BNE.F - Burcon NutraScience Corporation

Burcon NutraScience Corporation

1946 West Broadway
Vancouver, BC V6J 1Z2
Canada

https://www.burcon.ca

Sector(s): Consumer Defensive
Industry: Packaged Foods
Full-time employees: 26

Key executives

Name	Title	Pay	Exercised	Year born
Ms. Jade Cheng	CFO & Treasurer	147.4k	N/A	N/A
Dr. Martin Hans Schweizer	VP of Technical Devel.	131.56k	N/A	N/A
Ms. Kam T. Law	Sr. VP of Legal & Corp. Sec.	167.5k	N/A	1969
Mr. Johann Franz Tergesen CA, CPA, MBA	Advisor	247.13k	N/A	1963
Mr. Randy Willardsen	Sr. VP of Process	167.04k	N/A	N/A
Mr. Kip Underwood M.B.A.	Chief Exec. Officer	N/A	N/A	N/A
Mr. Paul Lam	Director of Investor Relations	N/A	N/A	N/A

Amounts are as of 31 December 2022, and compensation values are for the last fiscal year ending on that date. Pay includes salary, bonuses, etc. Exercised is the value of options exercised during the fiscal year. Currency in EUR.

Description

Burcon NutraScience Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, develops plant proteins and ingredients for use in the food and beverage industries in Canada. The company's products include Peazazz, a pea protein for use in dairy alternatives, ready-to-drink beverages, dry blended beverages, bars, baked goods, and meat substitute products; and Peazac and Peazac 850, a pea protein for plant-based meat alternative products, ready-to-mix powders, ready-to-mix beverages, dairy alternatives, and nutrition bars, as well as other applications requiring the most neutral flavor and moderate viscosity. It provides Puratein, a canola protein isolate for use in meat alternatives, such as burgers, sausages, and nutrition bars; Supertein, a canola protein that is a light-colored powder for use in non-dairy frozen desserts, egg alternative, plant-based marshmallows and ready-to-mix beverages, whipped toppings, and plant-based bars; and Nutratein, a canola protein comprising a mixture of globulin and albumin proteins for use in meat and egg alternatives, and other plant-based functional foods. In addition, the company offers Nutratein-PS and Nutratein-TZ, a blend of Peazac pea protein; and CLARISOY, a soy protein for use in sports nutrition beverages, citrus-based drinks, fruit-flavored beverages, lemonades, powdered beverage mixes, and other foods and nutritional products. Further, it provides MeritPro, a nutritional protein blend, including allergen-free, gluten-free, non-dairy, non-GMO, and vegan. The company was formerly known as Burcon Capital Corp. and changed its name to Burcon NutraScience Corporation in October 1999. The company was incorporated in 1998 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.

Corporate governance

Burcon NutraScience Corporation’s ISS governance QualityScore as of 1 June 2023 is 7. The pillar scores are Audit: 10; Board: 4; Shareholder rights: 1; Compensation: 10.

Corporate governance scores courtesy of Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS). Scores indicate decile rank relative to index or region. A decile score of 1 indicates lower governance risk, while 10 indicates higher governance risk.