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NewsBot Date: October 6, 2005 01:30:00 AM
HESG News Shugr Shipped to Grocery Chain; Shugr to Be Available in Meijer Stores
LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 6, 2005--Health Sciences Group, Inc. (OTCBB:HESG), provider of innovative nutraceutical products and functional food ingredients derived from natural sources, announced today that it has shipped Shugr to Meijer, a grocery and general merchandise retailer operating 170 stores throughout the mid-West.
"We are please to see Shugr distributed in Meijer grocery stores and general merchandise supercenters throughout the mid-West," said Fred E. Tannous, co-Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Health Sciences Group, Inc. "Meijer represents the first of many other grocery store chains that we are targeting to sell Shugr. We expect to see Shugr sold in more national grocery and national retail chains by year-end."
Shugr is the first natural, zero-calorie sweetener made from sugars that occur naturally in such good-tasting, healthy foods such as fruits, vegetables, corn and dairy products. Erythritol is a naturally-occurring sugar commonly found in melon, grapes, mushrooms and soy. Tagatose comes from dairy products, but does not affect people who are lactose intolerant. Tagatose also provides an added health benefit -- prebiotic fiber that promotes intestinal health, much the way yogurt does. Maltodextrin is derived from corn sugar, which is non-GMO and gluten-free. A trace amount of sucralose is added to give Shugr its "high note." All of these ingredients carry a GRAS (Generally Recognized As Safe) designation for food safety from the US Food & Drug Administration.
About Meijer
Meijer is a Michigan-based, family-owned and operated grocery and general merchandise supercenter retailer operating 170 stores throughout Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan and Ohio. For more information and to order products, including Shugr(TM), visit www.Meijer.com.
About Health Sciences Group, Inc.
Health Sciences Group identifies, develops and commercializes innovative nutraceutical products derived from natural sources to provide consumers and medical professionals with preventative healthcare alternatives. The company markets its own line of proprietary products based on novel technologies with clinically-supported, GRAS-certified ingredients under its Swiss Research(TM) and Swiss Diet(TM) brand names. For more information, visit www.HSciences.com and www.Shugr.com.
This release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Act of 1934 that are based upon current expectations or beliefs, as well as a number of assumptions about future events. Although the Company believes that the expectations reflected in the forward-looking statements and the assumptions upon which they are based are reasonable, it can give no assurance that such expectations and assumptions will prove to have been correct. The reader is cautioned not to put undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, as these statements are subject to numerous factors and uncertainties, including without limitation, the independent authority of the special committee to act on the matters discussed, the successful negotiation of the potential acquisition and disposal of transactions described above, successful implementation of the company's business strategy and competition, any of which may cause actual results to differ materially from those described in the statements. In addition, other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are discussed in the Company's most recent Form 10-QSB and Form 10-KSB filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
