Joel Kibenge

Food Empire

SGX Mainboard-listed Food Empire Holdings is a a multinational food and beverage manufacturing and distribution group headquartered in Singapore. Food Empire's products are sold in over 60 countries, spanning North Asia, Eastern Europe, South-East Asia, Central Asia, the Middle East, and North America. The Group has 23 offices worldwide and operates 8 manufacturing facilities located in 5 countries. Food Empire's branded products include a wide variety of beverages and snack food, such as regular and flavoured coffee mixes and cappuccinos, chocolate drinks, flavoured fruit teas, bubble tea, instant cereal mixes and potato crisps. Its food ingredients business comprises of Freeze Dry instant coffee, Spray Dry instant coffee as well as non-dairy creamer. Food Empire owns a family of proprietary brands – including MacCoffee, Café PHO, Petrovskaya Sloboda, Klassno, Hillway and Kracks. MacCoffee – the Group's flagship brand – has been consistently ranked as the leading 3-in-1 instant coffee brand in the Group's core markets. The Group employs sophisticated brand building activities, localised to match the flavour of the local markets in which its products are sold. Since its public listing in 2000, Food Empire has won numerous accolades and awards including being recognised as one of the "Most Valuable Singapore Brands" by IE Singapore (now known as Enterprise Singapore), while MacCoffee has been ranked as one of "The Strongest Singapore Brands". Forbes Magazine has twice named Food Empire as one of the "Best under a Billion" companies in Asia and the company has also been awarded one of Asia's "Top Brand" by Influential Brands. Food Empire was presented with the Sustainability Award at the Securities Investors Association (Singapore) 20th Investors' Choice Award and also emerged as the winner of The Enterprise Award at the Singapore Business Awards 20/21.