Who we are

Aptunion Fruit Ingredients stands for quality, innovation, creativity and dynamism.

Kerry Aptunion, based in Apt - Provence, France, was founded in 1964 by a collective of family confectioners who specialised in the manufacture of candied fruit, in particular Glace Cherries.

Establishment of Kerry Ingredients France since 1996, Kerry Aptunion has risen to begin an industry leader in candied fruits and dried processed fruit inclusions.

The mission of Kerry Aptunion is to provide to our customers' products a real added value allowing them to be differentiated on the market, thanks to the use of our ingredients.

Kerry's ingredients represent an added value for our customers' products since they are innovative, with high quality and value for money, and they have competitive prices.

Innovation:

• It is the key success factor of the Kerry Aptunion strategy.
• Each year, numerous resources are invested in R&D in order to face to an evolving environment and to produce the best application solutions to our customers.
• Our dynamic and creative teams work directly with our customers, developing their ideas and creating exactly the right tailor made product concepts to meet their needs.

Quality:

• It is the main component to establish a sustainable realtionship/partnership between Kerry Aptunion and its customers.
• Since its creation, Kerry Aptunion is well known for its excellence in quality and service.
• Nowadays, due to its expertise and its skills, the Kerry fruit ingredients are considered as 'the reference' on the fruit processing market.
• Thanks to its CRM system and its organisation, Kerry Aptunion is able to offer the best efficiency, reactivity and respect of the deadline for each of its delivery.

Competitiveness:

• One of the competitive adavntages of Kerry Aptunion resides in the state of the art technologies and the patented process used in Apt factories.
• These technologies insure an excellent output and quality.

Due to its core values - creativity, innovation, quality and productivity - Kerry Aptunion is a global leading specialist in fruit ingredients for the bakery, confectionery, cereal, snacks, chilled dairy and ice-cream market sectors.