D.D. Williamson

DDW, The Color House
Founded 1865
Founder Douw Ditmars Williamson
Headquarters Louisville, KY, USA
Products Food coloring
Website DD Williamson

DDW, The Color House (D.D. Williamson) is a global, privately held corporation providing caramel color, burnt sugar & natural colorings for the food and beverage industry. In 1865, Dutch immigrant Douw Ditmars Williamson founded D.D. Williamson in New York to manufacture burnt sugars for the brewing industry.[1] The caramel industry moved into coloring cola and many other foods following Prohibition and the Great Depression.[2]

Now headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky, DDW has nine manufacturing sites for naturally derived coloring on five continents with customers in 100 countries.[3] The company is an emerging leader for natural coloring in yellow, orange and brown hues.[4] Every day more than 2 billion servings of food and beverages containing DDW coloring are consumed around the globe.[5]

Beverages containing naturally derived food coloring

References

  1. ↑ Wolfe, Bill (3 Apr 2008). "Williamson shares recipe for success". The Courier-Journal (Louisville: Gannett).
  2. ↑ Kamuf, William; Nixon, Alexander; Parker, Owen (2000), "Caramel Color", in Lauro, Gabriel J.; Francis, F. Jack, Natural Food Colorants, IFT Basic Symposium Series 5, New York: Marcel Dekker, Inc., pp. 253–272, ISBN 0-8247-0421-5
  3. ↑ "Locations". D.D. Williamson. Retrieved 14 May 2012.
  4. ↑ "DDW Acquires DUPONT™ DANISCO® Food Colorings" (Press release). DD Williamson. 17 Dec 2013. Retrieved 26 Dec 2013.
  5. ↑ "Company Info". DD Williamson. Retrieved 14 May 2012.