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PureCircle Limited
17 May 2017
PureCircle Has Been Granted More Stevia-Related Patents Than Any
Other Company Globally in Each of the Last 5 Years.
-- Company Has Many Additional Applied-For Patents Pending.
-- Reflection of Company's Strong Innovation and R&D On
Great-Tasting Stevia Sweeteners and Stevia-Based Flavor
Enhancers.
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, May 17, 2017 - PureCircle (LSE: PURE),
the world's leading producer and innovator of great-tasting stevia
sweeteners for the global beverage and food industry, continues to
build on its strong patent protection, reflecting its advanced
innovation, research and development.
As a result of its cutting-edge work with stevia, PureCircle has
been granted more stevia-related patents than any other company
globally in each of the last five years.
In the year ended April 30, 2017, the company was granted 15 new
patents globally. In addition, during that one-year period, it
applied for 70 additional patents.
Those new patents and patent applications are in addition to the
company's already significant patent protection and activity. As of
April 30, 2017, PureCircle held a total of 72 granted patents, and
had 205 applied-for patents pending worldwide. These patents -- and
applied-for patents -- cover stevia-related products and
processes.
Beyond patents, and further enhancing its broad-based
intellectual property, the company has extensive trade secrets and
know-how.
PureCircle CEO Magomet Malsagov noted: "Our intellectual
property, including the hundreds of patents we hold and have
applied for globally -- and the additional patents for which we
shall apply -- reflect the strength and depth of our R&D and
the importance of that R&D to our success."
Given the growing global concerns about increases in obesity and
diabetes, beverage and food companies are working quickly to reduce
sugar and calories in their products, responding to both consumers
and health and wellness advocates. Sweeteners from the stevia plant
are becoming an increasingly important tool for these
companies.
With PureCircle's extensive R&D on the stevia plant and on
its use and applications, the company is quickly scaling up its
ability to produce the newer, innovative and great-tasting stevia
sweeteners which will work well in a broad range of beverages and
foods and enable an even greater degree of calorie reduction.
Enquiries:
Investors/Analysts
Magomet Malsagov, CEO
Email: malsagov@purecircle.com
Rakesh Sinha, CFO
Email: Rakesh.sinha@purecircle.com
Media
Carolyn Clark, Director of Global Marketing
Email: media@purecircle.com
Phone: 1 (630) 517 0812
Emma Kane (Redleaf), Media Relations
Email: media@purecircle.com
Phone: +44 (0)20 7382 4747
Notes to Editors
About PureCircle
-- PureCircle is the only company that combines advanced R&D
with full vertical integration from farm to high-quality innovative
stevia sweeteners.
-- The Company collaborates with farmers who grow the stevia
plants and with food and beverage companies which seek to improve
their low- and no-calorie formulations using a sweetener from
plants.
-- PureCircle will continue to: lead in research, development
and innovation; produce a growing supply of multiple varieties of
stevia sweeteners using all necessary and appropriate methods of
production; and be a resource and innovation partner for food and
beverage companies.
-- Founded in 2002, PureCircle is continually investing in
breakthrough research and development and it currently has 69
stevia-related approved patents and 200 pending.
-- PureCircle has offices around the world with the global
headquarters in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
-- PureCircle's shares are listed on the main market of the London Stock Exchange.
-- For more information, visit: www.purecircle.com.
About stevia
-- Given the growing global concerns about obesity and diabetes,
beverage and food companies are working responsibly to reduce sugar
and calories in their products, responding to both consumers and
health and wellness advocates. Sweeteners from the stevia plant are
becoming an increasingly important tool for these companies.
-- Stevia sweeteners provide clean, sugar-like taste. Like
sugar, stevia sweeteners are from plants. But unlike sugar, they
enable low-calorie and zero-calorie formulations of beverages and
foods.
-- Stevia leaf extract is a natural-based, zero calorie,
high-intensity sweetener, used by global food and beverage
companies as a zero-calorie alternative to sugar and artificial
sweeteners.
-- Stevia is a naturally sweet plant native to South America;
today, it is grown around the world, notably in Kenya, China and
the US.
-- The sweet-tasting parts of the stevia leaf are up to 400 times sweeter than sugar: stevia's high-intensity sweetness means it requires far less water and land than sugar.
-- Research has shown that the molecules of the stevia leaf are
present and unchanged in the dried stevia leaf, through the
commercial extraction and purification process, and in the final
stevia leaf extract product. All major global regulatory
organisations, across 65 countries, have approved the use of
high-purity stevia leaf extracts in food and beverages.
-- For more information on the science of stevia, please visit
http://globalsteviainstitute.com/
This information is provided by RNS
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