Joint Venture

Valensa, Parry launch JV with Indian partner on phycocyanin development

08-Feb-2018 By Hank Schultz

Florida-based Valensa International and parent company EID Parry have announced a new joint venture to develop new ingredients and non-GMO certifications on existing algae products.

BlueOcean targets tablet form of omega-3 delivery via latest joint venture

23-Feb-2015 By Hank Schultz

BlueOcean NutraSciences has signed a joint venture agreement with a Canadian technology firm to bring a slow release tablet form of omega-3s to market using its algal and shrimp oils, the company announced last week. The technology could also be used...

Swisse Wellness CEO hails ‘game-changing’ deal with PGT Healthcare: ‘It enables us to become that global wellness brand’

21-Nov-2013 By Stephen DANIELLS

Premium products, mega-spend marketing, and global ambitions are driving growth for Swisse Wellness, says its CEO, days after inking a ‘game-changing’ deal with PGT Healthcare giving it access to over 50 countries.

Neptune posts 31% rise in nutraceutical sales in Q4 as krill oil demand grows

25-May-2012 By Elaine Watson

Canadian krill oil firm Neptune Technologies & Bioressources has posted a 31% surge in sales in its nutraceutical business in the final quarter of fiscal 2012, and a 15% rise in sales in this division over the full year.

Neptune gains momentum in Asia as krill oil JV outlines new factory plans

18-Jan-2012 By Elaine Watson

Construction of a new factory that will manufacture Neptune Technologies & Bioressources’ krill oil products in Asia, will begin late this year or early next, and start generating revenue in 2014, bosses at the Canadian firm have revealed.

Infant nutrition company signs Persian Gulf joint venture

01-Apr-2010 By Mike Stones

US company Mead Johnson has teamed up with food and beverage company Almarai, based in the Persian Gulf, to target the region’s infant formula nutrition market valued at US$450m.

Cargill Chinese ARA JV near completion

26-Nov-2009

The ARA production facility owned by Cargill Alking Bioengineering, the joint venture between Cargill and Chinese company, Alking Bioengineering, will begin production in 2010.

Special comment: China dairy crisis

Choose your joint venture partner with care

18-Sep-2008

The melamine milk crisis throws up some serious questions that foreign food firms must ask before they hop aboard a joint venture to take them into China. What food safety features is it fitted with? And are they robust enough to be life-savers if disaster...

Nutracea signs Southeast Asian joint venture

26-Jun-2007 By staff reporter

Nutracea is taking its stabilized rice bran to Southeast Asia
through an Indonesian industrialist it says is affiliated with a
large wheat milling operation in the region - PT Panganmas Inti
Persada.

Taste focus for Solae soy

02-Oct-2003

Freshly formed Bunge-Dupont soy ingredient joint venture, The Solae
Company, is to plunge into flavors and to work on the taste of soy
protein through a new collaboration with flavor scientists at the
Linguagen corporation.

Whey to go...

06-Mar-2003

US supplier of applied protein sciences Proliant and Trega Foods, a
manufacturer of cheese and dairy-based ingredients, have announced
a joint venture for the production and marketing of whey protein
isolates.

DuPont, Bunge venture in health-food ingredients

07-Jan-2003

DuPont, the largest US chemical company, and the leading oilseed
processor Bunge, are joining forces to launch a soy ingredients
business, the firms announced this week. The venture will tap into
the booming market for health foods.

Unigene JV launches calcitonin in China

28-Mar-2002

A joint venture between US-based Unigene Laboratories and China's
Shijiazhuang Pharmaceutical Group will begin selling injectable
calcitonin in China for the treatment of osteoporosis as of 1
April.