Cognis Nutrition and Health
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
Henkel Nutrition and Health Group, a division of Henkel Corp., is renamed Cognis Nutrition and Health as of Jan. 1, 2000. The company adopted the new name and logo under new VP Michael Sundos, PhD, with the hopes of reworking its image as a customer-oriented manufacturer; Cognis comes from the Latin root "cognoscere," meaning to realize or notice. The division is now concentrating on marketing products with lutein, including its Xangold brand and Whitehall Robins' Centrum and Centrum Silver, for which Cognis supplies lutein esters. The division also plans to release Prevastein, a product containing soy isoflavones, soon in collaboration with Central Soya