Stevia World

The second edition of the highly successful Stevia World 2009 conference, Stevia World Europe will convene in Frankfurt on 18 November 2009. Stevia World 2009, the world’s first international Stevia Industry conference, welcomed participation from over 150 key Stevia stakeholders from 31 countries in May 2009. Supported and sponsored by leading Stevia producers including Pure Circle, [...]

Stevia World 2009 gave due recognition to stevia as sugar substitutes in food and pharmaceutical products. Held on 14-15 May in Shanghai, it was the first global stevia event in Asia and received overwhelming response and rave reviews. An international panel of speakers from Asia Pacific, Europe and Africa pinpointed the global opportunities in Stevia [...]

SteviaWorld is creating a lot of buzz in the F&B sector! We all know Stevia as one of the top ten trends to watch in the Packaged Foods industry! Now the world’s top F&B companies are confirming this by sending key representatives to attend SteviaWorld on 14-15 May in Shanghai! We are excited to announce [...]

Stevia has been named one of the 2009′s top ten trends to watch in packaged goods by the Gourmet Retailer. The natural, no-calorie sweetener is regarded as the holy grail of sweetener sector. With the opening of US market and more approvals in the EU countries anticipated, the demand for stevia is bound to exceed [...]

Demand for Reb-A and Stevia sweeteners will spike in the near future and Growing Stevia has become a hot new opportunity for those in the agribusiness sector. However, relatively little is know about Stevia and its potential, mainly because there is a dearth of information available publicly. To address this glaring gap, we put Mr. [...]

FLORHAM PARK, N.J., March 30, 2009 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — Following the launch of several high profile consumer product brands containing PureVia(TM)Reb A, PureCircle, the world’s leading producer of Reb A, has been invited to share current insights on its rapidly developing global stevia supply chain at Stevia World 2009 on May 14-15, in Shanghai. [...]

There’s a lot being said about Stevia, but little available in terms of Solid market figures and concrete projections. That’s why we were so excited to discover this fantastic presentation by William Mitchell, CFO of PureCircle, made at the 2nd Agriprods Forum last year in November. Mr. Mitchell shared some ground breaking revelations on the [...]

China is the world’s largest Stevia producer and exporter, making China the logical choice to host the inaugural SteviaWorld conference. Stevia is grown in 4 major provinces in China- Jiangsu, Anhui, Shandong and Heilongjiang. Their combined stevia cultivation area is approximately 200,000 Mu or 13,400 Ha, which produces about 40,000 tons of stevia leaves every [...]

Over the past few decades, the regulatory environment for stevia has been difficult. Globally, scientific bodies and stevia companies have lobbied regulatory authorities for the approval of stevia as a food and beverage ingredient. Many countries only allowed stevia to  be consumed as a dietary supplement or not at all. In fact, up until 2008, [...]