Like other businesses, nutrition industry companies have felt the squeeze of the global credit crunch over the last two years. As President Obama acknowledged recently, for small businesses without access to capital, “It's been difficult to finance inventories, make payrolls or expand.” Although investment activity stalled with the recession, a nexus of financiers — angels, venture capitalists and corporate strategic partners — remain committed to providing an injection of growth capital to the right companies.
The hard part, of course, is finding and then attracting the interest of such investors. “We...
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