In Illinois, Ingredion Incorporated will have a new CFO, Jim Gray, as of March 1st to replace outgoing CFO, Jack Fortnum, who is retiring after 33 years with Ingredion. Ingredion also spoke at the Consumer Analyst Group of New York (CAGNY) annual conference this week about their financial performance, strategy and outlook. They said that as a global ingredient provider they are now focusing not just on taste but texture as the new differentiator and latest global consumer trend. Ingredion converts grains, fruits and other plant materials into biomaterial ingredients for food, beverages, paper, personal care products and other items in a variety of industries and helps their customers replace synthetic ingredients with naturally-derived biomaterial ingredients.
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