Sports & Performance Nutrition 2011 Conference

Partners & Exhibitors

Maxinutrition is the parent company of Maximuscle, Maxifuel and Maxitone. Maxinutrition is Europe’s leading sports nutrition company with 15 years of expertise in this field. The company is a pioneering force in the sports nutrition market and has helped shape the industry, being the first company to introduce a rigorous drug screening programme to all its products. Maxinutrition develops all products with leading sports nutritionists and they are designed to support the athlete every step of the way to help them achieve their sporting goals. The products are a combination of a wealth of sports science and quality ingredients. Maxinutrition works with over 1,000 elite athletes, National Governing Bodies and professional sports teams including England Hockey, British Triathlon, British Judo, the England and Wales Cricket Board, the Welsh Rugby Union as well as individuals such as European gymnastics champion Daniel Keatings, Euan Burton, Lee Byrne, Courtney Lawes, Stuart Broad, Jermaine Jenas  to name a few.  In November 2010, they announced a unique research and development partnership with UK Sport to investigate the role that nutrition has in improving athletic performance through the training process. From this the team hope to develop a range of bespoke products designed to optimise the performance of, and for sole use by, British athletes in the build-up to 2012. For more information, visit www.maxinutrition.com.

Successful key players across the food industry choose DMV as their preferred supplier for dairy proteins - a healthy and natural source of protein - because we deliver a reliable supply of consistent high quality products. That's why our dairy proteins are used to create nutritious and delicious products that are enjoyed by billions of people around the world. As part of FrieslandCampina, we developed a huge knowledge in application of milk protein ingredients in a wide variety of food and nutrition products. We look forward to sharing that knowledge with you!

The GELITA Group companies manufacture highest quality gelatine under the trade name GELITA®. This gelatine is used in a variety of applications in the food, photographic and pharmaceutical industries. In addition, a whole range of special gelatine products is available for specific applications.
As innovative market leader and competent partner, we market this unique product on a worldwide basis and also provide high-quality technical and applications support to our customers. In this way, we are able to help our business partners to develop new products.
In other words, we are much more than just a supplier of raw materials.

Roquette is a private family business. Fortified by more than 75 years of experience, Roquette is the world’s leading polyol manufacturer and one of the top starch processors (No 2 in Europe and No 4 worldwide). The Roquette Group, present throughout the whole world through 30 establishments including 18 production sites, employs over 6000 staff of which 3600 in FranceIn 2008 it achieved a turnover of over 2.5 billion euros and processes every year 6 million tonnes of renewable raw materials (maize, wheat, potatoes, peas and tomorrow micro-algae) in a range of over 650 products derived from starch for the human and animal nutrition, paper-board, pharmacy-cosmetology and biochemistry industries.Keen to assert its independence and confirm its position of leader while at the same time innovating and diversifying, the Roquette Group has chosen to develop along two strategic axes: vegetal-based chemistry and nutrition-health. To this end, it invests over 40 million euros a year in R&D and more than 10% of its turnover in production facilities and equipment. Roquette’s sustainable innovation strategy involves engineering and developing ingredients, products and applications that concurrently address ecological, economic and societal challenges.

ESSNA is the voice of the specialist sports nutrition sector in Europe. We represent the interests of the industry and its consumers in dialogue with the key decision-makers of the European Union. We work to reduce the threat of over-burdensome regulation and to maximize the benefits of market harmonisation. We lobby hard in the European Parliament, maintain close links with officials of the European Commission, and are widely recognized as an authoritative and influential voice in debates on the role and regulation of sports nutrition. Our members include some of the biggest, and some of the smallest brands. To find out how you can play your part in defending and promoting our industry, visit www.essna.com.

drink Technology + Marketing is one of the leading horizontal magazines for the global beverage industry market. Published by the specialist Dr. Harnisch Verlag from Nuremberg, Germany, the magazines focuses on Ingredients, Processing and Packaging and includes feature articles, interviews and application reports as well as special topics of regional interest and trends in the beverage markets. Readers are executives and decision-makers in the brewing, dairy, juice and mineral water industries, manufacturers of non-alcoholic drinks, wine growers and bottlers. There is an increasing overlap in these fields and subjects like sports drinks, wellness beverages and other trends are also covered regularly, from both a technology and a marketing perspective. Dr. Harnisch Verlag also publishes Food Marketing & Technology and Wellness Foods Europe in English, as well as Food Technologie, Getränke! and the newly launched Vitalstoffe, for the supplement market, in German. The successful ‘reader-friendly’ style is constant throughout all the magazines.

Functional Sports Nutrition is driven by the recognition of the new and expanding market for sports nutrition products and services. Focusing on two key areas of sports nutrition: the improvement of performance, and recovery and regeneration from training and competition, Functional Sports Nutrition is only available to sports professionals. To subscribe, telephone +44 (0) 1279 810080 or log on to www.fsnmag.com.