Stratum Nutrition Grows with Spanish Acquisition

Stratum Nutrition’s parent company, Novus International, Inc. has acquired the IQF Group, a Spanish producer of nutritional additives for the feed industry, as well as a range of carotenoids for foods, beverages and supplements. The Stratum product portfolio will be acquiring some of these carotenoids as new functional ingredient product offerings. IQF’s current portfolio of food ingredients consists of Betacol, a nature-identical beta-carotene; Canthacol canthaxanthin; and Lutecol, a natural lutein product. Stratum Nutrition will keep these brands in place as they merge into the existing functional ingredient side of the portfolio. In addition to new products, the acquisition will expand the global reach of Stratum and its presence in foods and beverages.