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Nestle Acquires IM HealthScience, Expands Medical Food Lineup In Latest US Consumer Move

 
• By Eileen Francis

Nestle Health Science acquires IM HealthScience, marketer of medical foods IBgard and FDgard as well as prebiotic and sleep aid supplements. The deal is second recent US consumer health addition for the firm after it said 2020 would be “‘more vigorous” year for acquisitions despite the COVID-19 pandemic.

Nestle FiberChoice
Nestle Health Science adds the Fiber Choice brand to its nutritional lineup with its IM HealthScience acquisition.

Nestle Health Science’s second US nutritional market acquisition in three months is IM HealthScience LLC, marketer of IBgard and FDgard medical foods and FiberChoice and REMfresh supplements.

IM HealthScience’s IBgard food capsules for irritable bowel syndrome, FDgard for management of the common meal-triggered condition functional dyspepsia and...

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