The Nutra Skills Laboratory at the heart of innovation Born from the merger between Codilab (dry food supplements production created in 2002) and the Pierre Caron laboratory (created the same year and taken over in 2019), the Nutra Skills Laboratory relies on the real synergies between these two entities - now united under the same banner - to further anchor itself in innovation, as Frédéric Herlin, the laboratory’s CEO, and Louis Jouffrault, its managing director, explain. Actif’s Mag : How did you go about bringing together Codilab and Pierre Caron under the same entity? Frédéric Herlin: What makes the strength of a company in Formes sèches : general, and even more so of the Nutra Skills Laboratory, is human value. This human value has been at the heart of the Comprimés effervescents development of the Pierre Caron family laboratory, of its ca- Comprimés à croquer ou à pacity to develop innovative formulas and to produce them. avaler Frankly, there were no equivalent companies - at least in Comprimés orodispersibles France. For its part, Codilab shared more or less the same Gélules (végétales, sur base values - people, working methods, customer service, quality gélatine animale ou marin) de of production. Bringing these two entities together was a na- toutes tailles (T0, T1, T100) tural fit. And in my former life, I have never seen mergers Mélanges de poudres à sec ou with so many synergies. avec imprégnation It is to preserve this human value that we have kept the sites of the two entities, in Vendée for Codilab, in Morbihan for Pierre Caron. This allows the Nutra Skills laboratory to rely Dry forms : Frédéric Herlin on the strengths of each entity. And to keep the value chain Effervescent tablets Laboratoire in-house. Chewable or swallowable Pierre Caron tablets Actif’s Mag : In concrete terms, how will the new entity Orodispersible tablets function ? Frédéric Herlin: As I said, Pierre Caron’s strength lies in itsCapsules (vegetable, animal or marine gelatin based) of all R&D and innovation capacity, even though the laboratory sizes (T0, T1, T100) also packages food supplements. The site will therefore be dedicated to R&D. Dry or impregnated powder mixtures It is then up to Codilab’s R&D to take over and ensure the feasibility of production. The real complementarity between our two sites allows Nutra Skills to be faster in its develop- ments but also more open. Production in the Vendée will continue to rely on its skills in17 M€ dry forms - powders, tablets, capsules. For liquids, we turn to a partner who makes the mixtures for us. And we take care of the packaging. Turnover in 2020 (20% increase) Louis Jouffrault Each of the two sites had different areas of expertise. Their Codilab union strengthens the global expertise of Nutra Skills and + 15 % brings additional services in terms of innovation capacity, and also manufacturing. The aim of this organisation, which was set up in July 2020 Growth prospects in 2021 and which led to the launch of the Nutra Skills Laboratory less than a year later, is to maintain the value chain within the company. srentraP lairtsudnI — sleirtsudnI serianetraP- 661 -