Cerebos Pacific
health Supplements Company
Cerebos Pacific Limited (CPL) was a company that sold health supplements, food and coffee products across the Asia-Pacific region. In 2018, Kraft Heinz acquired Cerebos from Japan's Suntory Holdings.
History
Cerebos Pacific Limited traces its name back to 1892, when George Weddell decided to mix calcium phosphate with salt and invented dry-pouring salt. The brand name 'Cerebos' was derived from 'Ceres' for the Roman goddess of wheat harvest, and 'os' from the French word for 'bone.'
Cerebos subsequently grew to include a wide range of food products. It acquired Brand & Company in 1959 and later acquired Rank Hovis McDougall (RHM) in 1968.
In 1981, Cerebos Pacific Limited was formed, and in 1982 it acquired all RHM subsidiaries in the Asia-Pacific region. Suntory Holdings later purchased RHM shares in Cerebos Pacific Limited in 1990. In 2012, Cerebos was delisted from SGX and became a wholly owned subsidiary of Suntory until 2018, when its food and coffee division (including the Cerebos brand name in the Asia-Pacific region) was acquired by the Kraft Heinz Company. Suntory subsequently moved the health supplements division (now under Brand's brand name) to Suntory Beverage & Food Asia Pte. Ltd., and CPL was deregistered from the company register of Singapore.
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The record creator and administrative purpose are central evidence, because official documentation reflects both action and institutional priorities. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 21, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q20983838. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2018, 1892, 1959 and 1968.
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