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CONSULTING
2011
Marketing development Strategy consulting Partnership searches Information systems
MARKET ANALYSIS
Trends and perspectives Usage of ingredients Volumes value Manufacturers profiles Users opinion Regulation
INGREDIENTS COVERED
Major health ingredients
COUNTRIES COVERED
USA Japan Europe
APPLICATIONS COVERED
Functional foods Food supplements
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INTRODUCTION
OBJECTIVES MARKET Consumer trends Volumes & values per countries Evolution of each segments Prices of formula Marketing of formulas Market shares & distribution MANUFACTURERS Production volume Products portfolio Usage of ingredients & specifications Expectations towards new ingredients & new formulations Volumes of ingredients purchased Importers & traders INNOVATION New trends in formulation Review of patents & new researches ENVIRONMENT Regulation by country Trends Registration & Taxes A MARKET ING AP PROACH TO NUTRACEUT ICAL INGREDI ENTS
The nutraceutical market is now more than 15 years old in the US and Europe, but it still remains hard to predict. THE BARRIERS ARE HIGH SCIENCE: Because this is a mass market and because it addresses healthcare, assumption of health benefit must be substantiated with scientific evidence. This is not a simple task. The biological markers of either health improvement or risk disease reduction are not unanimously recognized, clinical studies are often long lasting and rarely bring strong evidences, efficient dosage and adverse effects often necessitate supplemental studies. Beside the hazardous course of product claim substantiation, to find the good product on the first place is not simple either. Health involves many complex and interactive functions, it is rare to find simple mechanism that involves simple or unique molecule. If the food industry wants to give eating a dimension of health it must be innovative and face subtle questions of physiology such as bioavailability (often a molecule needs a carrier or a protector to cross the intestinal barrier), molecule interaction that control biological function, or age related physiology (recall the Finland caroten study that have shown that this compound, apparently beneficial in diets, may be deleterious when taken in excess as the only source of carotenoids later in life). Regulation Health claim approval for functional foods is either difficult (USA, Japan) or yet impossible in Europe (even though a guideline for health claim substantiation have been proposed to the European community). The type of evidence and the amount of research that would support a health claim are not well defined (duration of the clinical studies, validation of the biological markers, dose response curves to define the efficient dosage and the adverse effects). Moreover, for the company that went through the health claim petition and get the approval, the claim fall in the public domain and any follower can use it. Food supplement benefit a smoother treatment in almost any country (but may be temporarily), regulation authority are more tolerant with the claim content and substantiation. Patent on ingredient is an interesting way to protect research and there are few products based on exclusive ingredients. In the large majority, products use free ingredients, therefore is easily copied, and thus provides little competitive advantage to the originator food company.
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SEGMENTATION CONSUMER IDENTIFICATION The consumer types remain to be found in order to be pleased. There are no good consumer studies that draw the nutraceutical consumer profiles. Moreover, the profusion of products with no clear differentiation and no clear evidence of efficacy do not help the consumers to make a choice. As a consequence, there is a little brand image, poor customer loyalty and possibly short product life cycle. Despite a difficult environment, the market is still expending. The Functional foods are estimated to account for 25% of all food products in the next decade. Today, the most important market is the US with US$ 19 bio. The continuing growth of the food supplement industry and a real expansion in some other segments such as soft drinks or luxury foods in Japan and the US, suggests that: the consumer wants to be in charge of his health Finally, there is always the risk that too much science kill the nutraceutical. Some sociologists think that the larger the distance between natural and processed food, the bigger the consumer's suspicion for the processed food. The scientific charge that comes with nutraceutical might dig an abyss between the consumer and the food. foods appear to be a good vector for the health demand functional foods will probably soon establish a new market standard more decisively away from existing practice. It is clear that this market is consumer driven and companies must carefully analyze consumer demand in the positioning of their products.
OBJECTIVES MARKET Consumer trends Volumes & values per countries Evolution of each segments Prices of formula Marketing of formulas Market shares & distribution MANUFACTURERS Production volume Products portfolio Usage of ingredients & specifications Expectations towards new ingredients & new formulations Volumes of ingredients purchased Importers & traders INNOVATION New trends in formulation Review of patents & new researches ENVIRONMENT Regulation by country Trends Registration & Taxes
The nutraceutical sector is still more a concept than a reality. It regroups food supplements, and functional foods. If food supplement is relatively homogenous and proposes an alternative to regular drugs, functional foods are completely heterogeneous and have not been very creative. There are few products clearly positioned on health with scientific evidence (like the phytosterolbased margarine, Benecol from Raisio or Nestl's LC1, the bifidogenic yogurt). The large majority of food companies have simply "functionalized" conventional products by adding some nutraceuticals, mainly vitamins, minerals or herbal extracts, rather than building up new food concepts of ingredients that share common health benefit do not ease product visibility. Moreover, in this peculiar sector, because the knowledge is built on complex scientific ground, consumer education is neither an easy nor a rapid task.
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Nutraceutical ingredients concern mainly nonalcoholic drinks. Innovation in this sector has moved towards enriched drinks, with energy drinks (and smoothies) on the one hand and relaxant drinks on the other hand (herbal drinks and teas). In the USA, the market for teas and juices is exploding with products launched by Hansen, Naked Juice, Jamba Juice and Snapple, integrating a wholerange of nutraceuticals such as ginseng, gingko, omega3, etc. Pure fruit juice drinks are showing growth rates of 25 to 30% per year. This sector has a strong interest in nutritional fibers, prebiotics, vitamins and minerals. A number of European companies are developing ingredients for functional beverages. Examples are MD Foods with hydrolyzed proteins based on casein and non dairy proteins (pea and soy) for both sports drinks and geriatric foods, DMV International with glutamin peptide that is believed to play a role in the prevention of fatigue and in negating overtraining syndrome in athletes. Nutraceuticals could also enter the market for alcoholic beverages (wines, spirits or beer). Wine PCOs and other flavonoids and polyphenols contained in seeds or fruits are natural antioxidants. Moreover, alcohol is a good solvent for many other nutraceutical ingredients. In Japan there are four types of health drinks : medicinal drinks, health drinks, functional drinks and balanced nutritional drinks. After a dramatic rise in 1989 and 1990 (+23% and + 25%, 390,000 million Yen) due to the boom of the dietary fiber functional drinks, the market then settled down and even regressed.
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OBJECTIVES MARKET Consumer trends Volumes & values per countries Evolution of each segments Prices of formula Marketing of formulas Market shares & distribution MANUFACTURERS Production volume Products portfolio Usage of ingredients & specifications Expectations towards new ingredients & new formulations Volumes of ingredients purchased Importers & traders INNOVATION New trends in formulation Review of patents & new researches ENVIRONMENT Regulation by country Trends Registration & Taxes
If safety standards are to remain high, and lead to the elimination of defaulting producers from the market, they do not truly appear as a competitive advantage factor between products. Nonetheless, in herbal extract, batch-to-batch variation of active principle concentration and possible overdose accident still does not receive adequate attention. Consumed to excess, nutraceuticals can lead to toxicity. Particularly, products that appeal to children such as confectionery must be the subjects of very careful consideration. Not mentioning the risk of overconsumption due to the redundancy of the same ingredient over the different food application. Furthermore, this is reinforced by the fact that, to fulfill customer expectations of a rapid visible effect, companies may be tempted to increase the dosages. DESIGNING NEW PRODUCT CONCEPT BASED ON CONSUMER ATTITUDES The design of new functional foods should respect a compatible image between the health functions targeted and the food product concept. For instance, heart failure prevention does not fit with ice cream. Today, it is clear that two main rules govern the functional food and nutraceuticals market: communication and regulation. As an example, a concept, which has been understood and exploited by some large food companies, is the idea of positive nutrition. This supposes that it is more comforting to communicate on health rather than disease, and by extension on the addition of healthy nutrients (enriched with vit E, calcium, antioxidants), rather
than on the reduction in bad nutrients (low fat, low sodium). Indeed, the consumer is happier to hear about health improvement rather than disease prevention or pondering the necessary decay of life. This explains, in part, the difficulty to launch new products of this latter type. As an example, the latest Food Marketing Institute Exhibition admitted a decrease of 30% in fat free products. Another dimension of the communication dilemma is related to the consumers understanding of products. The incorporation of less familiar nutrients increases both the risks taken by the food manufacturer and the necessity for additional marketing effort. Examples of failures of such food products are those using omega 36 fatty acids like for bread or eggs.
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OBJECTIVES MARKET Consumer trends Volumes & values per countries Evolution of each segments Prices of formula Marketing of formulas Market shares & distribution MANUFACTURERS Production volume Products portfolio Usage of ingredients & specifications Expectations towards new ingredients & new formulations Volumes of ingredients purchased Importers & traders INNOVATION New trends in formulation Review of patents & new researches ENVIRONMENT Regulation by country Trends Registration & Taxes
Nutraceuticals come as a rupture in the marketing of ingredients. In the regular food sector, ingredients are rarely brought to the front and marketing focuses on the final product. Therefore the food companies traditionally do consumer studies and communication. Nutraceutical ingredients affect health and concern directly the final consumer. In return, consumer expects to be informed on the effect and efficacy of the ingredients. It is a chance for ingredient producers. Public recognition could become a fantastic force for them. But to achieve this purpose, together with the need to provide scientific evidence, ingredient producers (alone or in combination with the food company) have to understand the consumer universe and develop a clear and simple message. Moreover, during our study, a number of food processors we have interviewed were waiting from the nutraceutical ingredient suppliers to offer science and guidelines for marketing the final product. TECHNOLOGICAL IMPORTANT PROPERTIES ARE ALWAYS
Soy proteins that have emulsifying qualities and have just received FDA recognition for their heart disease prevention properties are another illustration. Carotenoids also enter this category of double functionality ingredients, as they are preservative for both the food and the consumer. Work on new types/forms of ingredients enhancing, for instance, bioavailability, is a future development route. Other technology advances could also center on the process ability of ingredients, which must fit with both existing processes and other ingredients. Formulation is becoming an ever-important issue. SEARCHING FOR SEGMENTATION NEW CRITERIA OF
As far as functional foods are concerned today, it still is a traditional segmentation, with subsegments in each category (e.g. functional confectionery). Food supplements use physiological categories such as relaxation, mood, and memory booster. If the functional food segmentation replicates that of the food supplement industry, There is a risk to see a market over-segmented, and confusing for the customer. It is a major challenge for the functional food industry to find an operating segmentation that guide or facilitates the consumers choice and therefore opens the mass market to nutraceutical.
The must for nutraceutical ingredients are those that combine technological and health properties. In addition to health effects (or in the absence of a clear recognition by the consumers of health effect), an ingredient that is also able to improve the taste, the texture, the color or the preservation of the finished has serious chance to be successful. Bifidus yogurtbeing a prime example in Europe where it became successful because of its smooth taste rather than any other reason. This is also the case for oligofructose, that has texturizing qualities, a sweet taste and intestinal comfort qualities (bifidogenic).
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Since nutraceutical ingredient's target is health, the final consumer is directly concerned
Food ingredient producers Food companies
Final consumers
Low Effort on communication towards ingredients by the food industry Expectation of consumer towards information about ingredients Medium High
Technofonctionnal ingredients
Classical foods
Nutrifonctionnal Ingredients
Functional foods
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TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE OF CONTENT 2 INTRODUCTION 7 1- NUTRACEUTICAL: CONTEXT AND DEFINITION 8 2- OBJECTIVES 9 3- METHODOLOGY 9 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY-CONCLUSIONS 10 A MARKETING APPROACH TO UTRACEUTICAL INGREDIENTS 11 SUMMARY-CONCLUSIONS 20 1- CONTEXT 21 2- THE CONSUMER AWARENESS 22 3- GLOBAL MARKET FIGURES 24 Data per application 29 CANCER 33 BREAST CANCER 33 PROSTATE CANCER 34 CARDIO-VASCULAR DISEASE 34 CHOLESTEROL 37 CERLIAC DISEASE 37 3- GEOGRAPHICAL SPECIFICITIES 38 4- REGULATION 39 DEFINITION AND REGULATION ACTS (1/2) 39 DEFINITION AND REGULATION ACTS (2/2) 40 LABELING CLAIMS 41 PATENT PROTECTION AND CONFIDENTIALITY OF PROPRIETARY INFORMATION 42 APPROVAL PROCESSES AND MECHANISMS INCLUDING HEALTH CLAIMS AS APPLICABLE 43
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