Forum Bioscience was founded in 1981, as a subsidiary of the Finnish Sugar Corporation (Cultor Ltd), to assist their international development and create new activities in the Pharmaceutical, Food and Animal Feed areas. The Cultor shareholding was purchased in 1991 by the Japanese company, Ajinomoto Co. Inc. of Tokyo. Ajinomoto has a strong research base and spends more than US $230 million per annum on research to develop new products and technologies for the Pharmaceutical, Food and Feed industries. Ajinomoto's worldwide sales amount to over US $9 billion per annum.

Forum Bioscience has maintained a steady increase in turnover and profit since their inception and currently has a turnover in excess of £120 million, with over 120 employees.

The Forum mission is to develop niche brands and industrial value added partnerships exploiting life sciences through dietary, therapeutic and functional excellence by constant interchange with customers, suppliers and consumers world-wide.

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