What we source
Food Ingredients & Flavour Sourcing
Nine Sharks can assess ingredient and flavouring sourcing requirements and coordinate discussions with suitable manufacturers, producers or technical partners where appropriate.
Discuss Your Requirement
Requirement-led sourcing
A Sourcing Discussion Built Around the Information You Have.
This sourcing area concerns ingredients and flavouring requirements rather than in-house formulation manufacture. A brief may begin with an ingredient name, composition requirement, existing product, intended use, specification or commercial requirement. Nine Sharks can assess the available information and coordinate suitable sourcing discussions.
Examples
Types of Requirements We Can Assess.
The examples below describe requirement types rather than products guaranteed to be available.
Food ingredients and food-grade raw materials
Sweeteners, colours and extracts
Seasoning components and ingredient blends
Functional ingredients
Defined ingredient or flavouring requirements
Buyer input
Information That Helps Us Understand the Requirement.
- Ingredient, flavouring or product reference
- Intended use, composition or specification information
- Quantity, pack format and destination market
- Available manufacturer documentation and quality information
- Labelling, documentation or market-access considerations
- Whether the requirement relates to repeat supply, development or private-label work
How we assess it
From Requirement to Sourcing Discussion.
- 01
Clarify the ingredient or flavouring requirement and the available supporting information
- 02
Assess potential sourcing feasibility against the intended use, quantity and destination
- 03
Identify suitable manufacturers, producers or technical partners where appropriate
- 04
Progress commercial supply discussions only where a suitable route is identified
Important Requirement Note
Food and flavouring requirements are assessed against the specific product, intended use, destination market and documentation needs. Where regulatory or specialist technical assessment is required, appropriate manufacturer documentation and specialist input may be necessary before the requirement can progress. Nine Sharks does not provide legal or regulatory advice or operate a food-testing laboratory.
Have a requirement to discuss?
Start With the Information You Have.
Tell us what you need, the quantity, destination and any useful product or commercial detail. We will assess the requirement individually.