Martek food growth
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
The maker of life'sDHA is using the same strategy to expand into the foods and beverage industry that it used to penetrate 99 percent of the U.S. infant formula market. Martek Biosciences President David Abramson tells analysts at the Canaccord Adams Healthy Living Conference Oct. 15 in Boston his firm continues to seek long-term exclusive agreements to supply nutritional oils for conventional foods to market leaders such as Coca-Cola and General Mills. He says Columbia, Md.-based Martek also aims for Splenda-like brand recognition by requiring its partners to highlight life'sDHA on packaging and in ads. Abramson singles out an "exciting" partnership with Dow AgroSciences that would put Martek's oil into a DHA-rich canola oil in development. This month, Martek announced supply deals that will bring its docosahexaenoic and arachidonic fatty acid formulations into Europe and China, whose emerging middle class offers growth opportunity for Martek, Abramson says (1"The Tan Sheet" Oct. 6, 2008, In Brief)