NutraCea: Completes Joint Venture with Alothon

Phoenix / AZ. (nc) NutraCea, a world leader in production and marketing of stabilized rice bran(SRB), announced that on January 18, 2011, AF Bran Holding LLC closed on the previously announced purchase of an ownership interest in Nutra SA, LLC, the 100 percent owner of Industria Riograndese De Oleos Vegetais Ltda. (Irgovel). Ettore V. Biagioni, Managing Partner of Alothon Group, the private equity firm that manages AF Bran Holding, commented: «We are enthused to participate in the significant growth opportunity of the SRB and RBO space in Brazil as well as the rest of the world and particularly pleased to join the NutraCea and Irgovel management which is a leader in the industry». W. John Short, Chairman and CEO of NutraCea: «We are pleased to have completed this transaction and look forward to working with the Alothon team to build Irgovel into a globally competitive, state-of-the-art rice bran oil bio-refinery».

About: NutraCea is a world leader in production and marketing of stabilized rice bran (SRB), rice bran oil (RBO) and their derivative products. NutraCea holds many patents for stabilized rice bran (SRB) production technology and proprietary products derived from SRB. NutraCea’s proprietary technology enables the creation of food and nutrition products to be unlocked from rice bran, normally a waste by-product of standard rice processing. NutraCea also produces consumer rice bran health supplements.