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China,Switzerland : Nestle ventures into Chinese medicine with pharma deal
Publish Date : 29-Nov-2012
The world\'s biggest food group Nestle is moving into traditional Chinese medicine by joining forces with Chinese pharma group Chi-Med, the Swiss group said on Wednesday.
The new entity, called Nutrition Science Partners (NSP), is to be owned equally by the two parties, Nestle said in a statement, without revealing any of the financials behind the deal.
NSP will research, develop, make and sell nutritional and medicinal products derived from botanical plants, it said.
The joint venture will also hand Nestle\'s Health Science division, which is handling the deal, access to Chi-Med\'s traditional Chinese medicine library, which with more than 50,000 extracts from more than 1,200 different herbal plants is one of the world\'s largest, the statement said.