Date: 2014-07-03
Type of information: Company acquisition
Acquired company: AnalytiCon Discovery (Germany)
Acquiring company: BRAIN (Germany)
Amount: undisclosed
Terms: * On July 3, 2014, the biotechnology company BRAIN and natural product specialist AnalytiCon Discovery GmbH have formed a unique partnership in the rapidly growing health and nutrition sector. The AnalytiCon company shares were sold to BRAIN by previous long-term private shareholders and the investors Sobera Capital GmbH and KBB Kapitalgesellschaft mbH. Shareholders now are solely BRAIN and the management as well as some key personnel of AnalytiCon. Further details of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Details: Through its acquisition of the majority of AnalytiCon shares, BRAIN has become a leading international company network with unique worldwide access to an extensive range of natural products, microorganisms, plants, gene libraries and the associated technologies required for identification, development and production of products based on natural substances for consumers and business partners. The newly created network combines the complementary disciplines of biology and natural product chemistry. The company alliance also synergistically enhances access to natural resources as, in addition to the multitude of highly di-verse microorganisms, an extensive range of secondary metabolisms of plants that are a source of natural products and innovative production systems are made available. BRAIN and AnalytiCon aim to work alongside one another to find and implement the most eco-nomic solutions to emerging technical issues. The intensification of these joint activities is of particular interest in the health and nutrition sector, where \"all natural\" concepts combined with proven biological effects are increasingly important for both market players and end users. This will allow the two companies to strengthen their own develop-ments for the consumer market in the future. With this in mind, the companies have worked together since February 2013 as part of the strategic alliance NatLife 2020, which has allowed natural nutraceuti-cals and cosmeceuticals to be identified, developed and produced with the aim of improving formulations in the food and cosmetics market. The work of the 22 strategic alliance partners is planned to last 9 years and is supported by the Federal Ministry of Education and Re-search. The total funding amount is 30 million Euros. Intermediate- and long-term \"Natural Product\" businesses will therefore be built up, meaning both alliance partners can move forward on the value chain together.
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