Levantine

What Levantine does

Levantine (UK) Limited is a privately held UK food processor founded in 2002 and headquartered in Hayes, Middlesex. The company processes edible nuts and seeds, providing value-added services including baking, caramelising, coating, seasoning, optical sorting via SORTEX BioVision technology, and validated heat treatment with up to 6-log pathogen reduction. Operated from a BRCGS-accredited factory, Levantine supplies UK-cleaned, retail-grade nut and seed ingredients.

The business is B2B and bulk-oriented, serving supermarkets (own-label programmes with regular audits), retail brands (custom recipes via co-packer partnerships), and food service operators (hospitality, catering, bars), alongside ingredient manufacturers in nut butters, ice cream, chocolate and confectionery, cereals and cereal bars, and ready meals. Products span a core snacking range plus tailored ingredient formats — whole, nibbed, plain roasted, or caramelised — delivered in portable sacks or tote bags through global logistics links. Pricing is quote-based and not publicly disclosed; there are no consumer-facing sales or branded retail SKUs.

Revenue mechanics are standard B2B food ingredient: the company sells processed volume under bespoke specifications to enterprise customers, with co-packers handling downstream retail packaging. Levantine holds no disclosed funding, no parent company, and operates from a single UK facility with 11-50 employees, indicating an established but small-scale specialist processor rather than a commodity trader or branded retail business.

Name

Levantine

Legal name

Levantine (UK) Limited

Website

https://levantine.co.uk

Company type

Private

Founded year

2002

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Levantine (UK) Limited is a privately held UK food processor, founded in 2002 in Hayes, that specialises in value-added processing of edible nuts and seeds — baking, caramelising, coating, optical sorting, and heat treatment — supplying bulk ingredients and finished products to supermarkets, retail brands, food service operators, and ingredient manufacturers in the UK and internationally.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

NAICS

Roasted Nuts and Peanut Butter Manufacturing (311911), Snack Food Manufacturing (31191), Food Manufacturing (311)

SIC

Food And Kindred Products (2000), Miscellaneous Food Preparations & Kindred Products (2090)

akta.pro primary industry

Trail Mix & Snack Mix Manufacturing (AFAKAIAG)

Keywords

• Nut processing services
• Seed processing services
• Roasted nut products
• Edible nut manufacturing
• Bulk nut supply

Headquarters

HQ city

Hayes

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Supply Chain, Operations, Personnel, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Bulk Nut and Seed Processing: Levantine processes and supplies nuts and seeds in bulk quantities to various sectors including supermarkets, retail brands, and food service. They offer both portable sacks for manual handling and tote bags for industrial operators. Custom product development and co-packer partnerships support diverse customer requirements.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

Levantine processes and supplies edible nuts and seeds in bulk, specialising in baking, caramelising, coating, seasoning, optical sorting, and validated heat treatment. The company delivers bulk portable sacks and tote bags to supermarkets, retail brands, and food service operators worldwide, with custom recipe development and co-packer partnerships for finished retail packaging.

Product overview

Levantine is a food processing company offering nut and seed products across multiple categories including a core snacking range with roasted nuts in classic and unique flavors, roasted nuts for butters, ice cream inclusions, chocolate and confectionery additions, cereal ingredients, and ready meal toppings. The company provides processing capabilities including baking, caramelising, coating, seasoning, optical sorting, heat treatment, and bulk packing, serving sectors across supermarkets, retail brands, and food service.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Quantifiable outcome

• Up to 6-log reduction through validated heat treatment

Segments8 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Diamond Foods: US nut snack and culinary nut producer with private-label and branded nut ranges. Comparable as a national-scale nut processor selling snack and ingredient nuts to retail and food-manufacturer customers in the same value chain as Levantine.
• Olam Food Ingredients (ofi): Global ingredient supplier with a large nuts and dairy ingredients platform serving food manufacturers, confectionery, bakery and snack customers worldwide. Broader and global incumbent whose nuts business overlaps directly with Levantine's ingredient and inclusion customers.
• Carriage House Companies (TreeHouse Foods): North American private-label nut and snacking products manufacturer within TreeHouse Foods. Comparable as a private-label nut processor serving retail and food-manufacturer customers, though operating at substantially larger scale than Levantine.
• John B. Sanfilippo & Son: US-listed processor and packer of nuts and snack nuts selling under private label, branded and ingredient channels. Comparable as a vertically integrated nut processor selling to the same supermarket own-label, retail-brand and food-manufacturer end markets Levantine serves.
• KP Snacks (McAdam's): UK snack manufacturer best known for nuts, crisps and popcorn brands including KP Nuts and McAdam's. Comparable as a UK-based nut snack producer selling to the same supermarket and food-service customers, though operating with branded retail products rather than Levantine's pure ingredient focus.

Direct peers

• KTC (Edibles) Ltd: UK-based nuts, seeds, dried fruit and snack processor supplying bulk and own-label products to retail, food service and ingredient customers. Direct competitor to Levantine in the British bulk nut and seed processing market with overlapping B2B supermarket, food-service and ingredient customers.
• Community Foods: UK processor and supplier of nuts, seeds and dried fruits to food manufacturers, retailers and food service operators. Comparable to Levantine as a UK-based B2B nut and seed ingredient processor supplying supermarket own-label and food-manufacturer customers.

Regional players

• Hampton Farms: US peanut processor producing roasted peanuts, snack peanuts and nut butters for retail and ingredient customers. Comparable as a peanut-focused processor selling roasted nuts and nut-butter paste-line material to retail and food-manufacturer customers, though based in the US rather than the UK.
• Mariani Nut Company: US almond and nut processor supplying industrial, ingredient and consumer customers. Comparable as a vertically integrated almond and nut ingredient processor serving confectionery, cereal and snack inclusion end markets similar to Levantine, primarily in the US.
• Select Harvests: Australian almond growing, processing and value-added ingredient business supplying industrial, retail and food-service customers globally. Comparable as an almond-focused processor and ingredient supplier whose nut inclusion and roasted nut products compete for similar confectionery, cereal and snack customers in export markets.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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