NattoPharma ASA Enters Vitamin K2 Partnership with Danisco

NattoPharma, headquartered in Oslo, Norway, sells and develops the natural vitamin K2 product MenaQ7. The company expects to achieve a turnover of NOK80-90m in 2008.

09/07/08 Norwegian vitamin K2 products supplier NattoPharma ASA has signed a letter of intent regarding a global partnership agreement with the Danish food ingredients group Danisco A/S. The proposed agreement relates to NattoPharma's vitamin K2 products brand MenaQ7.

NattoPharma, headquartered in Oslo, Norway, sells and develops the natural vitamin K2 product MenaQ7. The company expects to achieve a turnover of NOK80-90m in 2008.

MenaQ7 provides Natural Vitamin K2 as an extract of natto, a fermented soy food from Japan. Natto is particularly rich in the highly bio-available form of vitamin K2 called menaquinone-7 (MK-7). MenaQ7 provides the only commercially available Natural Vitamin K2 with guaranteed actives and stability, clinical substantiation and international patents awarded and pending.