Las Vegas, NV — The Natural Products Association (NPA), based in Washington, D.C., held its inaugural conference The Big Natural on June 7-9 in Las Vegas for members and non-members alike. The trade association partnered with Momentum to help put on and market the event. “We designed this event to...
Ankeny, IA — Embria Health Sciences has partnered with Gee Lawson to distribute its flagship ingredient, EpiCor, to countries in Western Europe including United Kingdom, Italy, France, Germany, Spain, the Scandinavia and Benelux regions. Gee Lawson is the Nutritional Division of LEHVOSS UK. Gee Lawson specializes in the sourcing, technical...
Harrison, NY — Long-time soft drinks distributor PepsiCo has been reported by Reuters to be in talks to purchase All Market Inc., the owner of leading coconut brand Vita Coco. PepsiCo is offering less than the $1 billion that All Market is seeking, according to the report. All Market owners...
Bedminster, NJ — According to a press release from Swander Pace Capital, the private equity firm has sold Kicking Horse Coffee, Ltd., the #1 organic and fair trade coffee roaster in Canada to Luigi Lavazza S.p.A. in a transaction valued at C$215 million. In 2012, the firm partnered with Kicking...
Park City, UT — Nutraceutical International Corporation has entered into an agreement under which an affiliate of HGGC, LLC, a middle-market private equity firm, will acquire the company in a transaction valued at about $446 million that includes debt to be refinanced. Under the terms of the agreement, Nutraceutical stockholders...
Houston, TX — Qualitas Health has announced a long term, strategic partnership with the commercial crop producer Green Stream Farms in an effort to triple its algae production. This will allow the firm to achieve enough critical mass to become a sustainable omega-3 alternative worldwide at a commercial scale. “We...
East Rutherford, NJ — All shares of Mushroom Wisdom, Inc. have been acquired by Hokuto Corporation, one of Japan’s biggest mushroom cultivators with annual sales of about $600 million. The transaction also includes the acquisition of Sun Medica, Co., Ltd, an affiliate of Mushroom Wisdom as well as the transfer...
Rep. Jason Chaffetz, a Utah Republican and the House’s Oversight and Government Reform Committee chairman, announced he would not seek re-election in 2018. Instead, Chaffetz will return to the private sector, but he left open the notion of running for public office again in the future. Chaffetz, who was first...
NattoPharma, a researcher and developer of vitamin K2 products based in Metuchen, NJ, has been awarded a grant by the Norwegian Research Council. The grant will be used to fund a 4-year project documenting how the absence or presence of vitamin K2, MK7 effects the metabolism of calcium in the...
Purity Foods, Inc., a Hudson, MI-based processor of conventional and organic grains, has been acquired by Andersons, Inc. Grain Group, based in Maumee, OH. Certified by the Quality Assurance International (QAI) and the America Institute of Baking (AIB), Purity Foods is comprised of a two productions lines and a 650,000-bushel...
