DDW, The Color House
Founded1865
FounderDouw Ditmars Williamson
Headquarters
Louisville, KY, USA
ProductsFood coloring
WebsiteDD 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] DDW's first international manufacturing facility was founded in Little Island, Cork.[4]

The company is an emerging leader for natural coloring in yellow, orange and brown hues.[5] Every day more than 2 billion servings of food and beverages containing DDW coloring are consumed around the globe.[6]

Beverages containing naturally derived food coloring

References

  1. ↑ Wolfe, Bill (3 April 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 (eds.), Natural Food Colorants, IFT Basic Symposium Series, vol. 5, New York: Marcel Dekker, Inc., pp. 253–272, ISBN 0-8247-0421-5
  3. ↑ "Locations". D.D. Williamson. Retrieved 14 May 2012.
  4. ↑ Cadogan, Stephen (2003-11-27). "D D Williamson serve up 25 years of ingredients". Irish Examiner. Retrieved 2020-12-13.
  5. ↑ "DDW Acquires DUPONT™ DANISCO® Food Colorings" (Press release). DD Williamson. 17 December 2013. Retrieved 26 December 2013.
  6. ↑ "Company Info". DD Williamson. Retrieved 14 May 2012.


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