketing trends,” the spokesman says.
“Wild uses the most modern technologies in manufacturing ingredients for FTNF (from the named fruit) products, colour extracts and multiple technology system (MTS) flavours.
Wild Flavours, Berlin, formerly Dr Scholvien Gmbh & Co KG, joined the Wild Group in 1985. The company was founded in 1902 and is one of Germany’s oldest essence producers. The product portfolio includes FTNF extracts and flavours; plant, herb and root extracts; colour extracts and compounds; citrus essences; natural, nature-identical, artificial flavours available as a liquid or powder and aseptic or deep-frozen fruit purees.
Wild Flavours Inc in Cincinnati supplies the North American food and beverage industries with flavours, flavour systems, functional flavours, reaction flavours, compounds for beverages, distillates and natural colours.
Wild Cincinnati also specialises in supplying the food service industry.
The group offers the snack industry flavours, seasonings and spice additives and natural colours. Wild has special expertise with ingredients for low-fat products made from grain, rice and potatoes.
Also, Wild’s expertise as a fruit processing company is reflected in the Wild range of products for the bakery and confectionery industries. It attracts customers from the dairy and ice cream industry with fruit-based developments for cream-type concepts including fruit preparations, flavours and natural colours for dairy products, desserts and ice.
The product range for non-alcoholic beverages encompasses flavours, compounds, concentrates and natural colours and sweetening systems.
The group’s ingredients business is its focal point and one of three pillars of the business, the second being the Indag-Wild process technology. The third pillar is the production and distribution of the brands Capri-Sun, Libella and Soy & Joy.
“Indag-Wild Process Technology is the Wild Group’s engineering centre, offering the most modern process technologies to the food and beverage industry,” says Dr Hans-Peter Wild, chairman and CEO of the Wild Group.
“The combination of our three core businesses makes Wild the leading partner in the food industry for all matters of food production and marketing.”
The Indag-Wild process technology’s ultra-modern systems for the food industry as well as its high-efficiency filling and packaging systems for Capri-Sun provide testament to Wild as one of the leading companies in the food and beverage industry, says the group spokesman.
“With experience in systems and machine design, the Indag-Wild process technology offers Wild employees and customers numerous synergetic results.
“Thus the routine internal transfer of knowledge ensures that Wild product developers know the options for the latest processing technologies and its engineers know the properties of food including the contents.”
About the third pillar (production and distribution of Capri-Sun, Libella and Soy & Joy), the spokesman observes: “The wild employees understand about the international food markets through the marketing of these brands.
“For instance, Capri-Sun is being consumed in more than 100 countries around the world. The knowledge of international food and beverage markets and specific consumer needs are reflected in current product developments.”
Children around the world know Capri-Sun, which is sold and enjoyed in more than 100 countries. In 1969, Deutschee SiSi-Werke, a company within the Wild Group, introduced Capri Sun to Germany with its distinctive stand-up pouch.
 “Wild is a trendsetter in the industry as well as an international leader in wellness and functional drinks,” the spokesman says.
The Wild Group had its origins more than 70 years ago when Rudolf Wild founded the Wild Company in Heidelberg, Germany.
Over the years, the group has fulfilled his vision to produce non-alcoholic beverages exclusively from natural ingredients, and in the process has set unmatched standards of quality.
The group is globally active, represented in more than 70 countries and has 14 production facilities worldwide.