April 12, 2007 - A New Taste for Life! - UK

April 12, 2007 - NatureWorks LLC announces the start of its third edition of the Ingeo™ NatureWorks® Earth Month program. A taste for better products and a better way of living is a natural dream for everyone, and Earth Month 2007 is a chance to experience all of this.

Created in 2005 to communicate NatureWorks LLC’s mission and message for responsible innovation in everyday life, the company has developed a unique platform for a whole new range of partners’ products and a new era in shopping. Starting on April 22nd to coincide with the celebration of Earth Day, the event runs through to June 5th with World Environment Day.

THE PARTNERS

NatureWorks LLC is pleased to present its Earth Month partners and their new product ranges, to show the breadth and depth of their commercial offering from apparel to home furnishing to personal care products under the trade name of Ingeo™ fiber. This years newcomer category is plastics applications and eco-packaging solutions. All these products are made from NatureWorks® polymer, exclusively manufactured by NatureWorks LLC, dedicated to innovation, the environment and sustainable solutions for the modern world.

This year the portfolio of partners products is more varied and versatile than ever before.

A complete array of NatureWorks® polymer solutions can be found from brandowners and retailers using salad and bakery bags, deli containers, tubs, sachets,cups, food serviceware and bottles from • Del Monte Fresh Produce Company • Coop • Auchan • Priméale • Belu • Gordon Food Service • J&J Distributing, Fresh Cuts brand • Cub Foods • Naturally Iowa LLC • Blue Lake Citrus Products, Noble Juice brand • Schnuck Markets, Inc. • Wild Oats Markets • Wilkinson Industries • Beantrees Fine Organic Coffees • SOLE Custom Footbeds • Cargo • Taylor Farms • Faribault Mills • Green Mountain Coffee Roasters • Three Sixty • Subway • Ebenezeer • The Sandwich Club • Select Service Partner • Shih An Farm • Ba Fang Yuan Chi • Yu Chen Chai Bakery • Happy Inn Juice Bar • King Ko Food • Mos Burger • 7-Eleven • Dante Coffee Shop

Look to Green Mountain Coffee Roasters for fine coffees offered with NatureWorks® polymer-based disposable cups distributed and used throughout the US.

For serviceware items made from NatureWorks® polymer see the offer from Gordon Food Service Company.

In personal care products made of Ingeo™ fiber, a new range of feminine hygiene pads and diapers from Naturaè are distributed in the USA by Good Earth Trading and produced by WIP. Ben’s Land has also started offering a range of baby wipes and diapers that complete the childrenswear range. Packaging made from NatureWorks® polymer complements personal care products such as the Cargo Cosmetics Plant Love™ collection,with their beautiful lipstick case, and with the “ecopac” for the SOLE Customer Footbeds, which offer orthopedic support and cushioning.

In apparel, you can find everything from T-shirts to fashion separates, jeans, jerseywear and performance sportswear from Salewa (Germany), Nadia Fassi, Linda Loudermilk, Millets, A-Style, Brooklyn Industries, Moral Fervor, NatureVSFuture and Rianne De Witte. Other apparel includes childrenswear from Ben’s Land, socks from Fox River, lingerie and beach robes from Jáloe and a uniquely socially responsible range from Codice a Sbarre. Everything carrying the Ingeo™ brand, of course.

“We are participating in Earth Month 2007 because it's every, and we mean every, company's responsibility to do their part to save our ailing planet."

- Linda Loudermilk

Coming from the gardening world we have a new partner! Easy Gardener has succeeded in creating the world’s first weed control product made from renewable resources, Ingeo™ fibers. The new WeedBlock® Natural has been launched throughout the UK and US for Ingeo NatureWorks Earth Month; at the B&Q, a UK mega garden and home improvement chain, and at Home Depot in Chicago and Los Angeles. It is a unique item that offers the consumer the option to use a gardening product with a reduced environmental footprint.

In homeware, Faribault Woolen Mills is showing Ingeo™ fiber blended blankets while Mercury, Ennerev and Pacific Coast Feather Company are promoting modern, more sustainable bedding products. Within home furnishings, Designtex is presenting its range dedicated to the Guggenheim Museums in New York.

"Seven years ago, we began the rewarding commitment of marketing sustainable products using Ingeo™ fibers. Our mission is to provide an incredible sleeping experience through high quality products while helping to preserve the earth’s precious natural resources”.

- Pacific Coast Feather

It is with NatureWorks LLC’s partners’ commitment and their realization that by working and focusing on a more responsible, eco-centric way they can reap the growing economic rewards available from working in this arena.

These partners have created this credible, critical mass of fresh and innovative products, demonstrating at a stroke a real and smart choice today, one that heralds the beginning of a whole new way of doing business, as well as thinking about what we want and how we like to shop.

THE EVENTS

Through a planned sequence of unique global events, the story and message from each parnter collectively becomes the heart of the Ingeo NatureWorks Earth Month program. Created by NatureWorks LLC’s partners, these activities and promotions will raise awareness and offer a real taste of the future made from real alternatives that are innovative, functional, responsible and beautiful.

Ingeo NatureWorks Earth Month starts with a wellness center and creative gallery at the 2007 London Marathon Village. To coincide with this event NatureWorks LLC will host its first round table discussion at the Natmag. Concurrently, NatureWorks LLC will participate in a conference at Hofstra University in New York with a presentation on ‘Defining Culture Through Dress: Individual And Collective Identities.’

Next, NatureWorks LLC will participate in a tree planting event in Hong Kong organized by Friends of the Earth and then go to Florence, Italy for the eco-consumer exhibition, Terra Futura. Also in Florence there will be the Fitness Festival where NatureWorks LLC will show its complete product portfolio. Nadia Fassi will present her Ingeo™ Fashion Fitness Collection while Coop, the no.1 Italian food retail chain, will use NatureWorks® polymer for its disposable serviceware and the unique ‘fitness menu’ catering service throughout the Festival.

Tamshui Fisherman’s Wharf Eco Center opens in Taiwan while at the same time NatureWorks LLC sponsors the two day LOHAS 11 Forum in Los Angeles, the premiere global environmental event that focuses on promoting Lifestyles Of Health and Sustainability.

Watch out for the New York launch of sustainable Ingeo™ t-shirts at the hip Chelsea boutique of Brooklyn Industries. Then take the chance to review all of these products and more at the Launch Pad showroom in New York for the duration of Ingeo NatureWorks Earth Month.

A new important player joins us in packaging: Risupack, a major supplier to the food and retail industry, has produced a full range of NatureWorks® polymer ingredient branded packaging for the Japanese market. The products will be seen and touched at Fabex in Tokyo, April 18-20.

THE CREATIVE GALLERIES

All of these events and promotions will be supported by one of NatureWorks LLC’s ‘pop-up’ Creative Gallery displays, each one tailored locally to suit the venue, audience and interest while showing a full range of innovative products made from NatureWorks® polymer and Ingeo™ fiber.

Find everything you need from a wardrobe full of fashion, to how you furnish your home, to how you can care for and pamper yourself to new ways in how you buy the food you eat and beverages you drink all packaged in this new generation of eco-packaging solutions.

Japanese innovation brings its own unique contribution to the Creative Gallery, for the first time. A whole new lifestyle product category is now available from individual leaders in their field.

High technology innovation combines with responsible thinking in the Walkman® WM-FX202 and Portable Radio ICR-P10 from Sony, a company and brand dedicated to creative lifestyle product design. The casings for Walkman® and the blister package of the radio have been made from NatureWorks® polymer.

High technology innovation combines with responsible thinking in a new generation of PC from Fujitsu, where the housings have been made from NatureWorks® polymer resin. Starting with just a small part for PC’s as early as 2002, Fujitsu was the first to lead and develop the application of NatureWorks® bio-polymer for IT products as well as the embossed carrier tape needed to ship LSI chips in bulk.

Panasonic - Matsushita Battery Industrial Co, Ltd is supplying NatureWorks® polymer-based blister packaging for batteries.

We are pleased to showcase innovative packaging design from the premier UK high street retailer Marks & Spencer, who is ahead of the pack in terms of pioneering and implementing environmental and sustainability issues which are exactly in line with the meaning behind the NatureWorks® polymer product and mission.

And last but not least, a new range of home spa candles from Prod Logi Co., LTD (BsaB brand) in Thailand, will be on display during Ingeo NatureWorks Earth Month with packaging made from NatureWorks polymer to protect and preserve the product as well as promote a clear eco-modern style.

All this is possible because of the revolutionary NatureWorks® polymer, made from 100% annually renewable plant resources and not the traditional, limited precious fossil fuels.

Because of its natural origins and specialized manufacturing, NatureWorks® polymer uses 68 percent less fossil fuel resources than traditional, petrochemical based plastics. This also means that CO2 emissions are greatly reduced creating a reduced carbon footprint for us all. This innovation creates the building blocks NatureWorks LLC’s partners have used to transform the consumer landscape with this full range of mainstream alternative lifestyle products.

WHAT’S UP IN THE UK

Natureworks LLC Launches In London With Ingeo™ Natureworks® Earth Month 2007

Initiated to demonstrate that eco-friendly products can be stylish, great quality and good value, Ingeo™ NatureWorks® Earth Month will open in London this April. The UK will host a dedicated programme of events as part of this global initiative, including inspiring exhibitions, fashion displays and discussions on pressing environmental issues.

Its core message will be promoted in the UK through a series of events held in London and led by a collaboration of forward-thinking brands that have already made 100% sustainable products a viable option to their customers by adopting Natureworks® polymer and Ingeo™ fibre into their ranges. These include representatives from a wide range of industry sectors such as Marks & Spencer packaging, Belu Water, Millets outdoor wear and A-style fashion clothing.

A-style, the Italian street-wear brand, recently launched in London has created an Earth Month 2007 t-shirt made from 100% Ingeo™ fibre. The t-shirt is to be included in the spring and summer collection to emphasize the synergy between style and sustainability. Through visiting every natural mineral source in the UK, Belu water prides itself in being the cleanest and freshest in the country. Committed to lowering their carbon footprint, Belu water comes bottled in alternative bio-plastic made from Natureworks® polymer. Millets is part of the Blacks Leisure Group PLC and is the first outdoor company in the UK to develop a range of environmentally sound high performance clothing made with Ingeo™ fibre. Innovative packaging design will be showed in the Creative Galleries by Marks & Spencer, the premier UK high street retailer, who is ahead of the pack in terms of pioneering and implementing environmental and sustainability issues which are exactly in line with the meaning behind the NatureWorks® polymer product and mission.

Mark Vergauwen, Regional Manager, Europe, for Natureworks LLC comments, “We are very pleased to bring Ingeo™ NatureWorks® Earth Month to the UK and are excited about the positive impact our activities will have. We are greatly encouraged by the support from our partner retailers in the UK and feel London is the perfect host for our events programme. The range of products now available with a low carbon footprint is huge and still growing. As well as demystifying the concept of 'eco-friendly living', Ingeo™ NatureWorks® Earth Month is our way of making the consumer aware of these easily accessible, environmentally-friendly alternatives so that they can make an informed choice when buying both everyday items and style-focused products.”

London will play host to two not-to-be-missed events, kicking off with a relaxation-themed exhibition in the marathon village from 18 to 22 April. The exhibition will comprise a creative display of the partner brands’ products emphasizing the range of environmentally-friendly alternatives already available on the market using Natureworks® polymer and Ingeo™ fibre. Visitors will literally be able to taste and touch a more responsible lifestyle experience and enjoy sampling and shopping the eco-friendly way. In the minimal and calm atmosphere of the booth, people will be invited to relax and invigorate with an energizing massage treatment from one of four top osteopaths of the Symrun Center – a partner of the University of Chieti.

As part of the marathon activity there is the opportunity for a journalist and partner to win a pampering experience at La Ginestra Hotel, situated in the Marches region of Montelparo, Italy.

This will be followed by an industry roundtable discussion held on the morning of the 24 April. The event will bring together leading figures from the key partner brands in the UK including: Reed Paget, managing director of Belu Water; Dan Boxer, president of Easy Gardener; Bruce Code from Renault and Kate Fish of BSR. The central discussion topic will focus on how responsible innovation can become a day-to-day, accessible reality to consumers. Each representative will discuss what responsible innovation means to their brand and how they are establishing this within their company ethos. Every speaker will contribute towards a view of how, collectively, they can bring responsible innovation to all consumers.

The venue for the roundtable event is the National Magazine House and the discussion will be supported by an artistic display of all products made from Natureworks® polymer and Ingeo™ fibre, ranging from apparel to packaging. Goodie-bags filled with samples from CARGO Cosmetics Plant Love™, with innovative lipstick tube made entirely from NatureWorks® polymer, will be distributed. The select guests and speakers will be treated to a spread of eco-friendly packaged food and drink.

About NatureWorks LLC

NatureWorks LLC is a stand-alone company wholly owned by Cargill. Dedicated to meeting the world’s needs today without compromising the earth’s ability to meet the needs of tomorrow, NatureWorks LLC is the first company to offer a family of commercially available low carbon footprint polymers derived from 100 percent annually renewable resources with cost and performance that compete with petroleum-based packaging materials and fibers. The company applies its unique technology to the processing of natural plant sugars to create a proprietary polylactide polymer, which is marketed under the NatureWorks® polymer and Ingeo™ fibers brand names.

www.natureworksllc.com

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