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Neptune Technologies & Bioressources harvests krill (tiny deepwater crustaceans that resemble shrimp) from the ocean and processes it into value-added bioactive ingredients including polyunsaturated fatty acids and antioxidants. These 'Neptune Krill Oil'-based products are used in cosmetics and nutritional supplements as an alternative to vegetable oils. The company's Neptune Krill Aquatein is a marine protein concentrate also used in nutritional supplements. Neptune Technologies intends to penetrate the biopharmaceutical industry, using its marine oil extracts as a medicinal base.

New Leaf Brands, Inc. engages in the development, marketing, and distribution of ready-to-drink (RTD) beverages. Products The company’s New Leaf brand is a natural tea sweetened with organic cane sugar and specifically formulated to address the market for a healthy but appealing beverage. New Leaf is available in 13 flavors, integrating blue teas, green teas, black teas, and white teas. New Leaf products consist of Blue Teas, such as Diet Blue Tea with Lemon, Diet Blue Tea with Peach, Blue Tea with Lemon, Blue Tea with Peach, and Blue Tea with Raspberry; Green Teas, such as Green Tea with Plum, Green Tea with Ginseng, and Green Tea with Mango; White Teas, such as White Tea with Ginseng & Honey, White Tea with Honey Dew Melon, White Tea with Strawberry, and White Tea with Tangerine; and Black Tea: Mint & Lime International Sales The company sells its New Leaf brands in Canada and the Carribean. Customers New Leaf Tea is marketed to distributors, such as natural food, gourmet food, and mainstream distributors. The company’s major distributor is Manhattan Beer. Competition The company competes with soft drink companies, such as Coca Cola, Pepsi, and Cadbury Schweppes. In addition, it competes with beverage companies, including Arizona, Snapple, Lipton Brisk, Sobe, Vitamin Water, Fuze, Nestea, Tazo, Honest Tea, and Sweet Leaf Tea. Dispositions On October 9, 2009, the company completed the sale of its nutraceutical business, Nutritional Specialties, Inc. History The company was incorporated in 1986. It was formerly known as Baywood International, Inc. and changed its name to New Leaf Brands, Inc. on October 19, 2009.

NutraCea is a health science company that has intellectual property that allows the Company to process and convert rice bran into a nutritious ingredient, stabilized rice bran that has applications in various food products and as components of formulations that have applications for treatment modalities in nutritional supplementation. It is also used as a stand-alone product that can be sold through non-related entities with distribution into the market place, both in the United States and internationally. These products include food supplements and medical foods. The Company operates in two segments: the NutraCea segment, which manufactures and distributes ingredients primarily derived from SRB, and the Irgovel segment, which consists of its rice-bran oil and fatted and de-fatted SRB manufacturing subsidiary in Pelotas, Brazil. In November 2009, the Company filed a voluntary petition for protection under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankrupt Code.

Nutraceutical International Corp. was founded in 1993 and is based in Park City, Utah. Nutraceutical International Corporation engages in the manufacture, marketing, distribution, and retail of branded nutritional supplements and other natural products in the United States and internationally. The company offers vitamins and minerals, herbs, specialty formulas, personal care products, homeopathics, functional foods, and other products in various formulations and delivery forms, including capsules, tablets, softgels, chewables, liquids, creams, sprays, powders, and whole herbs. It also publishes, prints, and markets a line of books and booklets to book distributors, national retail bookstores, and health and natural food stores; distributes branded products of certain third parties; and owns neighborhood natural food markets and health food stores. Nutraceutical International sells its products primarily to and through domestic health and natural food stores.

Nutrition 21, Inc. company was founded in 1983 and is headquartered in Purchase, New York. Nutrition 21, Inc., a nutritional bioscience company, develops, markets, and distributes proprietary and clinically substantiated nutritional supplements in the United States. The company sells Chromax branded chromium picolinate to vitamin and supplement and food manufacturers and marketers, as well as directly to retailers for use in human and animal nutrition products. It also develops and commercializes Diabetes Essentials, a proprietary, non-prescription, insulin sensitizer for people with type 2 diabetes. In addition, the company offers a portfolio of health and wellness products under the Iceland Health Maximum Strength Omega-3, Iceland Health Joint Relief, Iceland Health Advanced Memory Formula, Chromax chromium picolinate, Prescriptix Supplements, and Diabetes Essentials names. In addition, Nutrition 21, Inc. grants patent licenses to its ingredients to manufacturers and marketers of vitamin and mineral supplements.

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