Domino Foods, Inc., Iselin, NJ, has entered a collaborative agreement with WILD Flavors GmbH and Sunwin International to offer all-natural sweetener products, such as cane sugar, rice, malt and stevia, in addition to sweetening systems that can include both natural and artificial sweeteners plus sophisticated flavor modifiers.

Domino Sugar and its affiliates produce and market sugar and other sweetener products through technical, engineering and manufacturing knowledge. In addition to refined cane sugar products, Domino Sugar provides brown rice syrup, evaporated cane juice, fondants, honey, invert sugar, malt, molasses, as well as flavor and texture modifiers.

“With our strength and breadth in natural sweeteners, we are very excited about the opportunity to create new blends and offer the healthy benefits of stevia to consumers,” said Brian O’Malley, president and CEO of Domino Sugar. “As we continue to focus on our customers’ demands to provide competitive and natural solutions for their sweetener solutions, Sunwin International and WILD Flavors are the perfect partners and leaders in the stevia industry, as well as innovators in the use of stevia with other ingredients to create great tasting food and beverages.”

WILD Flavors provides natural flavor and ingredient systems as well as individual components, including: natural flavors, extracts, natural colors, concentrates, sweetening systems, specialty ingredients and seasonings for the food and beverage industry.

Sunwin International Neutraceuticals, is a global supplier of stevia committed to sustainable production. WILD has aligned itself as a strategic stakeholder with Sunwin to allow for the consistent supply of Sunwin Stevia, world-class quality and production capabilities that allow for the utilization of specific taste modification technologies in the creation of high-purity products.

“With Domino Foods and its affiliates as suppliers of sugar and sweetening systems, WILD, Domino and Sunwin will benefit from the systems approach to drive the growth of the stevia market meeting the consumers’ growing interest for calorie reduction and ‘naturalness,’” said Michael Ponder, global CEO of WILD Flavors GmbH. “WILD has invested substantial time and technical efforts for several years to develop proprietary taste modification technologies for stevia, sugar and artificial sweeteners, and looks forward to working with Domino and Sunwin for mutual worldwide opportunities for our companies and customers.”

Laiwang Zhang, chairman of Sunwin International said: “Through quality, innovation and teamwork, our three companies will create great tasting, all-natural, sweetener solutions for consumer product companies who are focused on satisfying the latest consumer trends. We are excited about the future opportunities we will encounter together.”