Stevia World

Companies in the race to capture the European Stevia Markets got powerful boost when the European Food Safety Agency published their positive review of Stevia’s safety, ruling it safe for use in food products. With Stevia set to explode onto the European market a mere 6-9 months from now, companies looking for the competitive advantage [...]

Products like Zevia Soda, and Villars Maître Chocolatier’s Dark 70% cocoa bars were the first to use Stevia sweeteners in their respective product categories, and are now emerging as consumer favorites. 2nd Stevia World Europe showcases these stevia retail successes and more during the 2-day conference in Geneva on 18-19 May. During the recently concluded [...]

2nd Stevia World Asia is just a week away! This will be your last chance to register, especially if you are keen to network with the who’s who in the stevia industry. Refer to the pie-chart below, for profile of industry players and end users already signed up for the Shanghai meet. Join us at [...]

While the US market anticipated a stevia sweetened soda from Coca Cola or Pepsi Co after the much publicised GRAS notifications in end 2008, a company called Zevia was already in the market, with their stevia-sweetened zero calorie carbonated soft-drink product line. The initial product, launched in 2007 was not palatable to consumers with many [...]

Konstantinos Karayiannis works at the overseas department of Morita Kagaku Kogyo, where he is in charge of overseas sales, business development as well as communication & coordination issues related to the overseas operations. After graduating the Business & Administration Faculty of Piraeus University in Greece, he moved to Japan where he completed his post-graduate studies [...]

QingHai Long graduated from Jiangsu Agriculture University in 1981, majoring in Plant Conservation. He’s been working in Dongtai Agriculture Technique Guidance Station ever since he left school until today. He is currently the Deputy Head, in charge of Technical Research and Promotion and is engaged in the grains, cottons, oils, special grains and special food [...]

Shintaro Kimura is the President of B&L Corporation that trades Stevia products for agriculture and human health globally since 2006. He manages all the sales strategy of Stevia products. He is also the Executive Managing Director of JBB Stevia Laboratory Co., Ltd. that is the world pioneer of Stevia rebaudiana applications in non-sweetener sector since [...]

HB Wang is a Graduate in Pharmaceutical Botany and Traditional Chinese Medicine, obtained from the University of Nanjing in 1987. He also has MBA from the University of Nanjing in 1995. Previously, he was a manager of international department for Jinling pharmaceutical Co.,Ltd. He teamed up with Dr. Wu (Ph.D USA) and Dr.Li (Ph.D USA) [...]

Professor Dr. Hao is an Advisor to Jining Aoxing Stevia Product Co. He also teaches at the Guilin University of Technology. He obtained professional doctorate degree on Biological Resources Production from Ehime University, Japan in 1999, and completed his post doctorate research in Northeast Agricultural University, China. His research covers plant development and utilization of [...]

Dr. Shaohui Zhang graduated from Kagoshima University, Japan and got a doctorate in food science, and then he worked at Tanishow Food Research Institute. He has worked at Shanghai Bright Dairy and Mengniu Group as Technical Director and R & D Director for over 10 Years. In 2010, Dr. Zhang joined Doehler Food & Beverage [...]

Toshio Miyazawa graduated from Chiba University in 1998, majoring in Food Science. Thereafter, he’s been working as researcher in Flavor System & Technology Laboratory, Ogawa & Co., Ltd. His research focus is the measurement of both flavor and palatability based on psychophysics and physiology. Currently, one of his responsibility is to develop “Stevia Optimizer” as product [...]

Jie Liu is a Graduate from Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences. Since 2008 he joined USP-China as Standards Acquisition Manager. In his current role, Jie Works closely with various USP divisions to support the effort to acquire monographs and reference material for chemical drugs and products, excipients, food ingredients, and dietary supplements from key constituencies [...]

Zuoren Zhou has been involved in the stevia business for over 20 years, he’s successfully built many stevia production plants in China and overseas. Through continual research and improvement of stevia extraction, he’s able to design world standard stevia production line that’s recognized by domestic and international industry peers. He’s been successful in developing stevia [...]

Dr. Alan Jingjun Liao is the Board Director and CEO of Guilin Layn Natural Ingredients Corp. He is also amember of China National High-Tech food development council. Before Joining Layn, he has 8 years of working experience in P&G as senior food scientist and external business development manager. He graduated from Peking University, majoring in [...]

- Master’s degree of ecology from Sun Yat-sen University – 6-years’ experiences in market research – Projects handled: HIS, aspartame, stevia, saccharine, yeast extract, enzyme, sugar, starch, white biotechnology, etc. – Expertise: market research, benchmarking, financial analysis, competitive intelligence 2nd Stevia World Asia 2010 Shanghai Speaker Day 1 – Tuesday, Apr 20 09:10  Stevia’s Competitiveness & Prospects in China [...]