Ohio-based ABITEC Corporation has entered a multi-year agreement with distribution partner Univar Canada, a subsidiary of the Illinois-based Univar Inc., to promote and sell its specialty lipid products in Canada’s nutraceutical and pharmaceutical markets.
Practitioner channel specialist Thorne Research is expanding its manufacturing capabilities and has concluded an investment partnership that will expand its business in Japan.
A quirk of the latest go round in the FDA facility registration process means thousands of foreign firms could find their registrations have lapsed, a leading consultant tells NutraIngredients-USA.
The POS Group of Companies has created a new US subsidiary, Batavia Bio Processing Limited, following the acquisition of an Illinois-based facility, and the company is eyeing further international expansion.
ProBiora Health, LLC, an entity owned by Ms. Christine L. Koski, has agreed to buy the consumer probiotic business of Oragenics, Inc. for $1.7 million in cash.
Herbalist & Alchemist has again been certified as a B Corporation, confirming the herbal products company’s high standards of social and environmental performance, transparency, and accountability.
Maypro Industries has completed a structured financing of Boise-based Good Superfoods, LLC, a manufacturer of functional chocolate products, nutrition bars and powders.
Garden of Life, a manufacturer of organic dietary supplements, has bolstered it social responsibility message by transforming itself into a B Corp, the company announced this week.
Boston, MA-based NutraClick has been ranked #58 on the “America’s Most Promising Companies” list by Forbes magazine, capping a notable year for the company.
New ‘suspect alkaloids’ are finding their way into the controversial pre-workout supplement sector, and potentially dangerous products will continue to flourish in the marketplace while there is wider support from the industry, according to the CEO of...
Pharmachem Laboratories, Inc., through its wholly owned subsidiary, Improve USA, has announced the self-affirmed GRAS status of its decolorized inner gel and whole aloe leaf powder products for use in food and beverages.
Ontario-based Nutrasource Diagnostics Inc. (NDI) has acquired Diteba Research Laboratories Inc. (Diteba) of Mississauga, Ontario, allowing NDI to expand its in-house bioanalytical capabilities and its innovative new biological and analytical testing methods.
One of the inventors of the B Corporation concept, Andrew Kassoy, said his goal was to find a way to harness the entrepreneurial spirit to solve social problems. Along the way, he discovered that a new corporate structure was needed to support that mission.
Partnerships are a ‘one plus one equals three’ endeavor, but communication is key to ensure the relationship is synergistic, says Stratum Nutrition’s Jeremy Moore.
DSM's Scottish vitamin manufacturing facility has won accreditation
from a new UK-based carbon foot printing scheme that recognises
green business practises.
Neptune Technologies & Bioressources has announced the closing
of a $4.5mn private placement of common shares, which is designed
to help accelerate its business strategy and boost R&D efforts.
Lipid Nutrition is breaking out of the Loders Croklaan business
unit structure, becoming a private limited liability company in its
own right and operating as an independent entity within the Loders
Croklaan Group.
France-based Laboratoires Pierre Fabre has announced an agreement
with Canadian bioresearcher Millenia Hope Biopharma (MHB), which
may yield new plant-based products for use by the nutraceuticals
industry.
Ongoing debate over strategy for the ingredient and juice producer
Ocean Spray Cranberries has damaged the co-operative's credit
rating, and could distract management from focusing on being more
competitive, said analysts this...
Starch ingredients company National Starch and Chemical, a
subsidiary of the chemical giant ICI Group, has moved further into
human nutrition with news this week that it has acquired the
resistant starch business from Penford Australia.
The drama continues at ChampionLyte Holdings which announces this
week that it has filed a lawsuit against former company chairman
and CEO Alan Posner, former chief financial officer Chris Valleau
and New York-based InGlobalVest,...
Drug delivery company BioDelivery Sciences has formed a new
subsidiary, Bioral Nutrient Delivery (BND), to market its
technology for soy-derived nutrients for use in food applications.
An investment group has acquired a controlling interest in
ChampionLyte Products, maker of the ChampionLyte sugar-free sports
drink, currently undergoing a major restructuring program.
Nutraceutix shareholders vote in favour of changing the company's
name to SCOLR, a name which is said to better reflect the shift
towards drug delivery technology.
US whole-foods nutrition company Whole Living announced this week
that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Vestrio,
an educational company that uses network marketing to offer a suite
of proprietary stock analysis...
LifeSmart Nutrition Technologies, formerly known as Upland Energy,
has announced that it has acquired LifeSmart Nutrition, the
Utah-based company, as a wholly owned subsidiary.
US company Martek Biosciences Corporation that develops,
manufactures and sells products from microalgae for nutritional
foods, announced recently that it has sold the assets of its stable
isotope business unit to Spectra Gases, Inc.,...
