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Functional Foods & Beverages

Identifying the functionalities in your food and drink products to optimise your success in targeting the right consumer groups.

Date: April 27, 2004
Venue:  Phoenix Copenhagen
City: Copenhagen, Denmark

In the Chair:

Professor Nils-Georg Asp
Managing Director
SWEDISH NUTRITION FOUNDATION

Hear from your eminent Speaker Panel:

Dr. Anu Hopia
Vice President Research and Development
RAISIO GROUP

Assistant Professor Riitta Korpela
Group Manager Nutrition R & D
VALIO

Rolf Bjerndell
Chief Executive Officer
SKÅNE MEJERIER

Jean-Luc Percy
Managing Director
DANONE SWEDEN, DENMARK AND NORWAY

Matteo Rollino
Senior Brand Managerk
DANONE SWEDEN, DENMARK AND NORWAY

Robert Svanberg
Head of Innovation
ARLA FOODS

Professor Björn Åkesson
Biomedical Nutrition, Lund University
and Member of the Network Board
NUGO – THE EUROPEAN NUTRIGENOMICS ORGANISATION

Professor Dr. Gerhard Rechkemmer
Life and Food Science Centre Weihenstephan
TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH

Staffan Påhlsson
Senior Vice President Sales & Marketing
BIOGAIA

Event Summary:

There is a consumer trend worldwide to demand wellbeing food and drinks to match a healthier lifestyle. This pushes many manufacturers in the global food and drink business to explore the potential of probiotic culture. It opens up new business opportunities for niche manufacturers who develop functional food and beverages with health claims.

Companies in the forefront are able to licence their partners and distribute their products to other geographical markets. By taking advantage of the probiotic culture in dairies, yoghurts and beverages traditional food companies are able to cross the borderlines between healthcare and pharmaceuticals and explore new business opportunities. Innovation is the key to be successful.

To reach this position companies collaborate with universities and biotech firms to deliver added value functional foods and beverages to consumers worldwide. It is already a reality that consumers embrace the concept of wellbeing food and drinks and this will enable the food and drink industry to break new grounds in the 21st century.

Our groundbreaking Functional Foods & Beverages conference will bring together the world leading expertise in the development of probiotic food and drinks with health claims.

Key issues:

  • Grasping new markets through added health benefits and added probiotic bacteria in your functional food and beverages
  • Integrating consumer trends in your R & D to win new business opportunities
  • Examining the EC regulation proposals on nutrition and health claims
  • Developing strategic partnerships with universities and biotechnology companies to innovate your pipeline of products
  • Targeting global players to maximise your distribution channels

Target audience:

Presidents, Chief Executive Officers, Chief Scientific Officers, Chief Technology Officers, Vice Presidents, Heads, Directors, Managers and Scientists of:

  • Research and Development
  • Innovation Bioscience
  • Food Applications
  • Health and Nutrition
  • Biosector
  • Molecular Biotechnology
  • Business and Development
  • Global Nutrition and Health
  • Nutritional Research and Development
  • Product Innovators
  • Business Development
  • New Ventures
  • Strategic Allicances
  • Corporate Strategic Marketing
  • Human Nutrition R & D
  • Consumer Health
  • Medical Nutrition
  • Corporate Bioscience
  • Nutrient Bioavailability
  • Nutritional Biochemistry
  • Product Innovators
  • Business Development
  • New Ventures
  • Strategic Alliances
  • Consultancy
  • Venture Capitalists

This case study-driven event is designed especially for top executives in food, drink, biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies.

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