Merisant Company is an American manufacturer of zero/low-calorie
sugar substitutes. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of
MacAndrews & Forbes and is headquartered in
Chicago
(''City in a Garden''); I Will
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Illinois
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. Merisant markets brands in over 90 countries including
Equal
Equal(s) may refer to:
Mathematics
* Equality (mathematics).
* Equals sign (=), a mathematical symbol used to indicate equality.
Arts and entertainment
* ''Equals'' (film), a 2015 American science fiction film
* ''Equals'' (game), a board game
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and
Canderel
Canderel is a brand of artificial sweetener made mainly from aspartame. Canderel is marketed by The Merisant Company, a global corporation with headquarters in Chicago, Illinois, also Switzerland, MexicoUnited Kingdom and Australia.
Canderel ...
, as well as natural sweeteners
PureVia PureVia is a stevia-based low calorie sugar substitute developed jointly by PepsiCo and Whole Earth Sweetener Company which is a wholly owned subsidiary of artificial sweetener manufacturing company Merisant.
It is currently distributed and markete ...
and Whole Earth featuring
stevia
Stevia () is a natural sweetener and sugar substitute derived from the leaves of the plant species ''Stevia rebaudiana'', native to Paraguay and Brazil.
The active compounds are steviol glycosides (mainly stevioside and rebaudioside), which h ...
and
monkfruit extract. In 2021, Merisant was ranked 12th on the Top 50 Global Sweetener Companies list by FoodTalks.
The company was formed from
Monsanto Company
The Monsanto Company () was an American agrochemical and agricultural biotechnology corporation founded in 1901 and headquartered in Creve Coeur, Missouri. Monsanto's best known product is Roundup (herbicide), Roundup, a glyphosate-based herbic ...
's tabletop sweetener business, which was acquired by a group of investors in 2000. It was acquired by MacAndrews & Forbes in 2014.
In April 2014, Merisant made a distribution pact with Piramal Enterprises to distribute Equal in
India
India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...
.
In January 2019, Merisant launched Sugarly Sweet range of sweeteners exclusively for
Amazon
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* Amazons, a tribe of female warriors in Greek mythology
* Amazon rainforest, a rainforest covering most of the Amazon basin
* Amazon River, in South America
* Amazon (company), an American multinational technology c ...
as part of the Amazon Accelerator Program, bringing a new brand from development to launch in just 90 days.
In June 2020, Whole Earth Brands acquired Merisant from Flavor Holdings.
References
External links
Merisant websiteEqual websiteCanderel website
Whole Earth Sweetener Company website
Manufacturing companies based in Chicago
Companies established in 2000
Privately held companies based in Illinois
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