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B.R.A.I.N. Biotechnology Research And Information Network AG: Two major food categories have joined DOLCE

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B.R.A.I.N. Biotechnology Research And Information Network AG: Two major food
categories have joined DOLCE

16.11.2016 / 08:30
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Two major food categories have joined DOLCE

Zwingenberg, Potsdam (Germany) and Lestrem (France), November 16, 2016: The
bioeconomy company BRAIN AG (ISIN DE0005203947 / WKN 520394), the natural
product specialist AnalytiCon Discovery GmbH and Roquette, a global leader
in specialty food ingredients from plant-based raw materials, announced
today that two major food categories have already joined the recently
published strategic DOLCE partnership. This newly created partnership was
started in August 2016 and offers consumer product goods companies a
platform providing expert know-how to develop and produce natural
sweetening solutions in order to achieve sugar- and calorie reduction in
diverse food and beverage categories.

The three DOLCE research partners together have been in discussions with
many of the global Fortune 500 consumer product goods companies ("CPGCs")
representing the largest food and beverage brands.

Already two food categories, namely "morning foods" and "snacks", have
joined the program and committed to DOLCE. The interest of such CPGC
members is to integrate newly developed, innovative, and all natural DOLCE
sweet solutions into their end products to address the critical need for
sugar reduction in the global nutrition market. Further financial details
are not disclosed.

With the recent win of two global food categories, the DOLCE initiative
proves that it can cover the complete value chain from the discovery &
development (BRAIN and AnalytiCon) over the formulation & production
(Roquette) to the marketing & sales (CPGCs) of novel, natural sweet
solutions for expanded food and beverage segments. Further CPGCs are
invited to join the DOLCE Program as members in selected application
fields.

According to a study of Lux Research from January 2016, sugar substitutes
today account for 22% of the total sweetener market, yet natural sweetener
alternatives represent only 1%. Along with trends towards natural and
healthy ingredients, these natural alternatives have the potential to
replace between 2% and 25% of total sucrose across product categories like
bakery and cereal, beverage, and confection.

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About BRAIN

BRAIN is one of Europe's leading technology companies in the field of
industrial biotechnology, the core discipline of Bioeconomy. As such, BRAIN