Carbery expands footprint in Asia

In Singapore, the company officially opened the Carbery Group Asia Business and Innovation Centre. This event also coincided with the Carbery team celebrating the tenth anniversary of the opening of their Synergy flavours manufacturing site in Thailand.
Carbery Group chair, Cormac O’Keeffe and chief executive, Jason Hawkins travelled to the region recently to mark the two important occasions and to celebrate with local teams in Thailand and Singapore.
Commenting, the CEO said: “Ten years ago we made an important strategic commitment to expanding our business and better serving our customers in Southeast Asia with the opening of our premises in Bangkok. The team and our business have gone from strength to strength in those 10 years and we are delighted to mark this occasion with the team. The decision to expand our footprint in the region with a business and innovation centre in Singapore is a natural extension of that success.” 
The Carbery chair outlined his excitement at the development: “Any expansion of our business is a good news day for Carbery and for our farmer shareholders. I want to thank them for their support as we continue to expand and diversify our business model and seek new customers in new markets. Asia is a key growth area on both the dairy and flavours sides of our business, and we look forward to the new opportunities our presence in Singapore will bring.”
Sebastiano Pagano, CEO of Synergy Europe and Asia, who along with Gordon Eng, head of Business Development & Strategy, Asia, will be based in the Singapore office. Sebastiano explained: “The objective of opening in Singapore is to fully take advantage of the strong, established and available ecosystems and networks to enable growth across the wider region. This in turn will allow Carbery Group to foster stronger collaboration with industry partners, start-ups, universities and research institutes, and with strategic key customers.”