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Strategies for Success: Nutraceuticals and Functional Foods
31 January - 1 February 2001
Strategies for Success: Nutraceuticals and Functional Foods
Everywhere you turn, it seems someone is talking about the latest answer to the healthcare problem of the moment. People are concerned about preserving their health and living healthier, not just longer lives. Add to that, a growing awareness of functional and fortified foods, and their impact on health, and you have a market ripe for expansion.

Nutraceuticals and functional foods represent one of the fastest growing markets in the world, with current consumptions estimated to be $70 billion with a projected rise to $500 billion by 2010 (NBJ 1999).

Large pharma companies, looking for diversification strategies have set up functional food or nutraceutical divisions as a method designed to exploit this growing market which is being coined in many papers as the ‘second generation’ of biotechnology.

For our part, as world-leaders in pharmaceutical conferences, SAE Media Group Pharma has identified Nutraceuticals and Functional Foods as a targeted sector for executives anxious to keep a close eye on industry development. As a key industry representative, you are aware of the commercial possibilities of this sector and how they could benefit your company. Couple this with the fantastic networking opportunities offered to all of our delegates and you can see that this year’s conference Strategies for Success: Nutraceuticals and Functional Foods is an opportunity waiting to be exploited.

The conference will explore issues in regulation in countries such as US, Canada and the EU. It will also address the impact of biotechnology, cost effectiveness of clinical trials, and strategies for successful marketing in this novel area. Indeed this idea of successful marketing is being compounded with an additional half-day workshop to take place on the 14th February entitled ‘The importance of product identity’ which will further address issues of nutraceutical and functional food branding.

Conference agenda

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8:30

Registration & Coffee

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9:00

Product positioning and branding

  • Brand visioning for functional foods
  • Strategy development for the implementation of a brand strategy
  • Employing innovative Internet strategies to build brand identity
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    9:30

    Case study: real case example illustrating successful/unsuccessful brand strategy

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    10:00

    Cyberbranding

  • Implementing savvy database marketing that will win brand recognition
  • Intelligently integrating media to enhance your relationship marketing
  • Successfully marketing goods, services and corporate cultures to attract and retain web customers.
  • E-mail brand campaigns built around consumer control
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    10:30

    Case study: real case example illustrating successful/unsuccessful brand strategy

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    11:00

    Morning coffee

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    11:15

    Product management

  • Creating significant product awareness
  • Market shaping
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    11:40

    Case study: real case example illustrating successful/unsuccessful product management strategy

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    11:50

    Development and implementation of European marketing events

  • Development of market entry strategies
  • Strategic PR planning
  • Comprehension of issues facing the nutraceutical industry
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    12:10

    Discussion and questions - review of the session

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    12:30

    Close of workshop

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    8:30

    Registration & Coffee

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    9:00

    Chairman's Opening Remarks

    Penny Viner

    Penny Viner, Director, The Health Food Manufacturers Association

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    9:10

    MARKET OVERVIEW

    Stewart Young

    Stewart Young, Senior Manager, Arthur D Little

  • Defining nutraceuticals: vitamin, mineral, bacteria, food and herbal supplements
  • The demographic market for dietary supplements: knowing your consumer
  • Functional foods: a niche market or standarised concept?
  • The recognised health benefits and the attitudes of the healthcare providers
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    9:40

    THE CHANGING FACE OF COMPETITION

    Ian Newton

    Ian Newton, Director, Business Development & Regulatory Affairs, Roche Vitamins

  • How has the nutraceutical market operated to date?
  • How are pharma companies positioned to move into the nutraceutical industry?
  • Transferable research skills
  • Health care knowledge and experience
  • Trends in new product development
  • Strategies for developing and marketing functional foods
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    10:20

    PROBIOTICS AND PREBIOTICS

    Prof Glenn Gibson

    Prof Glenn Gibson, Chair Microbiology, Food Microbial Sciences Unit, University of Reading, UK

  • The role of the gut flora in human nutrition
  • Defining prebiotics and probiotics
  • Historical aspects
  • Examples of use of pre and probiotics
  • Health benefits of consumption
  • Future directions of probiotics and prebiotics
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    11:00

    Morning coffee

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    11:20

    WADING THROUGH THE EVIDENCE

    Dr Richard Wyse

    Dr Richard Wyse, Chairman, Economic Healthcare Associates

  • Supporting consumers' desire to optimise health with dietary supplements, nutraceuticals and functional foods
  • What is the science supporting the benefits of supplemental nutrients and other compounds, and what is the basis of the growing consumer and professional interest?
  • How can the food industry utilise these products to be advantageous to both the consumer’s and industry advantage
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    12:00

    ENHANCING THE EFFECT OF NUTRACEUTICALS

    Dr Jerzy Zawistowski

    Dr Jerzy Zawistowski, Vice President, Functional Foods & Nutraceuticals, Forbes Medi-Tech

  • The growing demand for natural products
  • The advantages of enhancing natural products and inherent low potency of nutritionals
  • Stability of active ingredients in food systems
  • Case study: Phytosterols
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    12:40

    Networking lunch

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    14:00

    NATURAL NUTRACEUTICALS

    Dr Daniel Meyer

    Dr Daniel Meyer, President, Multiforsa

  • Evaluating the potential of wheatgerm as a functional ingredient
  • Nutritional prebiotic benefits of BIOGERM:
  • Vitamin E; Natural Folic acid; Vitamin B6; BIOGERM PB1
  • Commercialisation through a public campaign in co-operation with the food industry
  • The Swiss Folic Acid Campaign
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    14:40

    NUTRITIONAL GENOMICS

    Dr Gerald Rimbach

    Dr Gerald Rimbach, Lecturer, Human Nutrition, University of California Berkeley and University of Reading, U.K.

  • Antioxidant nutraceuticals and signal transduction
  • Applications of c-DNA arrays in nutrition research
  • Disease management
  • Ageing
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    15:20

    Afternoon Tea

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    15:40

    THE NOTION OF SAFETY

    Dr Nancy Rachman

    Dr Nancy Rachman, Director, Food Practice, Novigen Sciences

  • Patterns of dietary consumption, consumer behaviour and health status
  • Use of existing data for intake assessments
  • Problems and limitations
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    16:20

    REGULATORY ISSUES: EUROPE AND U.S.A

    Andrew Whiles

    Andrew Whiles, Director, Regulatory Affairs, Phytopharm

  • Legislative position
  • Labelling and claims
  • Registration procedures
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    17:00

    Chairman’s Closing Remarks and Close of Day One

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    17:10

    Networking drinks reception

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    8:30

    Re-Registration and Coffee

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    9:00

    Chairman’s Opening Remarks

    Prof David  Richardson

    Prof David Richardson, Consultant, DPR Nutrition (Formally Head of Nutrition Science & Communication, Nestle UK)

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    9:10

    MARKET DEVELOPMENT

    Dr John Troup

    Dr John Troup, Head of Worldwide Consumer Healthcare, Novartis Consumer Healthcare

  • Innovation
  • Consumer focus
  • Clinical support
  • Unique selling properties with value added
  • Price sensitive issues
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    9:40

    ARE REGULATORS LOOKING FOR CLINICAL INFORMATION?

    Dr Magdy Abdel-Malik

    Dr Magdy Abdel-Malik, Director, Venture Technology, Pfizer

  • Product development plans and strategy points for the commercial development and launch
  • Defining health targets
  • Product technology
  • Scientific and clinical evidences: safety and efficacy; what you must know in a regulated environment
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    10:20

    INTEGRATING BIOTECHNOLOGY AND PHARMACEUTICAL PRACTICES WITH CONSUMER PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT

    G.M. Miller MD, PhD

    G.M. Miller MD, PhD, Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, Galileo Laboratories, & Faculty, Stanford University Medical School

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    11:00

    Morning Coffee

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    11:20

    EFFICACY & DELIVERY

    Ian Lumley

    Ian Lumley, Head of Food Sciences, LGC Biosciences

  • Measuring the differences between synthesised and naturally occurring vitamins
  • Deciding on the method to fortify foods
  • Case study: Vitamin D; Folic acid
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    12:00

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  • Consumer pro-activity for prevention, self-diagnosis and mitigation
  • The convergence of food, pharma and supplement
  • Emerging functional food, nutraceutical and medical food alternatives
  • Integrating science and commercialisation
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    12:40

    Networking lunch

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    14:00

    To be confirmed

    Dr Tom Clough

    Dr Tom Clough, Principle, Health Business Partners

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    14:20

    CONSIDERING CONSUMER CONCERNS

    Prof Robert Pickard

    Prof Robert Pickard, Director-General, British Nutrition Foundation

  • Nutra-foods: a clever marketing invention?
  • Food policy approaches: structures and strategies
  • To what extent is the nutraceutical market created by manufacturers?
  • The reality of nutrition enhancement, false health claims
  • Is the Western diet in need of assistance?
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    14:40

    MARKETING NUTRACEUTICALS

    Dr Rene Blum

    Dr Rene Blum, Director, New Business Development, LONZA

  • Defining business
  • Defining attractive markets
  • Innovation (existing and new products)
  • Evaluation process
  • Success factors
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    15:20

    Afternoon Tea

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    15:40

    EXPANDING YOUR BUSINESS

    Dr Aedin Cassidy

    Dr Aedin Cassidy, Head of Women’s Health, Unilever Research

  • The sourcing decisions: should you make or buy your nutraceutical products?
  • The winning nutraceutical investments
  • Soya Phytoestrogens
  • Isoflavins
  • How well positioned is the pharmaceutical industry to contribute to this expanding market?
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    17:00

    Chairman's Closing Remarks and Close of Conference

    Workshops

    The Importance of Product Identity

    The Importance of Product Identity

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