Using health care professionals to help promote an ingredient has obvious benefits, but convincing these professionals requires a lot of science. Kemin and Cognis talk about how to make this approach a success.
‘Billion dollar deal’ was not a phrase bandied about the food ingredients industry much last year. With BASF buying Cognis for €3.1bn and Corn Products International paying $1.3bn for National Starch, M&A looks to be thawing – but best not get over-excited...
Speculation about typical asset valuing ion the chemicals industry by Cognis’s chief financial officer, Marco Panichi, has led to a figure of €3.4bn being attached to the German ingredient company, as buy-out speculation mounts.
A Wisconsin start-up has launched the first Conjugated Linoleic Acid (CLA)-fortified chocolate milk in the US, making it the third localized release, CLA food or drink product to hit the market since GRAS (generally recognized as safe) approval was achieved...
Cognis has told NutraIngredients.com the German ingredients giant will not be sold in the near-future despite suggestive statements emanating from the German press.
Cognis has won hard-to-come-by approval from the Australian Thepareutic Goods Administration (TGA) to use its anti-cholesterol, plant sterol ester ingredient, Vegepure, in food supplements.
German ingredients giant Cognis has gained access to one of the
world's largest natural compounds databases in a move it hopes will
generate business in new functional foods, supplements and
cosmeceutical applications.
Cognis has expanded its sterol ester plant in Germany, enabling the
global chemicals supplier to produce the functional foods
ingredient in a finished form without any further processing
needed.
European ingredients firm Cognis is using the IFT event in Chicago
this week as a platform to launch a variety of new products on the
US market, including emulsifiers, aerating agents and a 'natural'
mold inhibitor.
Cognis has reported strong sales and operating profits for full
year 2006 - results to which its wellness and sustainability focus
made significant contribution.
Cognis is looking to tailor a competitive edge for its branded
ingredients by combining them under one platform designed to push
their scientific basis, as well as any health claims they may hold,
for dietary supplements and functional...
Cognis has announced it will launch a branded omega-3 fish oil
ingredient called Omevital, following its acquisition of the
Norwegian supplier Napro Pharma earlier this year.
Cognis is tailoring some of its branded health ingredients around
an immunity platform directed at the cold and flu season
specifically, the company announced at Supply Side West in Las
Vegas.
Puleva Biotech has signed an agreement with US-based The Wright
Group for its Eupoly fish oils to be used in a new line of
microencapsulated powders, becoming the latest supplier to shore up
its presence in an ever more crowded market.
Cognis and WILD are joining forces to form a powerhouse of food and
beverage product innovation, combining Cognis' store of ingredients
with Wild's formulation expertise.
Cognis has announced its first move in the competitive omega-3
market with the acquisition of Norwegian fish oil concentrate
supplier Napro Pharma, and is developing new solutions to aid its
use in foods.
Cognis is counting on phytosterols and branded ingredients like
Tonalin CLA to drive its nutrition and health business unit, while
at the same time investigating strategic options for the company as
a whole
Health ingredients firm Cognis has introduced two African plant
extracts that it claims can offer real antioxidant benefits to iced
tea and other drinks looking for a healthy positioning.
Growing consumer demand for nutritional foods will always be
tempered by demands for taste, said ingredients firm Cognis at last
week's IFT exhibition, reports Anthony Fletcher.
German health ingredients firm Cognis Nutrition & Health will
introduce a new range of high quality plant extracts for foods and
beverages at Vitafoods, the industry show opening in Geneva
tomorrow.
Stronger demand for chemicals lifted sales across all business
units at Cognis, the Germany company said this week, with one of
the best performances from its health ingredients division
confirming the group's focus on wellness,...
Cognis Nutrition & Health is introducing a vegetarian version
of its marigold-derived Xangold 10% microencapsulated lutein ester
beadlets for tablet and dry food formulators seeking to meet the
needs of a burgeoning vegetarian...
German group Cognis, the supplier of plant sterols and CLA, is
considering the issue of a €500 million bond to fund a dividend
payment to its private equity owners, it said last week.
The first half of 2004 has brought some light relief for Cognis'
Nutrition and Health division, which suffered from adverse currency
movements last year.
Cognis, the speciality chemicals company, suffered a tough year in
the nutritional ingredients market, with a long-awaited surge in
the growth of its natural vitamin E sales undermined by adverse
currency movements.
Cognis Nutrition and Health has added a new vegetable sterol esters
ingredient to its product range. The company, which launched the
product for the US market at the SupplySide West tradeshow last
week, said vegetable sterol esters...
The Cognis Group, a leader in antioxidant and botanical
ingredients, announced recently that it is near to completing
construction of the world's largest stand-alone manufacturing
facility for phytosterols.
Cognis Nutrition and Health used the Vitafoods exhibition taking
place in Geneva, Switzerland this week as the right platform to
launch its Tonalin CLA to the European market.
Always one of the biggest stands at Vitafoods, Cognis Nutrition and
Health seem ever more present this year, with heavy marketing,
including an evening event, to launch its Tonalin CLA to the
European market.
Cognis Nutrition & Health, a nutritional ingredients supplier,
has responded to claims made earlier this week by Dutch rival
Loders Croklaan regarding the infringement of several of its
patents.
Speciality chemicals company Cognis announced today that its
agreement with Norwegian firm Natural for the licence to its
Tonalin brand conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) will go into effect
this weekend.
Cognis Nutrition and Health and Kemin Foods have finally reached an
agreement in court over the marketing and promotional issues for
lutein and lutein esters products.Specific terms of the agreement
are to remain confidential between...
Specialty chemicals company Cognis said it had maintained its
market position in 2001 despite difficult trading conditions and
the sale of the company in November.
Natural specialty ingredients manufacturer Kemin Foods, has filed a
lawsuit in the US contending that fine chemicals company, Cognis
Corp., continues to make false claims that blur the differences
between lutein esters and the purified...
Henkel KgaA has agreed to sell its chemical division Cognis to a
consortium of financial investors comprising of Schroder Ventures
and Goldman Sachs Capital Partners.
