SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., June 24, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Changing Times Vitamins, Inc. (Pink Sheets:SGTB) announced a three way joint venture with Cliffstar Corporation, and Northern Lights Food Processing, LLC., for the manufacture, sale and distribution of CTV's Popeye Vitamin Water for Children. Northern Lights will create functional, ready to drink beverages and powdered formulas containing concentrations of various Photonutrients, vitamins and minerals. Cliffstar, one of the oldest and largest private label manufacturers of juice, enhanced waters, and other beverages in the US, will produce and distribute the Popeye Vitamin Waters exclusively for Changing Times (CTV). The joint venture ensures CTV that its Popeye Vitamin Water for children will be of the highest quality available of any children's vitamin drink product on the market today. It's anticipated that the launch date for the water will be in August.
About Cliffstar Corporation
Cliffstar Corporation, beginning over 100 years ago as a grower of grapes and a producer of wine, evolved in the early 1970s as a manufacturer of shelf stable juices, teas, sports drinks, fitness waters, and vitamin waters. Cliffstar produces private label shelf stable beverages for nearly every major retail outlet, as well as the leading club and mass merchandisers in the United States, Canada and Mexico, shipping over 60 million cases of beverages from distribution centers across the country. In addition to serving thousands of private label lines with more than 145 blends of juices, Cliffstar presses most of its own grapes, cranberries, and prunes to ensure consistent quality, flavor, and color in all its beverages. Cliffstar now includes 10 geographical locations and is the largest independent grape, cranberry, and prune juice processor in the United States.
About Northern Lights Food Processing
Founded in 1999, Northern Lights Food Processing, LLC is a GMP manufacturer, offering product development and quality science-based, and innovative natural fruit ingredients for dietary supplements, functional foods, enhanced beverages and cosmeceuticals that promote a healthy lifestyle. The company performs low-temperature drying, processing, milling, blending and packing of specialty fruit powders and specialty fruit oils in its more than 40,000 square feet of state-of-the-art manufacturing and storage facility. The kosher certified functional ingredients are produced with no chemicals, solvents, preservatives, artificial colorings, sugars or enzymes
About Changing Times Vitamins, Inc.
Changing Times Vitamins distributes a line of products specifically geared to the health and energy sectors, specifically targeting athletes and people with active lifestyles. Most products contain a patent pending algae extract that has been clinically tested in humans and animals.
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