Small caps round-up: Provexis, Cyan, Cupid

Sports nutrition specialist Provexis said an industrial scale production of Fruitflow powder, was successfully completed in 2012. Fruitflow is Provexis's tomato extract which inhibits platelet aggregating and therefore reduces the chance of heart disease.

Provexis has identified a potential application for Fruitflow in the sports nutrition market and has developed a product for its Science in Sport business. This product will launch in the UK in late summer, as part of a wider new product launch programme for the business.

Cyan, which produces products enable remote reading of gas and electricity meters, said the Tamil Nadu Electricity Board, one of the largest electricity distributors in India, has unexpectedly extended the deadline for submission of samples for its automatic meter reading tender by 10 days to February 20th. The extension should benefit Cyan "as we understand it will allow a greater number of CyLec [i.e. Cyan technology] interoperable meters to be fully developed and submitted," said Bijan Mohandes, Vice-President of Worldwide Sales and Marketing at Cyan.

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