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Management’s Discussion and Analysis cont’dGROUP BUSINESS REVIEWSPECIALTY OILS AND FATS MANUFACTURING cont’dOn the operating structure, Loders Croklaan is organised into two main divisions, namely the snack ingredients and lipid nutritionand a small division called special products division that deal with food and animal feed ingredients such as collagen, soyaisolates, concentrates, feed enzymes and colors. A brief summary of the two main divisions are as follows:Snack IngredientsThe snack ingredients division is the principal business of Loders Croklaan, supplying fractionated oils, mainly coating fats, fillingfats or high stability oils to the processed food industry globally, principally for confectionery and bakery application. Currently,Loders Croklaan’s most important market is North Western Europe which is the world’s biggest consumer of specialty fats wherethe majority of sales of specialty fats are to chocolate manufacturers in the form of cocoa butter equivalents, cocoa butter replacersand cocoa butter substitutes. Loders Croklaan’s other markets include Eastern Europe, the United States, Canada, Central and LatinAmerica, Egypt, the Middle East countries, China, Japan, Korea, India and South East Asia. Loders Croklaan Asia, provides themuch needed competitive cost base, for entry into the rapidly expanding Asian specialty fats market.Since becoming a member of the <strong>IOI</strong> <strong>Group</strong>, Loders Croklaan has gradually moved away from non-palms products to focus onpalm-based materials to leverage on the <strong>Group</strong>’s palm oil supply chain. Wormerveer site of Loders Croklaan has moved awaycompletely from soy-based materials to concentrate fully on palm related products. As for the US operations, the advent of thetrans fatty acid issue provided an excellent opportunity for the <strong>Group</strong>’s palm-based operations to penetrate the US market andleverages on its technical expertise on palm attributes to introduce palm-based solution into the non-trans fatty acid applicationsmarket in USA.<strong>IOI</strong> Corporation BerhadANNUAL REPORT 2007 48

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