834-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 1, 2002 Catalyst International, Inc. To Focus On Biotech OMAHA, Neb. Dr. W.E. Julien, president and founder of W.E. Julien & Associates, an in ternational consulting and prod uct development firm founded in 1984, and founder in 1994 of Biovance Technologies, Inc., an nounced the information of a new subsidiary: Catalyst Inter national, Inc. Headquartered in Omaha, the firm offers total marketing ser vices for carefully selected cli ents who have innovative biotechnologies for domestic and foreign agribusinesses. In making the announcement, Julien said, “Catalyst Interna tional is uniquely positioned and uniquely qualified to help clients develop and expand new and ex isting markets for biotechnol ogy. Over the past four decades my associates and I have devel oped a valuable network of con tacts, friendships, and working relationships here and abroad. This network includes sales RALEIGH, N.C. At a press conference organized by Kings, Inc. and Pilot Therapeutics Holdings, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: PLTT.OB), Kings an nounced plans to introduce high-value, specialty crops grown in North Carolina for the food, biotechnology, and phar maceutical industries. In addition, Kings, a wholly owned subsidiary of Associated British Foods pic (FTSE: ABF), a U.K. company with $6.4 bil lion in annual revenues, an nounced the establishment of its global headquarters in Winston- Salem, N.C. Kings is a leader in the supply-chain management of high-value, speciality plant derived products, where sustain ability, assurety, continuity, and traceability are key drivers for its customers. Managing risk out of the supply chain and deliver ing cost-effective, turnkey solu tions for businesses dependent upon natural and inherently variable and unreliable raw ma terials is a core competence. Pilot, a Winston-Salem-based specialty pharmaceutical com pany with a portfolio of phar maceutical products and clinically validated over-the counter (OTC) medical food products, plans to be a primary beneficiary of the announce ment by Kings. “By collaborating with Kings, Pilot ensures superior and con sistent quality of the specialty oils that are the active ingred ients in Pilot’s botanical drug and medical food products,” said Floyd H. “Ski” Chilton, Ph.D., Pilot’s president and chief executive officer. “Kings’ rigorous, scientific ‘soil to oil’ approach to crop sourcing and extract delivery is required by and perfectly complements agents and distributors through out the Pacific Rim, North and South America, the United Kingdom, Europe, the Middle East, and Australia. “Marketing in the biotech age requires a holistic blend of com munications skills and techno logical proficiency. As part of a world economy, it also requires experience and sensitivity to the nuances of doing business in other cultures. “Our mission,” he said, “is to serve clients who have environ mentally friendly technologies for the commercial and compan ion animal industries, and to ex plain and market these technologies to the end users. To accomplish this mission we will use worldwide network, the ex perience, intellectual resources and creativity of our group of scientists, engineers, and mar keting professionals.” To learn more about Catalyst International, call Kathy Peter sen at (402) 571-5591. High-Value Specialty Crop Opportunities Exist Pilot’s rigorous pharmaceutical approach to natural product de velopment.” “Because of our synergies with Pilot and our belief that Pilot’s products have tremen dous market-growth potential, we are locating our global head quarters in Winston-Salem,” ex plained Andrew Hebard, Kings Inc., chief executive officer. “In addition, we recognize that the fertile ground of North Carolina could be conducive to growing specialty crops and with the support of the state’s proactive agricultural community, North Carolina is an appropriate place to build agri-based businesses.” He added that, in cooperation with North Carolina State Uni versity, Kings has contracted with North Carolina growers to plant test crops this spring, with the intention of planting signifi cant acreage of its specialty crops, including crops for Pilot’s products, next year. Kings con tracts approximately 250,000 acres of premium “identity pre served” crops directly with growers around the world. In troducing new high-value, speci alty crops to North Carolina could have a major impact in the agricultural growing and pro cessing community, Hebard pre dicted. State and local officials in cluding North Carolina Agricul ture Commissioner Meg Scott Phipps, North Carolina State University Chancellor Marye Ann Fox, Ph.D., former Gover nor James B. Hunt, now practic ing law at Womble Carlyle Sandridge and Rice, and S. Lawrence Davenport, chair of the not-for-profit Golden LEAF Foundation participated in the press conference, commend ing Kings and Pilot for their ef forts to positively impact North Conserves On-Farm Resources RACINE, Wis. The new Case IH EZ-Guide'“ lightbar is a tool to help save valuable input and management resources. The guidance system keeps farm equipment, like tractors and sprayers, precisely on course during field preparation, chemi cal and fertilizer application, air seeding, and other in-field oper ations. This handy helper is the newest element of the Case IH Advanced Farming Systems (AFS) line, adding an extra ele ment of preciseness to precision farming. “It uses differential GPS (Global Positioning System) in formation to display how far to the left or right an operator might be from his desired path,” explains Ken Lehmann, Case IH product training manager. The Case IH EZ-Guide light bar brings producers greater ac curacy and reliability at an affordable price, he says. “The bottom line is that you eliminate costly skips and overlaps, assur ing more even application of fer tilizers, chemicals and the like.” The lightbar package includes a high performance GPS an tenna/receiver, as well as a mag netic antenna mount, a suction cup for lightbar mounting, and a backlit keypad controller that can be conveniently mounted. “The Case IH EZ-Guide™ lightbar can be used under any conditions day or night, wind or rain, dust or fog with no deterio ration in performance,” he points out. “It allows you to Carolina’s economy. “The-state of North Carolina and the Department of Agricul ture and Consumer Services are honored to welcome Kings,” said Commissioner Phipps. “We believe that the strategic rela tionship between Kings and Pilot is a key example of how North Carolina’s great agricul tural traditions can be wedded to the state’s newer economy namely the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries ) to benefit the people of North Carolina, the nation, and the world. We look forward to hear ing more exciting news from Kings and Pilot in the months and years to come.” North Carolina-based Pilot Therapeutics is a development stage specialty pharmaceutical company that has developed a robust pipeline of pharmaceuti cal product candidates and clin ically validated over-the-counter (OTC) medical food products. A world leader in fatty acid metab olism, Pilot has pioneered Func tional Liponomics (TM), a proprietary, state-of-the-art re search platform combing fatty acid and genomic profiling, and has used this research to develop or acquire product candidates for asthma, coronary heart dis ease, cystic acne and cancer. Pilot is in the process of filing an Investigational Drug Applica tions (INDs) for its lead phar maceutical product candidates, PLT 1731 to treat asthma, and PLT 732 to treat elevated trigly cerides associated with heart disease, diabetes, and stroke. Its lead OTC medical food product, AIROZIN (TM), is the first clin ically proven OTC maintenance product for the dietary manage ment of asthma, a disease that afflicts approximately 17 million Americans. The company’s common stock is traded on the Case IH Guidance System extend your hours of operation, accomplishing more and being more productive each working day.” Besides lowering costs by re ducing skips and minimizing overlaps, the lightbar eliminates the need for foam markers and their associated ongoing costs. And, even more important, it can help reduce operator fa tigue. “As in all industries, many farms are suffering from a short age of skilled labor,” Lehmann notes. “The Case IH lightbar re duces operator stress and con centration required in the field, allowing for longer work days.” As with other Case IH AFS components, the GPS receiver can be moved to your combine to use with your yield monitor to generate yield maps. A separate harness is required for use with the Case IH AFS yield monitor. How difficult is its setup and configuration? “Actually, it’s very easy,” Lehmann says. “The only configuration needed is entry of the swath width.” The Case IH lightbar sup ports both the free WAAS system and the subscription based L-Band satellite differen Seeks Business Plans TROY, N.Y. The Empire State Venture Group, Inc. pro ducers of the Smart Start Ven ture ForumSM, announced that they are accepting applications to present at the second annual event Oct. 2-3 at the Albany Marriott Hotel in Albany, N.Y. “Last year the Smart Start Venture ForumSM attracted over 100 applications from tech nology companies from across the Northeast. We selected 36 of these companies to exhibit at the event and 27 companies made eight-minute presentations to the investor community on Oct. 2.” said Robert Buckley event coordinator. “To date, nine of these companies have received Over-the-Counter Bulletin Board under the ticker symbol “PLTT.OB.” Associated British Foods is an international food, ingredients, and retail group with annual sales of $6.4 billion and 34,000 employees. The group is one of Europe’s largest food companies with a wide range of successful brands and products in the food sector, and an increasingly strong presence in advanced re search and technology, where it is turning natural products into innovative ingredients for the food, personal care and pharma ceutical industries. A significant supplier of branded and non branded grocery products and a leading textile retailer, the com pany has major businesses in Europe, Australia, New Zea land, China, and the United States. Its wholly owned subsidi ary, Kings Inc., is a leader in growing and processing speci alty crops, including borage, evening primrose, and high erucic acid rapeseed, from ‘soil’ to ‘oil’ for the food, personal care, and pharmaceutical indus tries. For more information, visit ww.pilott.com or www.kings. co.uk. Smart Start Venture ForumSM tial correction, sold separately. An audible alarm warns the op erator when he or she drifts from the swath, crosses the headland or the correction signal is lost. Free software upgrades are available, and the lightbar car ries a two-year warranty. Case IH dealers can retrofit the system to the existing equipment in your tractor, sprayer or com bine. Case IH sells and supports a full line of equipment, parts, aftersales service and financial services through a network of more than 4,000 professional dealers in 150 countries. Farm ers who use Case IH equipment for crop and livestock produc tion count on these reliable and durable systems of products. Products include tractors in all sizes; combines; specialty har vesters for cotton, sugar and coffee; hay and forage equip ment;’ and a complete line of til lage, seeding and sprayers linked under the Advanced Farming Systems. CNH Global, N.V., manufacturer of the Case IH brand, is a global leader in the agricultural equipment, con struction equipment and finan cial services industries. some form of funding totaling more than $2O million. These in vestments range from $lOO,OOO to more than $4 million.” “The rigorous selection pro cess and the exacting training program through which we put the companies last year helped to attract interest in them.” said Prot. Frederick A. Provorny, di rector of the Science and Tech nology Law Center at Albany Law School and president of the Empire State Venture Group, Inc. ‘‘We’ve been following up closely with the companies that presented last year and many are in serious negotiations with interested sources of funding. In the aftermath of last fall and with the economy overall, few technology venture deals have received funding. Therefore, the fact that nine of our presenting companies have received fund ing is nothing short of phenome nal.” Companies wishing to present at the second annual event are encouraged to visit the Smart Start Venture ForumSM Website www.smartstartvf.com for completed details on apply ing. For additional information, contact Robert Buckley, coordi nator, at (518) 283-8890 or e mail him at bob@smartstartvf. com.
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