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Investor Benefits
Nutrition Capital Network (NCN) Investor Meetings are the nutrition and health & wellness industry’s premiere events for strategic and financial investors. Our full-day meetings are held in the Spring (New York or Washington, DC) and the Fall (San Francisco or Los Angeles).
All Investors in attendance:
• View 20-25 Presenting Companies in a single day (selected and coached by NCN Principals).
• Request one-on-one meetings.
• Receive a Workbook with detailed business plans, charts, and contact information.
• Network with seasoned investors in the nutrition industry.
• Establish early contact with potential investment candidates.
• See product trends emerging early on in organic and natural food, dietary supplements, functional foods, nutritional ingredients, and other nutrition industry and green product segments.
Year-Round Benefits:
NCN adds value to the Investor experience throughout the year by providing:
• Webinars and phone conferences
• Access to the NCN transaction database and market reports
• Broader access to the applicant pool
• Custom searches and due diligence support
• Survey results and research
NCN meetings are attended by strategic investors from the food, pharmaceutical and ingredient supply industries; growing fiirms or acquirors from the natural & organic food and supplement industries; professional investors from private equity and venture firms focused on nutrition, health & wellness, consumer products, agriculture and biotechnology; and individual or angel investors.
2013 Cornerstone Investor Membership benefits:
* Up to four attendees from your firm at 2013 NCN investor meetings with advance profiles and optional phone preview on presenting companies
* Access to the applicant pool for the 2013 meetings: NCN will share summaries of all 70-90 candidate presenter companies evaluated after each meeting, as well as the completed segmented and searchable database of firms (with profile and contact information) evaluated by NCN since 2007.
* Access to the NCN Transactions Database (both M&A and financings in 6 segments of the nutrition and health & wellness industry) and selected quarterly market research updates based on NCN’s ongoing relationship with Nutrition Business Journal, investment banks and other analysts.
* A general introduction at NCN meetings, status as Cornerstone Investor on NCN’s website, signs, events, emails and marketing materials to promote your company and its interests in the industry, including a full-page profile with logo and contact information in each investor meeting book
* Full contact lists of all NCN meeting attendees and other members
* An NCN partners meeting or phone call to fully understand the specific investment, partnering, technology or acquisition criteria of each group within your company
* Introductions to specific companies that meet your criteria on an ongoing basis or selective searches in specific segments
* Access to NCN principals for support or perspective on investments, strategy, contacts, exits.
Find out how to become an NCN Cornerstone Investor or Sponsor
NCN Cornerstone Investors
2013 Members: Abbott Nutrition, Alliance Consumer Growth, Alticor, Avrio Ventures, BASF, Bayer, Bruckmann Rosser Sherrill, BYB Brands, Cargill, Castanea Partners, Catterton Partners, VEB/Coca-Cola, Danone, DSM, DuPont Nutrition & Health, E&A Industries, Flagship Ventures, Herbalife, The Hershey Company, Ingredion, Inventages, The Kellogg Company, MidOcean Partners, MOM Brands, Nestlé, PepsiCo, Pharmavite, Sanitarium, Soho Flordis International, Seventure, Sherbrooke Capital, Stratum Nutrition/Novus, Suan Farma, Tate & Lyle Ventures and Unilever.
Meeting Schedule for 2013
NCN XII, April 29-30, 2013, New York City
NCN at SupplySide West, November 13, 2013, Las Vegas
NCN XIII, Oct. 28-29, San Francisco


