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Introducing Yume(TM): A new standard for sweetness. Manus and Tate & Lyle launch a new, category-defining sweetener brand. Because nature holds great taste(tm). London, U.K., and Boston, US. - WEBWIRE - Monday, February 23, 2026 Tate & Lyle PLC (Tate & Lyle), a global leader in ingredient solutions for healthier food and beverages, and Manus, the leading bioalternatives scale-up platform, announced the launch of Yume(TM), a new brand under The Sweetener Alliance. Yume, from the Japanese word for "dream," is set to redefine sweetness by harnessing the power of science and nature. The strategic partnership, announced a year ago, aims to expand access to innovative sugar-reduction solutions. The first ingredient under the new brand is Yume(TM) M Stevia Sweetener, a premium all-Americas stevia-derived sweetener with great sugar-like taste. Developed and scaled by Manus, Yume(TM) M Stevia is produced at Manus' BioFacility in Augusta, Georgia, the only large-scale stevia bioconversion site in the U.S. Yume(TM) M leverages Manus' comprehensive all-Americas supply chain, ensuring end-to-end traceability, strengthening supply security for customers, and supporting future stevia innovation. Said Nick Hampton, CEO, Tate & Lyle: "The Sweetener Alliance, our strategic partnership with Manus launched a year ago, is a clear example of Tate & Lyle's science driven, solutions-focused approach at work. Our partnership accelerates the growth of ingredients that meet society's evolving nutrition needs and industry's growing need for security of supply. Yume(TM) M Stevia - our all-Americas stevia Reb M - gives our customers expanded access to innovative, cost-competitive sugar-reduction solutions." "Yume(TM) brings together nature's promise and Manus' biomanufacturing capability to deliver a new standard in sweetness," said Ajikumar "Aji" Parayil, Founder and CEO of Manus. "With Yume(TM) sweeteners, we are translating next-generation industrial biotechnology and bioalternatives into commercially scalable sweetener solutions. Partnering with Tate & Lyle helps us accelerate global adoption by combining Manus' bioalternative products, scale-up platform, and supply-chain traceability with Tate & Lyle's formulation expertise and market access. Together, we are bringing cost-competitive, scalable products to consumer brands looking to reduce sugar without compromising taste." Designed for taste, built for scale Yume(TM) introduces a premium brand expression for next-generation sweetness - bold on taste, grounded in science, and created to feel approachable, not technical. "With Yume(TM), we set out to create a new kind of sweetener brand for the category - one that feels optimistic, modern, and grounded in science," said Frederik Bjoerndal, Senior Vice President of Corporate Affairs and Marketing at Manus. "Yume(TM) reflects a deep respect for nature, enabled by advanced biotechnology and uniquely managed supply chains. It's designed for the people who create products for a living - giving them confidence in taste, performance, and reliability, while pointing to a more hopeful, better-for-you future." "Yume(TM) will help brands reduce sugar while elevating flavour - today and into the future. Yume(TM) M Stevia unlocks the sweetest parts of stevia leaves through science and innovation. The brand is a celebration of taste, optimism, and progress - translating advanced science into products that are effortlessly enjoyable, joyful, and ready for real-world scale," said Abigail Storms, Vice President Global Platform, Sweeteners and Fibers at Tate & Lyle. Yume(TM) is rooted in nature - because nature holds great taste - and engineered for the realities of modern food production. At launch, Yume(TM) M Stevia Sweetener delivers a premium Reb M experience designed to meet rising demand for better-for-you products without sacrificing taste. Crafted for sugar-like sweetness and reliable performance, Yume(TM) M Stevia gives brands a scalable, dependable solution as stevia adoption continues to accelerate across food and beverage categories. The result is sweetness without compromise - exceptional taste, consistent performance, and the confidence to scale. For more information about Yume(TM) and Yume(TM) M Stevia Sweetener, please visit www.sweetyume.com. ENDS For media enquiries, contact: Tate & Lyle Anna Taylor-Elphick, Senior Manager, Global Corporate PR [email protected], +44(0) 7766 361515 Manus Frederik Bjoerndal, Senior Vice President, Corporate Affairs and Marketing [email protected], +1 646 671 3897 Notes to editor: * The primary pronunciation is you-me /ju[[ː]] meɪ/, similar to how "yume" might sound in Japanese with a slight elongation. * The product was previously marketed as All-Americas Stevia Reb M or NutraSweetM Natural(R). * YUME(TM) and MADE BY MANUS(TM) are trademarks owned by Manus Bio Inc. 2026 (C) Manus Bio Inc. and Tate & Lyle About Manus Manus is the world's leading bioalternatives scale-up platform. We work with companies across industries and value chains to accelerate the transition to BioAlternatives - better performing and more sustainable versions of complex molecules traditionally sourced from plants, animals, or fossil fuels. Our platform is proven to work across scales, bridging the Valley of Death between lab and manufacturing more efficiently and more reliably to deliver the benefits of biomanufacturing, today. Visit www.manus.bio to learn more about how Manus is accelerating the transition to BioAlternatives. Click here for our press image gallery About Tate & Lyle PLC: Supported by our 165-year history of ingredient innovation, we partner with customers to provide consumers with healthier and tastier choices when they eat and drink. We are proud that millions of people around the world consume products containing our ingredients and solutions every day. Through our leading expertise in sweetening, mouthfeel and fortification, we develop ingredients and solutions which reduce sugar, calories and fat, add fibre and protein, and provide texture and stability to food and drink in categories including beverages, dairy, bakery, snacks, soups, sauces, and dressings. Tate & Lyle recently acquired CP Kelco, a leading provider of pectin, speciality gums and other nature-based ingredients to create a leader in mouthfeel, significantly enhancing our solutions capabilities. Following this combination, we now have more than 5,000 employees working in around 75 locations in 38 countries, serving customers in more than 120 countries. Science, Solutions, Society is our brand promise and how we will achieve our purpose of Transforming Lives through the Science of Food. By living our purpose, we believe we can successfully grow our business and have a positive impact on society. We live our purpose in three ways, by supporting healthy living, building thriving communities and caring for our planet. Tate & Lyle is listed on the London Stock Exchange under the symbol TATE.L. American Depositary Receipts trade under TATYY. For the year ended 31 March 2025, and on a pro forma basis which assumes for illustrative purposes that the combination with CP Kelco took place on 1 April 2024, revenue for the enlarged Tate & Lyle Group would have been £2.12 billion. For more information, please visit www.tateandlyle.com or follow Tate & Lyle on LinkedIn, X (Twitter), Facebook or YouTube WebWireID350943 This news content was configured by WebWire editorial staff. Linking is permitted. Distribute your news. * Every day, hundreds of individuals and companies choose WebWire to distribute their news. * WebWire places your news within numerous highly trafficked news search engines generating leads and publicity. * Submit Your Release Now!

AI & regenerative agriculture: this week's top food stories. As AI continues to integrate into the global business landscape, companies are looking to harness its potential not just for automation but to reinvent how work is performed. The Swiss multinational Nestlé, the company behind household names like Nescafé and KitKat, has advanced its position by joining the Frontier Firm AI Initiative. This collaboration between Harvard University's Digital Data Design Institute (D^3 Institute) and Microsoft is set to explore how AI can operate alongside humans to improve business performance. HelloFresh, the global leader in meal kit provision, has implemented an AI-driven solution that tackles a bottleneck in its recipe card production workflow. Operating across 18 countries through eight distinct brands, the company delivers hundreds of millions of meals each quarter to subscribers who receive pre-measured ingredients alongside chef-developed recipes delivered to their homes. This technology has compressed production timelines from multiple months down to hours, allowing HelloFresh to introduce new dishes to customers more rapidly throughout its international network. The festive season culminates for many with a roast bird centrepiece. However a rise in avian influenza cases across the UK is pressuring supply chains for Christmas turkeys, chickens and ducks. Hospitality buyers traders and wholesalers are monitoring the spread closely. Each case affects the movement of birds through transport processing and distribution networks that must run seamlessly to meet seasonal demand. These systems are vital with 10 million turkeys consumed in the UK every holiday season. Any disruption to this supply could considerably interrupt festive celebrations and damage retailer and restaurant reputations. Tate & Lyle operates as a global ingredient solutions provider, specialising in healthier food and beverage products. The company works to reduce its environmental footprint across its supply chain and operations, tackling challenges including climate change and water scarcity. Tate & Lyle has joined forces with Regrow Ag, a provider of agriculture resilience platforms, to assist its French corn suppliers in implementing regenerative agriculture methods. Kellanova and Walmart have initiated a partnership to address supply chain emissions and water consumption in rice production through a targeted investment in regenerative agriculture. Rice farming is known for its high water usage and methane output, yet according to Oxford University, it is a staple food for over four billion people. The collaboration is designed to support farmers in Arkansas, a key rice-producing state in the US. In conjunction with Indigo Ag, the programme provides a financial premium to participating farmers for each pound (approx. 0.45kg) of rice they produce using specified regenerative methods. These funds are intended to help farmers adopt new techniques such as improved water management, optimised fertiliser application and effective crop rotation strategies.

Bulletproof heroes the ampersand in Tate & Lyle's new identity. By unpacking the science behind Tate & Lyle's work, the identity captures the balance between nature and innovation, while an AI-image generator empowers employees to play with the visuals. For 165 years, Tate & Lyle has been one of the best-known names on UK supermarket shelves. But a lot has changed in that time, and it's moved on from selling standalone ingredients like syrups and treacles, to helping other makers create healthier products using sweeteners, fibres and plant-based solutions. To signal this shift and their ambitions for the future, Tate & Lyle collaborated with London-based brand agency Bulletproof for a new identity. The time was ripe for change, as the old brand had started to feel dated. "The old logo was very much what I call 'Sunday Times,' it had a huge amount of credibility and gravitas, but it looked like it belonged to a different era," says Helen Bass, global head of marketing and insights at Tate & Lyle. "We were really keen to drive it forward." The business had also recently acquired nature-based ingredients company CP Kelco, so the brand had to welcome a new chapter in Tate & Lyle's journey, all while driving internal culture, as the two workforces came together. "Previously, the brand wasn't really seen as a strategic growth driver," says Bass. "But the acquisition allowed us to step back and ask how our identity could truly reflect who we are - how we talk to customers, engage our employees, and show up to our investor community in the future." Tate & Lyle sought an identity that captured innovation without losing warmth. Each of its inventive products is derived from natural ingredients, so this intersection of science and nature became key to telling a more human story. "The brief was very clear - this wasn't just a marketing exercise," says Bass. "The new brand had to be something that sits at the beating heart of our organisation." To uncover the idea that would anchor the project, the Bulletproof team immersed itself in the science that underpins everything Tate & Lyle creates. David Beare, executive creative director at Bulletproof, likens this process to "an actor getting into character." The team almost "had to become scientists," he says. "We had to understand, at a granular level, what Tate & Lyle actually does in order to unlock the brief and push the creativity." Things clicked when they arrived at the "power of &," focusing on the ampersand in the wordmark as a symbol to carry both meaning and message. "Tate & Lyle is a business built on connection - on bringing things together to create something greater than the sum of its parts," says Beare. "That idea naturally led us to the ampersand. It symbolises collaboration and curiosity - a constant 'and what next?' mindset that keeps the business pushing, questioning and evolving. It couldn't have been a more fitting idea for a company bringing two worlds, and now two businesses, together." The ampersand served as a meaningful bridge to the brand idea - Science, Solutions & Society - capturing how science drives innovation, and how those real-world solutions, in turn, shape our relationship with food. This focal idea, as Bass puts it, brings clarity to the business. "Everyone can see themselves in it," she says. "It's not just for our scientists - our commercial teams, marketers, finance, and HR all understand the part they play in bringing it to life. It's become the structure for how we talk about our business, which is exactly what makes it such a hard-working brand idea." It's best reflected in a series of snappy idents that trace the journey from the microscopic world of ingredients, through the solutions they enable, to the bigger picture of how those innovations shape everyday life. The tagline - Science, Solutions & Society - provides the creative scaffolding for the idents, offering internal teams a guiding framework as the brand continues to evolve. A diagonal cut, lifted from the shape of the ampersand, appears across brand assets as a recurring graphic device that breaks up content and adds cohesion. This visual language is supported by a custom "workhorse" typeface that gives the brand an ownable voice, and an AI-powered ampersand generator - created for the employee portal - that helps embed the brand within internal culture. The generator allows employees to create a personalised, downloadable ampersand, an asset that's already proving to be a powerful conversation starter. "One of our strategic challenges was bringing two businesses together," says Bass. "What's brilliant about the ampersand generator is how naturally it sparks connection - whether it's colleagues commenting on each other's backgrounds in meetings, or customers asking about it. It opens the door to telling the story of Tate & Lyle." But in creating the generator, the Bulletproof team had to make decisions about how to use AI responsibly and effectively. "There are appropriate and inappropriate uses of AI, and this felt like a really meaningful one," says Beare. "We were careful to use only owned imagery and content. Initially, we used AI to help visualise conceptual thinking for the idents, but that process unlocked its potential as a generative tool, capable of creating multiple expressions of the ampersand." More than ensuring the brand lived beyond glossy brochures, the generator brought employees directly into the conversation. "Brands often feel quite top-down - something created by marketing and pushed out in the hope that it lands," says Beare. "With this, we saw an opportunity for every individual at Tate & Lyle to generate their own version of the ampersand, something personal that helps them connect with the business and see their role within it. It's meaningful because they've created it themselves, rather than being handed something to use. That difference is powerful."