Recently, Bell Flavors & Fragrances EMEA officially opened its new culinary centre and office space in Ketton, Stamford. With the new location, the flavour house strengthens its culinary capabilities and regional reach within the UK market and sets a strong focus on speed to market and customer-centric culinary innovations tailored for the needs of UK customers. The new culinary centre and office enables Bell to meet the growing demand from customers within the UK market.
“The new culinary centre incorporates a state-of-the-art test kitchen, meeting space and office facilities”, explained Oliver Saalmann, Vice President Flavours Division. “With a strong focus on the UK market, this new facility strengthens not only our regional presence – customers will benefit from a faster access to innovative culinary solutions and service. It will allow us to accelerate market oriented product developments together with our customers, explore and develop new concepts and product solutions, host tasting and innovation sessions and increase our expertise in the culinary sector, while keeping track of regional legal implications”.
Complementing Bell’s headquarters in Leipzig/Germany, the new facility is designed to encourage creativity, target culinary innovation and focus on regional product needs. The space also comprises flavour application capabilities in savoury, sweet, dairy and the beverage segments.