Oat & Alder
Breakfast, uncomplicated. Four grains, no dye, 11g fibre per bowl.
Founded 1878 · Lindport, on the Aare
Good food, good life — for 148 years and counting.
Six brands, one standard: real ingredients, honest labels, prices that hold at the register. What began as a single condensed-milk mill on the Aare now reaches kitchens in 187 countries.
A house of six brands
Each one runs on its own recipe, its own supply chain, its own team — under one set of food-safety and sourcing standards.
ROAST MERIDIAN
37 origins, one cup at a time. Small-batch roasted in four cities.
Cacao Union
72% single-estate cocoa, since 1952. No vanillin, no shortcuts.
basin & spring
Bottled at source. Alpsgate Reserve, 214m below the ridge line.
Little Harvest
Formula and first foods reviewed by an independent pediatric panel every quarter, since day one.
MEADOWFARE
Complete nutrition for dogs and cats, formulated with two staff vets.
61,400t
of cocoa, 2025
Where the cocoa comes from
Cacao Union sourced 61,400 metric tons of cocoa through its Direct Trade Program last year, traced to 74,200 farmer partners across Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire. Every shipment carries a farm-cluster code you can look up on the pack. Roast Meridian runs a parallel program for coffee: 18,900 tons, 22,000 growers, three co-ops audited on-site each spring.
Read the full 2025 Sustainability ReportHow we label
Nutrition claims on any Verdane pack are calculated per labeled serving, verified by an outside lab, and re-checked whenever a recipe changes by more than 2% of any listed ingredient.
- Front-of-pack sugar, salt & fat scale
- on 100% of retail packaging since 2019
- Full ingredient disclosure, no "natural flavor" umbrella terms
- across all six brands
- Independent lab verification
- quarterly, three accredited labs rotating
- Recipe-change re-testing threshold
- any ingredient shift over 2% by weight