This from Barry on October 7th -
We are in the process of preparing financial report for the six months to Sept 09 that will be released to NZX within the next few weeks.
Can't be long now - surely?
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This from Barry on October 7th -
We are in the process of preparing financial report for the six months to Sept 09 that will be released to NZX within the next few weeks.
Can't be long now - surely?
Blis has always come out in the last few days of the month. As we want to hear how Costco is going anyway, and Costco was talking opening in all 400 stores only about now, news at the end of the month is probably a good idea anyway.
Thanks for the GRAS info.
The last release from Blis about Costco also mentioned the half year results would be released in late November.
The new chewing gum isn't a very well kept secret:
http://www.foodproductdesign.com/new...-immunity.aspx
http://www.naturalproductsinsider.co...iotic-gum.aspx
http://www.foodingredientsfirst.com/...iotic-Gum.html
http://www.nutritionhorizon.com/head...m-Booster.html
http://www.nutraingredients-usa.com/...-immune-system
http://www.badbreathhope.com/
You know, I wonder if this new chewing gum isn't pretty big news. It just seemed curious when I first read it, because personally I don't like gum. But looking around the net, the stories all seem to say the same thing - chewing gum is a big market, and a rapidly growing market too, AND that breath and tooth health is a dominant reason for using gum. Well, K12 would be right there. Also, if they can do it with K12, it seems pretty likely it would work with M18 too. If, if the stuff tastes and feels normal when you chew it, I wonder if this perhaps has the potential to be a big hit? Further, it is at SupplySide West next week, where K12 did pretty well last year.
The new chewing gum is, of course, a result of R & D. So is K12, and recently M18 rolled out - also a result of R & D. We know Blis are big on R & D, but we know little of what they do. There are two projects we do know of, though, and I wonder what we might hear this time around?
Firstly, we recently got told of http://blis.co.nz/userfiles/file/BLI...%202009%20.pdf "specific work over coming months with a view to eventually bringing further BLIS probiotic products to the retail market in specific applications." Will we hear any more of this soon?
And we know of the Nestle relationship. On 28 March 2007, nearly 3 years ago now, we were told http://www.nzbio.org.nz/default.aspx?page=20&news=1390 that "Nestlé Nutrition and BLIS Technologies will work exclusively together to incorporate these probiotics into infant nutrition products", and that " the company will commit significant resources to the development over the next three years."
But note the words probiotics (plural) and products (plural).
Then, two years ago, on 21 September 2007, http://www.infonews.co.nz/news.cfm?l=81&t=107&id=6535 we were told, "New Zealand biotechnology company BLIS Technologies and Nestlé Nutrition, a unit of Nestlé SA, have agreed to broaden their research and development collaboration announced on 28 March 2007. The focus of the research and development continues to be upper respiratory tract infections in infants. " ... "Nestlé Nutrition and BLIS Technologies will therefore broaden their research to include probiotics other than BLIS K12 which formed the basis of the initial agreement. " ... "BLIS Technologies will be responsible for screening for suitable probiotics in its collection."
Since when we have heard little of the Nestle arrangement, except that it is regularly mentioned, suggesting we should not be ignoring it. The shareholder presentation 2009 http://blis.co.nz/userfiles/file/BLI...0July%2009.pdf said, "anticipated product launch 2011, subject to successful outcome". The initial 3 year research would theoretically complete by March, four months from now.
Will we hear any more of this or any other research results this time around?
A web page which keeps appearing further and further up the Google list of 'recent results' for one of my Blis K12 searches is on the web site of one of our posters (not my job to say who.) It made it to the first page of results today - people spend fortunes trying to do that. Anyway, good on you.
Sheessh, that is just teasing us Simla! At least provide a link as I have run a couple of searches and can't find anything that fits your description!
Is http://www.k12.co.nz new?
Sorry, Emearg! It's not a major page, but he's put up a small promo on his otherwise-unrelated web site. Not trying to tease, just congratulating him on gumption, but it isn't for me to say. Sorry if I seem to tease.
That web site you found has been there a while I think. It links to the healthstore.co.nz, which seems to be part of a number of websites written in other languages, such as http://www.healthstore.jp/ja/cp/%E3%...8F%A3%E8%87%AD which already seem to sell Blis into other countries. I've often wondered how much trade they do for Blis.
By the way, with that stuff on Nestle - that would count as a food product, wouldn't it? I wonder if that was originally part of the incentive for the high speed with which Blis have been looking for regulatory permission around the world?
Frutatrom have a Canadian distributor ready to go...
http://www.ckfoods.com/nutrition.html