Present Day
Today, in conjunction with our distributors, Lionel Hitchen supplies Naturally Fabulous Flavour Ingredients to over 50 countries around the world.
Naturally Delicious: A Guide to Chocolate Trends 2025
Consumer demand for pleasurable, sustainable, and healthy chocolate is rapidly transforming the global confectionery market, with emerging chocolate trends playing a key role in this evolution. Boasting over $130 billion in sales in 2024, this market is projected to expand at a 5.2% CAGR through 2029 (GlobalData). This growth reflects a
Technical Information Officer
Role Profile and Person Specification Job title: Technical Information Officer Reports to: Technical Services Manager Job grade: B Job Purpose The successful candidate will: • Continual improvement and management of internal processes, procedures and formulations on the Company systems to ensure LH products can be manufactured to meet specification, product safety, legality & quality •
Business expands to Vietnam
Dating as far back as 1840 Behn Meyer has evolved into a specialty supplier for a wide variety of industries. Their history is one of persistence, partnership, and innovation with a continued focus on building lasting relationships with their customers and suppliers.
Business expands to Malaysia
Headquartered in Malaysia, with over 20 years of experience and operations in 7 Southeast Asian countries, ITS Nutriscience is a leading distributor specialising in providing specialty food and nutraceutical ingredient solutions for the food, beverage and healthcare industries.
The colours of autumn flavours
It's time to say welcome to autumn! Where the season of colour, nostalgia, comfort food and autumn flavours begin. Familiar and comforting tastes remain extremely popular, and brands are developing products to meet consumer demand for nostalgia, indulgence, excitement and innovation. The autumn palette is warm, rich, earthy and golden. It extends from the red
Lionel Hitchen wins the Central South Business Award 2022 for “International Business of the Year”
The award acknowledges that Lionel Hitchen is a growing international business, with the majority of our sales going to markets outside the UK. In addition, Lionel Hitchen was awarded the highly commended award for 'Employer of the Year'. This recognition is a testament to our company culture, our WCM programme, our employee benefits package, and
Lionel Hitchen wins the ‘Business Culture’ award at The Solent 250
Lionel Hitchen is named the winner of 'Business Culture 2022' category, at The Solent 250 awards night.
Ukraine-Russia Crisis Update
As a result of the horrific events unfolding in Ukraine and the needless suffering of the Ukrainian people, Lionel Hitchen has taken the decision to suspend all commercial activities with Russia. We can reassure our customers that the business is taking every reasonable step to maintain continuity of supply to our customers given the
