In Brief: Fuisz Technologies
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
Fuisz Technologies: Chantilly, Va.-based drug delivery developer acquires Pangea, a Roswell, Ga.-based direct-to-consumer distributor of nutritional supplements and skin care products, Fuisz announced May 21. Terms were not disclosed. The acquisition of the privately-held company, with its national network of approximately 2,000 distributors, "advances Fuisz' strategy to widen" its distribution network, the firm says. The first Fuisz product to be marketed by the Pangea sales force will be a chewy calcium supplement, scheduled to be introduced in late September. The 1,250 mg calcium product incorporates Fuisz' proprietary nougat format. Pangea, which is headed by founder and CEO Ron Mahan, has annual sales of roughly $2 mil...