Tate & Lyle opens new Global Shared Services Centre in Łódź, Poland

20 Oct 2011

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Łódź, Poland (20 October 2011) – Tate & Lyle today opened its new Global Shared Services Centre in Łódź, Poland. The Centre, which is located at the Sterlinga Business Centre, will provide efficient, effective and scalable business support services to Tate & Lyle’s global businesses, and will be Tate & Lyle’s principal location for providing shared services globally.

The new Centre, which is part of a major programme launched by Tate & Lyle in January 2011 to significantly enhance its operational capabilities, will provide transactional and standard processes in finance, payroll services and an IT service desk. These services will migrate to the Centre in a phased process over the next 15 months.

Tate & Lyle currently employs 70 people at the Centre. By the time it is fully operational at the end of 2012, it will employ over 160 staff with multilingual capabilities supporting Tate & Lyle’s global business.

Javed Ahmed, Chief Executive, Tate & Lyle, said: “This is an exciting day for Tate & Lyle. Through the use of state-of-the-art technology, the new Centre will enable us to deliver high quality information to all our operations across the world, and to achieve significant efficiencies and economies of scale. The Centre represents a key investment in the long-term future of Tate & Lyle.”

Tim Lodge, Chief Financial Officer, Tate & Lyle, commented: “We are delighted to be investing in Lodz. With its highly skilled workforce, modern office facilities, and investments in infrastructure, Lodz is the ideal location for our new Global Shared Services Centre."

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Supported by our 165-year history of ingredient innovation, we partner with customers to provide consumers with healthier and tastier choices when they eat and drink. We are proud that millions of people around the world consume products containing our ingredients and solutions every day.

Through our leading expertise in sweetening, mouthfeel and fortiﬁcation, we develop ingredients and solutions which reduce sugar, calories and fat, add ﬁbre and protein, and provide texture and stability to food and drink in categories including beverages, dairy, bakery, snacks, soups, sauces, and dressings.

Tate & Lyle recently acquired CP Kelco, a leading provider of pectin, speciality gums and other nature-based ingredients to create a leader in mouthfeel, significantly enhancing our solutions capabilities. Following this combination, we now have more than 5,000 employees working in around 75 locations in 39 countries, serving customers in more than 120 countries. Science, Solutions, Society is our brand promise and how we will achieve our purpose of Transforming Lives through the Science of Food. By living our purpose, we believe we can successfully grow our business and have a positive impact on society. We live our purpose in three ways, by supporting healthy living, building thriving communities and caring for our planet.

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