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SponsorsThe organisers gratefully acknowledge the support of the following organizations: Platinum SponsorsBiosystemes • Compusense Inc. • Campden BRI • Givaudan • JRA, J. Reckner Associates, Inc. • Kerry • Kraft • Sensient Food Colours • Symrise • Unilever • Vitagora Gold SponsorsKerry • P&K Research • Proctor & Gamble Silver SponsorsEuropean Sensory Network • Logic8 BV • Sensonics, Inc. • Sensory Computer Systems • Takasago Platinum SponsorsBiosystemes
Biosystèmes designs and markets FIZZ, its range of software solutions, to answer the needs in sensory and consumer testing, including test design, judge management, automated data collection (on screen or paper forms), and integrated analyses. Distributed and supported directly and through its distributor network, over 600 FIZZ licenses are used in the industry and academia worldwide. For further information: Andre Arbogast
Compusense Inc
Compusense® is recognized internationally as the world’s leading developer of software for sensory and consumer science. Compusense offers a full range of software products including Compusense® at-hand, our sophisticated, science-based software for web-based data collection. Compusense® five with FCM® lives up to its accolades of being reliable, consistent and easy to use. Compusense® FCM® is the premiere descriptive sensory training method. Compusense also conducts contract research at a state-of-the-art facility in Guelph, Canada. Sensory specialists perform consumer and market research, train panelists, and manage fieldwork using Compusense software products. Compusense has hundreds of clients all over the world. For further information:
Campden BRI
Campden BRI is the UK's largest independent membership-based organisation carrying out research and development for the food and drinks industry worldwide. It is committed to providing industry with the research, technical and advisory services needed to ensure product safety and quality, process efficiency and product and process innovation. Facilities include three fully equipped food processing halls, product and process development facilities, a substantial, leading-edge sensory analysis suite, a consumer test centre and extensive research and analytical laboratories covering microbiology, hygiene, chemistry, biochemistry and microscopy. The Consumer & Sensory Services Department offer a wide range of services, which provide our clients with tailored business solutions that utilise sensory testing and/or qualitative and quantitative consumer research. For further information: Campden BRI
Givaudan
Givaudan's vision is to be the Essential Source of Sensory Innovation for its customers, driven by a mutual passion for excellence. Leading Sensory Innovation™ describes Givaudan's ability to bring together nature, creativity, science, technology and business, reinforced through these capabilities: Sensory Intelligence: pioneering in-depth, consumer understanding supported by unique testing methodologies and market expertise. Sensory Creation: inspired, focused and diverse creativity enhanced by an applied knowledge of all customer products categories and supported by a cutting edge palette of ingredients. Sensory Technology: an industry driver in science and technology in support of unique product applications and new market opportunities. Sensory Service: unparalleled ability to deliver products and services globally, grounded in quality, reliability and timeliness, supported by regulatory expertise. Sophie Davodeau Email: sophie.davodeau@givaudan.com
JRA, J. Reckner Associates, Inc.
JRA Consumer Insights provides leading edge custom research services. Our research teams provide actionable reports through first being your "thinking partner" and then by creating a research plan that addresses all the details and logistics required to provide reliable data. Industry expertise includes: Beverages (including Alcohol), Durable Goods, Food, Healthcare, Household Products, and Personal Care Products. For more information: Cindy Ward PhD, Senior Vice President
Kerry Ingredients and Flavours
Kerry is one of the leading and most technologically advanced manufacturers and innovators of application specific food ingredients in the world, working in partnership with multinational food manufacturing and foodservice companies. Kerry has established a global processing and technical network with an ingredients portfolio extending to some nine thousand products to food processor and foodservice markets in over 120 different countries. Food ingredients are central to the taste, texture, appearance and performance of food and beverage products. As such, ingredients drive development of new menu items and more varied and interesting products. Through its unique understanding of end use applications, aided by state of the art sensory evaluation and consumer insight, Kerry derives maximum synergies from its core technologies – creating value for customers by way of new products, product improvements, cost reductions or process development. For further information: Sheryl Karow Janet Colwill
Kraft Foods
The vision of Kraft Foods is helping people around the world to eat and live better. At various R&D Centers of one of the world's leading food and beverage companies, the linkage of consumer acceptance and sensory evaluation has it’s home, utilizing innnovative methods to understand consumer needs and translating them into successful products. For further information: Email: jzach@krafteurope.com
Sensient Food Colours
The Sensient Color Group incorporates a global operating food color division manufacturing natural colors and coloring foodstuffs as well as synthetic colors. As a global corporation with strong local roots, Sensient operates in over 30 countries. In Europe, Sensient entertains three production facilities, one of them in Italy, where we are the largest producer of Red Natural Colours Anthocyanins. Contact details:
Symrise
Symrise is a global supplier of fragrances, flavorings and active ingredients for the perfume, cosmetics and food industry. Its sales of €1.27 bn in 2007 place the company among the top four in the international flavors and fragrances market. Headquartered in Holzminden, Germany, Symrise is represented in more than 30 countries in Europe, Asia, the United States and South America. At Symrise we combine an awareness of consumer trends with cutting-edge technologies and focus on sensory and consumer science to deliver innovative products that have additional practical value for the consumer. Symrise – always inspiring more… For further information: Dag Piper Clemens Tenge Web: www.symrise.com
Unilever
160 million times a day, someone somewhere chooses a Unilever product. From feeding your family to keeping your home clean and fresh, our brands are part of everyday life. With 400 brands spanning 14 categories of home, personal care and foods products, no other company touches so many people's lives in so many different ways. Our brand portfolio has made us leaders in every field in which we work with much-loved world favourites such as Lipton, Knorr, Dove and Omo. We're constantly enhancing our brands to deliver more intense, rewarding product experiences. We invest nearly €1 billion every year in cutting edge research and development and in our R&D centres around the world we explore new thinking and techniques to help develop our products. To put products on the market we use consumer and sensory research to deliver brilliant products and packaging that excite and satisfy consumers. As a company we also believe that the very business of conducting business in a responsible way has a positive social impact. We create and share wealth, invest in local economies and develop people's skills – both inside our organisation and in the communities around us. Today Unilever employs 174 000 people in 100 countries worldwide, and supports the jobs of many thousands of distributors, contractors and suppliers. For more information, go to: www.unilever.com
Vitagora®: the Taste-Nutrition-Health cluster
VITAGORA® Taste-Nutrition-Health is a French food industry cluster that develops innovative R&D projects uniting manufacturers and researchers and using their network of R&D expertise at all the stages of the food/nutrition production chain. At the crossroads of Food and Health, VITAGORA® underlines the importance of the functional interactions between taste-sensory and the nutritional qualities in food. Contact: Gold SponsorsKerry Group
Kerry Ingredients is a food company. More accurately, we are a food technology company. We make the ingredients that go into the foods you eat everyday. We call what we do "Application Specific Ingredients”. We specialize in customer-designed food technologies, things that go beyond typical ingredients or additives. Most often, our products are multiple-ingredient food components that deliver specific taste, appearance, texture or nutritional characteristics to our customer's finished products. Which still begs the question: what do we make? The answer is that we make a little bit of everything that goes in great food. Everything from gourmet breaders that go on appetizers, to organic seasonings for snacks, to cheesecake bits for ice cream, and high-protein soy powder for energy bars. We also make more than a few finished products. Our new Foodservice division makes a variety of products that we sell directly to restaurants. In fact, there's a very good chance that the flavored syrup that went in to your coffee this morning was made by Kerry. Our customers are quite literally the world's biggest and best-known retail and wholesale food manufacturers. They are the blue chip companies of the industry, who do business with us because of the value, innovation and creativity we offer them. They come to us because we're constantly evolving and expanding our range of products, and because we combine global assets and capability with small company service. In an industry not always known for excitement, we're the company that's always looking ahead. And that's what makes us eager to get to work in the morning. For further information: Sheryl Karow
Peryam & Kroll Research
Peryam & Kroll Research, founded 1957, is a full-service market research firm; Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, New York offices; special expertise in sensory techniques, question design, scaling methods, custom/experimental design; 100+ project directors, information systems specialists, food scientists, statisticians, psychologists; 200+ part-time employees. Comprehensive qualitative and quantitative research services are backed with state-of-the-art facilities and a national database of consumers for pre-recruiting. Web: www.pk-research.com
Proctor & GambleInformation on this sponsor will be added to this site shortly Silver SponsorsEuropean Sensory Network
The European Sensory Network was founded in 1989 to meet the challenge of the rapidly developing science of sensory analysis within Europe. The European Sensory Network brings together 19 member organisations acting in 15 European countries, and two non-European countries. This international forum was created for discussion and collaboration among the best research institutions involved in sensory and consumer sciences and to ensure methods were practical and accessible to the industry. All ESN members have a high standard of competence in sensory analysis within their respective countries. The activities of the ESN cover the following areas:
For more information contact: Emilía Martinsdóttir Email: emilia.martinsdottir@matis.is
Logic8 BV
LOGiC8 provides EyeQuestion®; the most flexible and user friendly software for sensory and consumer research. With 6 years of experience in web-based sensory and consumer product research, we have set the standard for the future. From our headquarters in the Netherlands, we develop state-of-the-art software which will boost your research. For further information contact: Rignald Span
Sensonics, Inc.
For further information: Tel: +1 (856) 547-7702
Sensory Computer Systems
Sensory Computer Systems provides the most powerful solution to the Sensory Testing and Market Research marketplace with its SIMS 2000 software. SIMS 2000 clients have come to enjoy the flexibility and user friendly interface that facilitate the efficient achievement of their sensory testing goals. The industry standard for the competitive marketplace, SIMS 2000 soars above its competitors in delivering cutting edge software and unparalleled customer support. Since 1986, Sensory Computer Systems SIMS 2000 software has been committed to providing its customers the easiest to use, most adaptable and most powerful software for test design, execution and analysis. SIMS 2000 for Windows XP/2000/2003, a 100% native Windows program, fulfills practically every requirement of the Sensory and Marketing Research functions, including Consumer Testing, Surveys, and Affective Testing. Our world-wide clients include Fortune 1000 product manufacturers, market research firms, and service organizations from a variety of industries. Our clients have discovered that using the best and most sophisticated available automated computerized system enables them in turn to develop the most profitable products and services as they move to gain market share and become market leaders. SIMS 2000 provides the solutions to meet research needs. By continually and consistently making improvements to its product line and using the newest available hardware and software technologies, Sensory Computer Systems maintains its leading edge position in the automation of Sensory and Marketing Research. For further information: Takasago
Takasago International Corporation was founded in Japan in 1920. For more than 80 years, Takasago has developed flavors and fragrances for some of the world’s most successful food, beverage, fine fragrance, household and personal care products. Takasago is a leading global company especially in the Asian region. The global Takasago organization maintains offices, production sites and R & D centers in 24 countries. Though our network of global research, production, creativity and marketing, we develop products tailored to the needs of individual markets. Takasago has vigorously pursued pharmaceutical intermediaries, functional materials, and other fine chemicals in which asymmetric synthesis, cultivated in our aroma chemical development work, is a key technology. By utilizing our technologies and our global network, we will develop high-quality and innovative products that contribute to cultural and social progress. Contact 
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