Get to Know OV: The Ingredient Behind Every Great Creation

OV brings together specialist businesses, capabilities and expertise from across Europe, creating one Group with an extensive portfolio of sweet ingredients for bakery, ice cream, chocolate, confectionery, beverages and more.

And our reach goes beyond ingredients alone. Across our divisions, we work with customers in Ingredients, Foodservice & Wholesale, Retail, Private Label and Home Baking, bringing different routes to market together under one OV Group.

And ahead of Fi Europe, we thought it was a good time to properly introduce ourselves.

One Group. Many Specialisms.

Across OV, our businesses have spent decades building deep expertise in their individual areas.

Today, that knowledge comes together as one OV.

Our capabilities span everything from soft, hard and aerated caramel to chocolate coated ingredients, sugar confections, biscuit pieces, marshmallows, beverage solutions and specialist inclusions, including nuts and nut brittles.

Together, this gives our customers even more possibilities across flavour, texture, format and application.

It means we can look beyond a single ingredient or capability and instead explore how those different elements can work together.

From the Familiar to the Unexpected

Sometimes innovation starts with a classic.

A soft caramel. A crunchy nut brittle. A chocolate coated inclusion. A biscuit piece.

Other times, it starts somewhere much less expected.

A new flavour combination. A different texture. A trend moving from one category into another. Or an idea that needs expertise from several parts of OV to bring it to life.

That is where being part of a wider Group becomes particularly powerful.

Knowledge can move across categories, markets and sites. An idea seen in ice cream might inspire something for bakery. A flavour gaining momentum in beverages might open an opportunity in chocolate. A texture developed in one part of OV might find an entirely new application somewhere else.

More Than Ingredients

For us, being an ingredient partner is not simply about having a long product list.

It is about helping customers find the right solution.

That might mean selecting something from our existing portfolio, adapting an established product or working together to create something completely bespoke.

And increasingly, it also means bringing inspiration to the conversation.

Our teams are continuously looking at what is happening across flavours, textures, consumer behaviours and product launches, translating those signals into ideas that can be relevant for our customers.

Because knowing what is possible is important.

Knowing why it might matter next is even better.

Come and Get to Know OV

At Fi Europe this November, we will be bringing more of that OV world together.

You will be able to explore our capabilities, discover products from across the Group and see how we are translating some of the trends shaping sweet food and beverage into tangible concepts.

From caramel and chocolate coated ingredients to inclusions, decorations, nuts and nut brittles, biscuit pieces, marshmallows, beverage solutions and much more, it is an opportunity to discover just how broad the OV universe has become.

And this is only the beginning.

Over the coming months, we will be taking you behind the scenes of OV, introducing more of our businesses, people, expertise and capabilities and showing how they connect across the Group.

Because OV is not simply a collection of specialist businesses.

We are the ingredient behind every great creation.

Meet us at Fi Europe 2026

17–19 November 2026
Frankfurt, Germany
Stand 30C44

Come and get to know OV.