Press Release
Issue date: Wednesday, January 31, 2001
Contact: Richard Gilmore (tel. 703-684-1366)
Ag GMO Biotech Reporting Service Launched Jointly by the U.S. GIC Group, Italy's Nomisma, and Cazenave of Argentina
A joint
ag biotech reporting service is being launched by the U.S. GIC Group, Italy's
Nomisma and Argentina's Cazenave, covering the business impacts of developments
in the Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO) field. GIC's product offers
timely updates with commercial intelligence, and insider information on
regulatory and trade policies.
The
GMO On-line services cover a wide range of subjects from scientific developments
to regulatory issues that address specific intelligence needs for developing
tools to sustain a competitive advantage. GMO On-line reports track developments
in the following areas:
The
largest ag consulting firm in Italy, Nomisma of Bologna, will provide firsthand
commercial insights into the European Union's (EU) handling of biotech
crop production and marketing of GMO foods. The largest ag consulting firm
of Argentina, Cazenave, will provide up-to-date information on GMO issues
in South America, such as the changing status of corn, soybean and other
GMO and non-GMO crops.
GIC
has an international expert in charge of the project, Richard Gilmore,
who has worked on ag biotech issues in Europe, North America and South
America. Rick assessed the situation and indicated that the rapidly
changing GMO applications in the farm industry have left many farmers,
food producers, and consumer groups at a loss to understand how this new
technology affects their interests. Often farmers, food processors, grocery
chains, and consumer groups are split along the lines of ideological and
commercial interests, before they have a chance to evaluate developments
scientifically and using common sense.
GIC
is currently offering monthly subscriptions to this GMO On-line service
for $3,000, which will include: (1) monthly intelligence reports; (2) periodic
briefing memoranda following specific industry interests; and (3) listings
and information capsules identifying private sector breakthroughs and governmental
actions. This "tracking service will give GIC subscribers a realistic GMO footprint."
The GIC
Group, an agribusiness consulting and investment firm for 21 years worked
extensively on studies and reports involving such ag biotech companies
as DeKalb, Delta Pine, Dow, DuPont, Ecogen, Mycogen, Monsanto, Novartis,
and Pioneer. GIC has published many articles on GMO's such as "Ag Biotech
and World Food Security -- Threat or Boon" in Nature; GIC continues to
provide biotech consulting services, info-fax newsletters, and IPO financial
analysis.
Last Updated on October 2, 2002