Rest assure people....a2 will do well in China...
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/n...ectid=11613544
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Rest assure people....a2 will do well in China...
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/n...ectid=11613544
Implied for a2 but Danone is just exercising a rebranding for something losing the respect of the consumers Or maybe just to further prove their case against Fonterra :cool: This is not the impetus you would want to read about a2 going espledidly well on that market.
An excerpt from Synlait announcement yesterday.
Nutritional product sales for the period were 7,498 MT, a 155% increase on
HY15's 2,946 MT, and accounted for 16% of total sales volumes in HY16.
"The result we're expecting is an almost fourfold increase in canned infant
formula sales in FY16, compared to FY15.
In my opinion, this is a sure indication of what volumes A2 are exporting...
I didn't comment in the SML thread yesterday but I'm quite happy with their result. From SML point of view, their business has plenty of growth ahead but I expect it to be steady year on year stuff in the range of 10-15% growth. Boring in comparison to the ATM story but I think if I was holding ATM at these levels, I would take some profits at around $2 and buy SML which I think has more room to move.
http://www.odt.co.nz/news/business/3...boost-possible - SML might have greater growth potential than 10%. I can't see that've got the debt ceiling space so it's got to be odds on for a share issue now.
Oops.......i thought my mouse jumps from ATM thread to Synlait milk and then suddenly to Bunnings :p But carry on as I now got my bearing. Must be a "cannot do something outside due to weather" day.
ATM is going big people! Big marketing and high demand in UK and USA. Check out thier Facebook page, heaps of good comments.
https://www.a2milk.co.uk/food-unwrapped/
Chinese A1 vs A2 study - published 2/4/16: http://nutritionj.biomedcentral.com/...937-016-0147-z
I can't really comment on the quality of the science, and the trial numbers look a bit skinny (45), but what I like about this is that it's research that has come out of China itself - a population whose health, if you are a believer, stands to benefit from the consumption of pure A2.
Thanks for posting Ginger. And great to see you fighting the good fight on HC from time to time.
I guess we all expected this trial to show once again that essentially the standard supermarket mix of A1 and A2 milk causes digestive discomfort whereas pure A2 milk doesn't. That was shown by the Curtin University trial, and is even more evident using this larger cohort of Chinese subjects.
But there were also some other interesting and perhaps surprising findings that emerged, particularly that drinking milk containing A1 causes a loss of brain functioning - not a lot, but enough to have significant effects. This is what the trial report says:
"This minor impairment of cognitive function can have a considerable impact in situations where rapid stimulus detection and/or rapid decision-making are required. This finding demonstrates that consumption of milk containing the A1 β-casein type affects more than just the gastrointestinal system; there are also effects on neural function. "
I would hope this will be picked up by the news media. It could lead to an interesting new direction in research and understanding into the problems associated with A1 and the benefits of therefore switching to pure A2. Of course, it ties in with the already known fact that certain neural diseases including autism and schizophrenia are connected with A1 milk.
In the Chinese trial, they didn't just test pure A2 milk against pure A1 milk, because pure A1 isn't commercially available and is therefore irrelevant. The real issue is how badly consumers are affected by standard supermarket milk that is as low as 40% A1, with A2 making up the other 60%. So that's what they used, and even with that low proportion of A1, the bad effects were very clear.
Another research underway...
http://www.nbr.co.nz/article/a2-milk...ators-b-187172