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Beston Global Food Company (BFC) has entered into a joint venture to provide fresh meals to a number of Asian early childcare centres.

The joint venture with Singapore-based MindChamps will produce fresh meals for 35 centres in Singapore and the Philippines.

MindChamps currently supplies some 6000 meals each school day to the children in its childcare centres, according to BFC.

The Joint Venture, which is known as Beston MindChamps Kids Nutrition (Kids Nutrition), aims to provide fresh and nutritious eating options for young children and to educate them at an early age about the need to make healthier food choices to avoid the onset of diseases like diabetes and obesity.

BFC chairman, Dr Roger Sexton said that the Kids Nutrition JV with MindChamps was consistent with the long-term focus of BFC to build strategic value into the BFC business by taking a whole-of-life perspective in relation to the healthy eating needs of populations.

“The program, along with a number of the foods for MindChamps, have been designed by our in-house Dietician and the food technicians in our various BFC operating businesses,” he said.

“The foods are produced from carefully selected and evaluated ingredients after taking into account a range of nutritional and other factors such as artificial food preservatives, sustainability of seafood, animal welfare, antibiotics in meat and pesticides in vegetables.”

MindChamps was founded as a learning centre in Australia in 1998 and established its preschools in Singapore in 2002.

It trains students from Early Childhood through to Secondary school in the art of learning how to learn and the development of their mind in order to be a champion learner as they progress through their schooling and working careers.

The Joint Venture will operate as a special purpose company in Singapore with 50 per cent of the shares held each by BFC and MindChamps Holdings.

While the initial focus of the JV will be on the MindChamps Centres in Singapore and Manila, BFS says the intention is to roll out the initiative to other countries as MindChamps continues to expand across Asia and into the Middle East.

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