Sacco and Jebsen & Jessen Ingredients announce new distribution partnership

Jebsen & Jessen Ingredients to serve as exclusive Sacco distributor in Myanmar, Vietnam, Cambodia, Malaysia and the Philippines 

Sacco and Jebsen & Jessen Ingredients has sealed a new partnership that will see Sacco’s Dairy culture and probiotic dairy products distributed exclusively by Jebsen & Jesson Ingredients in Thailand, Myanmar, Indonesia, Cambodia, Malaysia, and the Philippines. 

Led by Luigi Rossi, dairy business unit export director at Sacco, and Marc Deschamps, regional managing director and CEO of Jebsen & Jessen Ingredients, the signing of the contract took place at the annual Food Ingredients Asia, in BITEC Bangna, Bangkok, Thailand on 12 September 2019. 

Rossi commented, “Jebsen & Jessen Ingredient’s deep expertise in specialty ingredients distribution and customer support is a perfect fit. We are excited to be expanding our involvement in South-east Asia through this new partnership to provide our customers better access to Sacco’s product lines.”

This partnership adds to the success of a previous agreement between Jebsen & Jessen Ingredients and Sacco in China. In South-east Asia, the new agreement will leverage the combined strength of Jebsen & Jessen Ingredients’ distribution service and Sacco’s product portfolio to bring products and solutions to the region’s growing yoghurt industry. 

“We are very happy to bring over 80 years of Sacco culture development in Europe to the region where we can use our strong distribution experience to help drive the regions yoghurt market,” Deschamps added.