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Omega Protein Diversifies In Nutritionals, But Draws Short-Term Doubts

 
• By Dan Schiff

Omega Protein acquired Cyvex Nutrition and InCon Processing in the past 15 months to enter the dietary supplement market and vertically integrate its omega-3 fish oil supply chain. The firm gained from a one-time settlement payment in 2011, but saw underlying earnings fall.

[Omega Protein Corp.]’s chief executive says the fish oil and fish meal producer is on the right track with moves to diversify into human nutritionals and vertically integrate its supply chain, but some analysts question the firm’s short-term financial decision-making.

In the past 15 months, the Houston-based company acquired ingredient developer Cyvex Nutrition Inc. to enter the dietary supplement market and InCon Processing LLC, whose Illinois distillation facility gave Omega...

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