Euglena Co., Ltd. and Japan Foods Co., Ltd.
Certified by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry as "New Cooperation Support"
-Euglena About the development and sale of pet for liquid and semi-liquid products that compensate for the nutrient include

Euglena Co., Ltd.

Euglena Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, President: Mitsuru Izumo, hereinafter Euglena) is working with Japan Foods Co., Ltd. (hereinafter, Japan Foods) to develop and sell liquid and semi-liquid foods for pets that supplement nutrients including Euglena Was certified as "New Cooperation Support" by the Kanto Bureau of Economy, Trade and Industry of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry on February 4.

■ About "new cooperation support"
　"New cooperation support" promotes interdisciplinary cooperation of small and medium-sized enterprises, makes new businesses carried out by the collaborative body successful as businesses, and revitalizes small and medium-sized enterprises by producing successful cases as a model. This is the intended measure. The requirements for "new cooperation support" are that two or more SMEs from different fields are gathered and that they are conducting new business activities.

■ About "Development and sale of liquid and semi-liquid foods for pets containing Euglena and supplementing nutrients"
　In the pet industry, the development of foods that are easy to use and consider nutritional balance is required against the background of increasing awareness of pet health management. In addition, the pet market is said to have a market of 300 billion yen for pet food as a whole and 36 billion yen for dog snacks.
In this "new cooperation support", we have built a cooperative body with Euglena as the core company of business cooperation and Japan Foods as the partner company, and microalgae Euglena containing abundant nutrients ( We develop and sell pet foods that allow you to easily take in nutrients by blending powder of (Japanese name: Midorimushi) into liquid and semi-liquid pet foods.

　Euglena Co., Ltd. and Japan Foods are aiming to start selling pet food containing Euglena in the fall of 2013 in response to this "new cooperation support" certification.

<About Euglena Co., Ltd.>
Head Office / Central Research Laboratory: 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo University Entrepreneur Plaza 7th floor
Listed market:
Tokyo Stock Exchange Mothers
Business content:
In 2005, we succeeded in developing a large-scale culture technology for Euglena (Japanese name: Euglena), the world's first microalgae with excellent CO2 fixation ability. Using the microalgae Euglena, we develop and sell functional foods, cosmetics, etc., and conduct research for CO2 fixation, water purification, and biofuel production.

<About Japan Foods Co., Ltd.>
Headquarters: 203-1 Saraki, Nagara-cho, Chosei-gun, Chiba
Listed Market: First Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange
Business: Contract manufacturing and sales of soft drinks and other various beverages, contract manufacturing of alcoholic beverages, contract manufacturing of concentrated beverages for commercial use, manufacturing, sales, maintenance, leasing and rental of water supply machinery, etc., feed for pet beverages, etc. Manufacture and sale, etc.

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Euglena Co., Ltd. Public Relations and IR Division