Organization: Ocean Nutrition Canada

Leveraging ocean science as an innovation engine for Atlantic Canada

RE$EARCH MONEY editor Mark Henderson recently spoke to John Risley, Nova Scotia’s widely-recognized seafood baron and one of the province’s most influential corporate citizens, about Atlantic Canada’s strategy and prospects for becoming a global innovation hub of ocean-related science.

Ocean Nutrition Canada sold to Dutch firm

Ocean Nutrition Canada (ONC), one of Atlantic Canada’s largest homegrown R&D-intensive companies, has been sold to Royal DSM, Heerlen Netherlands for $540 million. Halifax-based ONC is a wholly owned subsidiary of Clearwater Fine Foods and the world’s largest supplier of Omega-3 EPA/DHA ingredients to the dietary, supplement and food manufacturing industries. Founded in 1997, it…