Biosciences and nutrition sales and volumes picked-up, largely due to the recent acquisition of Danisco.
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Jorgen Tandrup, Danisco's chairman of the board, said the deal is a good one for shareholders.
Danisco argues that developing clever new packaging can strengthen relationships with buyers of its other products.
After the merger with Cultor, Danisco's annual sales of specialist ingredients are around DKr6 billion.
Last year Danisco spent DKr1.2 billion buying Sidlaw, a British firm, to extend its reach.
Until that changes, Danisco may find that it has limited opportunities to cross-sell its products.
The real question is whether flexible packaging has any logical connection with Danisco's main focus on food ingredients.
Judging by the share price, investors remain unconvinced that Danisco's strategy makes sense.
European food ingredient companies saw their stocks gain after Danisco's approval of the DuPont merger, including fellow Danish firm Novozymes.
Typically, Danisco's ingredients represent less than 1% of the volume of a finished food product, such as an ice cream.
Although it spends plenty on research, Danisco is concentrating on developing new uses for existing products, rather than on real innovations.
In spite of its leading position, Danisco has a share of the world ingredients market estimated by analysts at a mere 6%.
DuPont CEO EllenKullmanEllen Kullman said Monday morning that Danisco's market-driven science business will compliment DuPont's nutrition and health business, as well as its applied bioscience study.
He ran Genencor --which produces a variety of mostly industrial enzymes--from late 2002 until it was bought by Danish food ingredient group Danisco in February this year.
Mr Mayer is championing the idea that Danisco should be a partner capable of developing new solutions for, say, baking the perfect cake or using pectin to replace gelatine in chewy sweets.
But by specialising in emulsifiers, enzymes and flavours, rather than such bulk ingredients as flour and milk, Danisco controls the ingredients that are critical in helping manufacturers to distinguish their products from rival ones.
Danisco's CEO said in a statement Monday that DuPont's offer is the best that the company, which began as a sugar company and shifted in 2009 to products that range from food components to industrial enzymes, can expect.
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