Stevia Natura SAS

What Stevia Natura SAS does

Stevia Natura SAS, founded in 2006 and headquartered in Riom, France, is a privately held producer of natural stevia-based sweetening ingredients sold under the registered STEVIAL® brand. The company offers four core product lines — stevia extracts, blended formulations, stevia leaves, and stevia infusions — and targets business customers across five application verticals: beverages, food, pharmaceutical & nutritional products, cosmetics & personal care, and animal nutrition. Its go-to-market is a sales-led B2B model with a small team that includes a dedicated Stevia commercial manager and a Food BU / strategic account coordinator, supported by trade-show presence (e.g., CFIA Rennes, March 2024) and direct sample-request functionality on its website.

Underlying the commercial offering is the STEVIAL® PROGRAM, a project-coordination platform that links the company to French agricultural cooperatives for upstream varietal selection and short, equitable supply-chain development. Manufacturing and quality control are conducted at the Riom site, marketed as a European auditable factory with a European-standard quality laboratory — a positioning explicitly aimed at customers seeking alternatives to Asian-sourced stevia and to commodity sugar suppliers such as Cristalco. Revenue is generated primarily through one-time ingredient sales of STEVIAL® extracts, blends, leaves, and infusions, with secondary professional-services revenue from collaborative formulation, sensory analysis, and custom development work (notably via a strategic co-development partnership with aroma specialist MANE targeting dairy and food applications).

The company is small and tightly focused: only three named members of management are disclosed (Factory Director Guillaume Hoppenot, Sales Manager Pauline Ringard, and Food BU Manager / Strategic Coordinator Lionel Bourgain), and there is no public revenue, headcount, funding, or M&A data. Operating status is active as of 2024–2025 based on current website content and recent trade-show activity. Pricing is not publicly disclosed, and customer concentration, segment economics, and any parent/subsidiary relationships are unstated in the source material.

Name

Stevia Natura SAS

Legal name

Stevia Natura SAS

Website

https://stevia-natura.fr

Company type

Private

Founded year

2006

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Stevia Natura SAS is a French producer of natural stevia-based sweetening ingredients (extracts, blends, leaves, infusions) sold under the STEVIAL® brand to food, beverage, pharmaceutical, cosmetics, and animal nutrition manufacturers across Europe.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Natural Food Sweetener Ingredients

NAICS

Flavoring Syrup and Concentrate Manufacturing (311930), Sugar and Confectionery Product Manufacturing (3113), Animal Food Manufacturing (3111)

SIC

Sugar & Confectionery Products (2060), Medicinal Chemicals & Botanical Products (2833), Food And Kindred Products (2000)

akta.pro primary industry

Natural High-Intensity Sweeteners (Stevia, Monk Fruit, Thaumatin) (AFAJAAAH)

akta.pro secondary industries

Flavorings & Extracts (Natural & Artificial) (CRADAOAA), Flavorings, Sweeteners & Palatability Enhancers (AFADALAI), Extracts, Oleoresins & Essential Oils (Spice Extracts for Flavoring) (AFAJANAJ)

Keywords

• Stevia sweeteners
• Natural food ingredients
• Plant-based sweeteners
• Sugar reduction solutions
• Food ingredient manufacturing

Headquarters

HQ city

Riom

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Stevia Ingredients Sales: Sale of proprietary Stevial brand stevia extracts, blends, leaves, and infusions to food, beverage, pharmaceutical, cosmetics, and animal nutrition manufacturers.
2. Formulation and Development Services: Collaborative innovation services through the STEVIAL PROGRAM, providing sensory analysis and aromatic composition development tailored to specific food matrix applications.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Stevia Natura SAS produces and markets natural stevia-based sweetening ingredients under the STEVIAL® brand to manufacturers in the food, beverage, pharmaceutical, cosmetics, and animal nutrition industries. Its core offerings include stevia leaf extracts, custom blended sweetener formulations, raw stevia leaves, and stevia infusions, complemented by collaborative formulation and sensory analysis services delivered through the STEVIAL® PROGRAM platform.

Product overview

Stevia Natura SAS operates as STEVIAL®, a European specialist in stevia-based sweetener ingredients. The company offers a portfolio of four core product lines under the Stevial® brand: Les extraits Stevial® (stevia leaf extracts), Les mélanges Stevial® (blended formulations), Les feuilles Stevial® (stevia leaves), and Les infusions Stevial® (stevia infusions). These products serve diverse application sectors including beverages, food, pharma & nutrition, cosmetics & personal care, and animal nutrition. The company differentiates itself through local French production, agricultural partnerships with cooperatives, and a collaborative innovation program.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Les extraits Stevial® Stevia leaf extracts used as natural sweeteners for food and beverage applications, serving food, beverage, pharma, cosmetics, and animal nutrition manufacturers.
• Les mélanges Stevial® Blended sweetener formulations combining Stevia extracts with other natural ingredients for optimized taste profiles and reduced aftertaste.
• Les feuilles Stevial® Stevia leaves sold as raw ingredient for various food, beverage, and industrial applications.
• Les infusions Stevial® Stevia-infused products designed for beverage applications.

Quantifiable outcome

• Stevia extracts enable calorie-free sweetening alternatives for food and beverage products

Named customers1 record

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• MANEcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerStrategic partnership with MANE, a global aroma and flavor company. The collaboration combines Stevial's stevia extracts with MANE's aromatic expertise and sensory analysis capabilities to develop differentiated aromatic solutions for food applications, particularly dairy products. This partnership enables prediction of sensory outcomes and creation of aromatic compositions aligned with consumer preferences.
• Agricultural CooperativescoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnerships with agricultural cooperatives as part of the STEVIAL PROGRAM for short and equitable supply chain development. These partnerships support local investment and collaborative innovation, with activities including variety selection through facilities based in France.
• CristalcominorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCristalco (producer of beet sugar and cane sugar) represents both a market reference and competitive context. Stevial positions itself as a calorie-free alternative to Cristalco's sweetening solutions, simplifying customer démarches by offering a single contact for all sweet taste requirements.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• HYET Sweet: HYET Sweet is a Dutch-derived stevia ingredient producer operating across Europe and South America. As a regional player with EU presence, it is a direct competitor on stevia extracts and blends to European food manufacturers.
• SweeGen: SweeGen produces Bestevia stevia sweeteners and customized sugar-reduction solutions for food and beverage applications. It competes head-to-head with Stevia Natura across natural high-intensity sweetener blends targeting reformulation projects.
• PureCircle: PureCircle is one of the founding stevia sweetener specialists, now owned by Ingredion. It directly competes with Stevia Natura in the B2B supply of stevia extracts and blends to global food and beverage manufacturers, serving overlapping beverage, dairy, and food customers.
• GLG Life Tech: GLG Life Tech is one of the larger vertically integrated stevia extract producers globally, supplying high-purity Reb A and other steviol glycosides. It competes on scale and raw material integration against Stevia Natura's European specialist positioning.

Broad incumbents

• Ingredion: Ingredion is a global ingredient solutions provider that owns PureCircle and offers a wide range of sweeteners including stevia. It competes with Stevia Natura across European food and beverage customers as a full-line supplier that can bundle stevia alongside starches and other ingredients.
• Tate & Lyle: Tate & Lyle is a global specialty food ingredients platform with a deep sweetener portfolio including stevia, sucralose, and natural high-intensity sweeteners. It overlaps with Stevia Natura in stevia extracts and blends but addresses a much broader customer base and ingredient spectrum.
• Cargill: Cargill operates the EverSweet stevia sweetener franchise (via a Cargill/DSM bio-fermentation collaboration) and supplies food and beverage manufacturers globally. It competes with Stevia Natura on natural sweetener supply but at vastly greater scale and across a full food-ingredient portfolio.

Regional players

• CNCA (China-based stevia producers collective): Chinese stevia producers (loosely represented by industry bodies such as CNCA) account for the dominant share of global stevia leaf and crude extract supply. They primarily serve global stevia refiners rather than directly compete for European B2B accounts, but they set the commodity price benchmark that Stevia Natura must outperform on premium positioning.

Emerging players

• Manus Bio: Manus Bio is a U.S.-based biotechnology company applying fermentation routes to rare steviol glycosides such as Reb M and Reb D. It competes with Stevia Natura on next-generation steviol glycoside supply but through a fundamentally different fermentation-driven production model.
• Amyris: Amyris has developed fermentation processes for sweet ingredients including steviol glycosides and rare sugars, supplying flavor and ingredient customers. It competes with Stevia Natura on innovative, fermentation-based sweetener supply to CPG and consumer health customers.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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