Inside Ingredient Solutions
Ian Galletly, Ingredient Solutions’ Managing Director, was a director, shareholder and member of the team that built Dairyborn Foods Ltd in the UK, selling to Golden Vale for £10 million in February 1999.
Ingredient Solutions, set up in 2000, provides innovative cheese ingredients & products across many sectors of the food industry. They have an extensive customer base including two of the wold’s largest global franchise chains and hundreds of ready meal, fast food and food on the go outlets. Products using their cheese are on virtually every supermarket shelf in the United Kingdom and Ireland; in a fast food outlet in every major town and city throughout Europe; at 30,000 feet and upwards on several major international airlines; on cruise liners, trains, sandwich bars, pubs, hotels, restaurants, schools and delivered in ‘meals on wheels’ format to tens of thousands of homes. Their cheese goes into hundreds of everyday products that are eaten by tens of thousands of consumers every week.
The business is growing fast. Turnover has doubled in the past five years and projected to continue at a similar rate of growth in future.
Since May 2022 the company was taken over by private cheese dairy Rupp, the largest family-owned company in the Austrian dairy industry, founded in 1908. Rupp produces processed and natural specialty cheeses under the Rupp and Alma brands at four locations in Europe and Asia.
Cheese Ingredient Buyers Satisfaction Survey – Insight

97% of Our Customers are Satisfied or very satisfied

other suppliers are
Satisfied or very satisfied
Most buyers are reasonably satisfied with their cheese ingredients supplier. However some are more satisfied still.
Some 97% of OUR customers are satisfied or very satisfied with Ingredient Solutions as their supplier. That’s some 9% ahead of our competitors, which is pretty satisfying in itself.
We will be working in 2023 – 2024 to keep improving
Q3 2023 Market Report

We are officially at the halfway point of the year and H1 2023 has brought some relative calm after the countless storms we had to navigate over the last few years. Prices had started to drop at the back end of 2022 and this sharp drop continued well into Q1 2023.