Generating value for all our shareholders
At the heart of Glanbia's business model is our focus on delivering better nutrition. Through our core activities and unique capabilities we work to create sustainable value for all our stakeholders. Those unique capabilities include disciplined financial management, operational efficiency, and the delivery of world-class brands and ingredients.
Our business model
We focus on delivering our purpose
Our purpose is to deliver better nutrition. This purpose underpins our connection to our consumer and customers’ passion for our performance and lifestyle nutrition brands and nutritional ingredients.
Through our core activities
Adding value through customer-focused innovation and collaboration is central to our philosophy. It ensures that we can influence and drive market trends rather than simply respond to them.
How we add value
The power of our brands and ingredients coupled with our unrivalled expertise in protein have made us the #1 sports nutrition company in the world, leading US supplier of whey protein isolate and #2 global leader in custom premix solutions.
To create value for stakeholders
The impact of our purpose is demonstrated through the delivery of sustainable growth and value creation for all of society.
The pillars of our business model
Find out how we drive our purpose to deliver better nutrition through the three pillars of our business model: our core activities, adding value and delivering value for stakeholders.
Our portfolio of brands and ingredients
Performance Nutrition is home to the world's number one sports nutrition brand with an unrivalled product offering and key channel and category leadership. Health & Nutrition delivers great tasting nutrition solutions through its distinctive value proposition for both leading and emerging brands. Our protein powerhouse Dairy Nutrition supports customers with high-quality, innovative dairy solutions across its portfolio of whey proteins, cheese and bioactives.
Our markets
Glanbia’s brands and ingredients are positioned at the centre of large and growing sports nutrition and ingredients markets. Our portfolio of products meets key consumer needs and enables people to achieve their healthy lifestyles goals.
Our culture and talent
- Committed, adaptive and resilient
- Passion for delivering better nutrition
- Curious and innovative
- Respectful and inclusive
- Attracting, retaining and developing the best talent.
Marketing and brand building
We invest in world-class marketing tools to build our brands and sustain our leadership positions in ingredient solutions.
Selling
Our global and local sales teams use data, digital tools and insights to extend our sales and channel reach and improve our execution. We work in collaboration with our customers to deliver bespoke ingredient solutions that enable them to grow their business.
Innovating
Using our deep understanding of nutritional trends and behaviours we focus on driving sustainable innovation that delivers innovative branded products and nutritional ingredient solutions.
Transforming
Building a simpler, more effective business model to focus on growth and to deliver efficiencies to drive our next phase of growth.
Manufacturing
Our operational excellence enables us to manufacture brands and ingredients that meet the highest standards of food safety and quality. All our facilities operate with full regulatory compliance and good environmental stewardship.
Responsible sourcing
By working with our suppliers and implementing appropriate due diligence steps, we ensure that we procure responsibly, with social impact and environmental sustainability in mind.
Our brands and ingredients
We actively manage our portfolio of brands and nutritional ingredients to ensure we offer a broad range of products across regions, categories and price points.
Nutritional expertise and know-how
We have a deep science-led understanding of nutritional ingredients across vitamins, minerals, supplements and protein and their applications across nutritional sports brands and ingredient solutions.
Capital management
Glanbia has a strong track record of efficient capital allocation and reallocation to areas we see opportunity for growth.
Global talent management
As a global business, building organisational capability and strong leadership pipelines is key to our future success. Find out more about our people and culture.
Consumers and customers
Optimum Nutrition enjoys strong brand loyalty as a >$1bn brand that continues to grow.
$1.3bn Optimum Nutrition brand revenue in 2025.
People
We invest in our people and their careers, providing development opportunities, competitive rewards and benefits.
$625.8m Employee benefits for the wholly-owned Group in 2025
Suppliers
We partner with suppliers to ensure long-term, mutually beneficial relationships. We have an active risk assessment programme in place. In 2025, over 6,000 suppliers were risk assessed using the EcoVadis IQ Plus module, equating to in excess of 99% of our total spend.
Environment
We continue to focus on climate initiatives and have targeted a 50% reduction in Scope 1 & 2 carbon emissions by 2030.
8.8% Scope 1 & 2 carbon emissions reduction in 2025 versus 2024.
Communities
We contributed and donated time and money to support causes in our local communities.
€1.3m Raised to support charitable donations in 2025.
Investors
We enhanced our dividend policy to target a dividend payout ratio of 30%-40%. In addition, we returned €197.2 million to shareholders in 2025 under share buyback programmes.
€300m Returned to shareholders via dividends and buybacks in 2025.
Our business strategy
We have defined a clear set of strategic priorities to help us achieve our 2026 ambitions.
