NattoPharma signs Supply and Cooperation Agreement with Indevex Biotech
NattoPharma is pleased to announce that the company today has signed a supply- and cooperation agreement with Indevex Biotech for incorporating MenaQ7 into one or more of Indevex product lines based on its NGC nutrition formula. With this contract NattoPharma has established an important relationship with an innovative and science based Scandinavian Nutrition Company. Indevex's nutrition technology derives from a deep understanding of the nutritional and energy needs for both healthy and unwell individuals in order for them to function optimally. NattoPharma look very much forward to working together with such partner.
Jonas Hahn, VP Functional Food at NattoPharma says, "It is a great pleasure for our company that Indevex - with its internationally acknowledged formula NGC® - has chosen to take advantage of the Natural Vitamin K2 concept MenaQ7 as a future ingredient in their process of developing high performance nutrition products."
Christer Franzén, CEO at Indevex says, "We are now, together with NattoPharma, exploiting our expertise to look for new innovations and be in forefront of the strong nutritional trend which includes products with MenaQ7®, the natural vitamin K2.
About MenaQ7
MenaQ7 provides natural vitamin K2 as a fermentation extract whereby vitamin K2 is manufactured using Bascillus subtilis natto. This process has the capacity of producing the highly pure and bio-available form of vitamin K2, menaquinone-7 (MK-7). MenaQ7 is the best documented, commercially available natural vitamin K2 with guaranteed actives and stability, clinical substantiation and international patents granted and pending.
For more information on the health benefits of MenaQ7, please visit www.menaq7.com
About NattoPharma
NattoPharma, Norway is the exclusive international supplier of MenaQ7, the natural vitamin K2. NattoPharma has entered into a multi-year research and development program to substantiate and discover the health benefits of natural vitamin K2 for applications in the exciting marketplace for functional food and health food supplements.
For more information, please visit www.nattopharma.com
About Indevex
Indevex AB (publ), is a Swedish company founded in 2000 with the objective to develop and market a nutrient dense dry food composition. Indevex's nutrition technology Is based on severel years of scientific development work and studies together with Professor Stig Steen at Lund University.
The NGC nutrition formula is patented in several major international markets and offered to the market under license- and distribution agreements in both consumer and care segments. The commercial value has developed over the years with a unique understanding of physiology associated with nutrition, the products and their effects and the applications and processes surrounding these.
Indevex's NGC products are today sold in 42 countries and millions of products have been distributed during the launching phase within various sectors of the market. This has added valuable market and communication know-how and furthermore confirmed the safety, effectiveness and consumer appreciation of the NGC based products.
For more information, please contact:
NattoPharma ASA
Jonas Hahn
VP Functional Food
Mobile phone: +47 906 41 640
E-mail: jonas.hahn@nattopharma.com
www.nattopharma.com
Indevex Biotech
Christer Franzén
CEO
Mobile phone: +46 708930340
E-mail: Christer.franzen@indevex.com
www.indevex.com