{"id":478,"date":"2009-11-12T14:14:30","date_gmt":"2009-11-12T22:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.getbig.com\/headlines\/?p=478"},"modified":"2009-11-12T14:14:30","modified_gmt":"2009-11-12T22:14:30","slug":"weider-global-nutrition-to-pursue-pending-lawsuit-against-glg-life-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getbig.com\/headlines\/2009\/11\/weider-global-nutrition-to-pursue-pending-lawsuit-against-glg-life-tech\/","title":{"rendered":"Weider Global Nutrition to Pursue Pending Lawsuit Against GLG Life Tech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the PR Newswire, by Weider Global Nutrition<\/p>\n<p>SALT LAKE CITY, Nov. 12 \/PRNewswire\/ &#8212; GLG-Weider Sweet Naturals (&#8220;Sweet Naturals&#8221;) is a joint venture between GLG Life Tech Corporation (&#8220;GLG&#8221;) and Weider Global Nutrition (&#8220;Weider&#8221;), combining GLG&#8217;s knowledge of stevia and Weider&#8217;s expertise in marketing, sales and distribution of health and nutritional products. In their Shareholders&#8217; Agreement, GLG and Weider stated their intention was to maximize stevia-based product sales through Sweet Naturals throughout the world. On October 14, 2009, however, GLG announced that it formed its own sales team for stevia-based products. On November 4, 2009, Weider filed a Statement of Claim against GLG with the Supreme Court of British Columbia in Canada, stating claims for breach of the Shareholders&#8217; Agreement, misrepresentations by GLG and its Chairman\/CEO, and for breach of fiduciary duties. The Statement of Claim is a public court record.<\/p>\n<p>Weider remains committed to supporting Sweet Naturals, which continues to market stevia-based products, and GLG has represented that it will continue to supply Sweet Naturals. Although Weider is hopeful it can resolve its dispute with GLG &#8212; and improve Sweet Naturals&#8217; service to its customers &#8212; Weider intends to maintain the lawsuit to protect and enforce its interests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the PR Newswire, by Weider Global Nutrition SALT LAKE CITY, Nov. 12 \/PRNewswire\/ &#8212; GLG-Weider Sweet Naturals (&#8220;Sweet Naturals&#8221;) is a joint venture between GLG Life Tech Corporation (&#8220;GLG&#8221;) and Weider Global Nutrition (&#8220;Weider&#8221;), combining GLG&#8217;s knowledge of stevia and Weider&#8217;s expertise in marketing, sales and distribution of health and nutritional products. In their<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getbig.com\/headlines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getbig.com\/headlines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getbig.com\/headlines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getbig.com\/headlines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getbig.com\/headlines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.getbig.com\/headlines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":479,"href":"https:\/\/www.getbig.com\/headlines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions\/479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getbig.com\/headlines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getbig.com\/headlines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getbig.com\/headlines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}