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IFF seems to be moving forward quickly with its strategy to trim its size to both cut expenses and better serve customers. This is the second major sale the ingredients mega-company has announced in the past two months.“We’re going to continue to evaluate our portfolio as we go forward to make sure we have the right portfolio for our customers, but also making sure it aligns and helps us to focus on deleveraging our balance sheet,” Clyburn told analysts Thursday afternoon at the Consumer Analyst Group of New York conference in Florida.Exponent is a U.K.-based private equity firm that describes itself as an investor looking for unique opportunities to help companies transform to reach a fuller potentiron bisglycinate 325 mgial. It was established in 2004 and has portfolio companies across a wide spectrum of functions, from theater operators to sightseeing bus tours to elemagnesium glycinate vs zinc glycinatectrical engineering. In the food space, Exponent’s best-known investment is fermented meat analog maker Quorn, which it purchased in 2011 for 205 million pounds ($328 million at the time). Exponent sold Quorn in 2015 to its current owner, Monde Nissin, for 550 milzinc gluconate 60mllion pounds ($825 million at the time).In a statement, Exponent partner Mark Taylor said that the Fragrance Specialty Ingredients business’s differentiated pferrous gluconate 5 grortfolio attracted their attention.“This strong market position is founded on deep technical expertise and a reputation for supplying products of the highest quality,” Taylor said. “With further investment and support as an independent business, we see a significant opportunity to accelerate FSI’s growth.”While this division does a lot of business, it’s small when compared to the larger IFF. The company has about 24,000 emplencapsulations magnesium glycinateoyees worldwide, and more than 340 sites at which it does work, according to IFF’s Investor Day presentation in December. While the FSI division has more than 970 customers, IFF as a whole has 50,000 customers.This divestment, like that of the Savory Solutions Group, will help IFF reduce its debt. These moves, in conjunction with other structural changes, are intended to get IFF on a more solid financial footing for growth. With its new private equity ownership, FSI will get to be considered a large business and can focus on its own growth opportunities.— Christopher Doering contributed to this report.