Ingå Group Acquire MSK Ingredients
Food Ingredients Specialists Add to Portfolio with Acquisition of Speciality Restaurant & Foodservice Suppliers
Ingå Group is proud to announce that it has acquired UK based speciality restaurant & foodservice supplier, MSK Ingredients.
Founded in 1998, MSK supplies speciality functional ingredients, technical support and, tools & equipment to professional chefs, restaurants, and foodservice across the UK & Europe, helping them create amazing dishes, with more precise control over flavour, colour, texture, and presentation.
Original owner, Kevin Bateman, is retiring after starting MSK in 1998, whilst Partner & Managing Director, Deborah Prynne, will continue to lead the business
“We are delighted to have found the right partners for this next exciting chapter of the business. We’re confident that we have found a long-term partner that shares our vision of growing MSK for the benefit of our customers and colleagues alike, while maintaining and strengthening the values that have built the business to the success that it is today."
Deborah Prynne
Partner & Managing Director
Strengthening the Ingå Group Ecosystem
This latest addition further strengthens the family of autonomous ingredients businesses across Europe joining UK based functional clean-label ingredient specialists, Ulrick + Short, France based speciality premium ingredients company, Louis François & Netherlands based ingredients distributor, Verdant Ingredients.
"We are very happy to welcome MSK as our latest family member & to support them on the journey ahead. It was clear from the start of the process that MSK was a remarkable, market leading, gem of a business with compatible values to our own.
We are looking forward to helping MSK create sustainable, long-term, value & growth helping the business achieve its potential for the benefit of existing and new customers. MSK is an important piece in the puzzle as we look ahead to further acquisitions.
The potential for future collaborations, along with the added experience and expertise, will allow us to even better access a broader customer base and product innovation within the ecosystem, ultimately creating better products for all users of food ingredients – from large scale food manufacturers to Michelin star chefs."
Adrian Short
CEO of Ingå Group
About MSK Ingredients
MSK offers creative ingredients and cutting-edge culinary tools and techniques that help chefs achieve better flavour, texture and presentation. Founded in 1998 and having built a reputation as the leading supplier of modernist ingredients in the UK, it now supplies a broad portfolio of over 2500 premium ingredients, tools and equipment to hospitality, catering, bars and restaurants across the UK, Europe and the rest of the world.
About Ingå
Ingå Group is a long-term investor and operating partner. Ingå’s mission statement to be the first-choice supplier of clean, simple and naturally sustainable food ingredient solutions for chefs, artisans and food manufacturers across Europe, North America and beyond, enabling consumers to eat great tasting food they can also feel good about.
This will be achieved through building & supporting an ecosystem of autonomous & market leading businesses for sustainable & long-term growth – truly investing in the future of food. To date, the Ingå Group is comprised of clean-label & functional ingredients specialists, Ulrick + Short, and French specialty premium ingredients company, Louis François & ingredients distributor, Verdant Ingredients.
The Ingå Group is in partnership with Novax, the investment company of the Stockholm-based, €15bn revenue Axel Johnson Group, founded in 1873 and owned & run by the 4th and 5th generation of the Swedish Johnson family.