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Symbioscience
What is Symbioscience™?
The natural world consists of countless interdependent relationships that balance and sustain all life. Just as a hummingbird is nourished by the flowers it pollinates, living creatures have symbiotic relationships with the world around them. Drawing on more than 15 years of global leadership and pioneering expertise in cocoa science, as well as decades of scientific research in nutrition, pet care and environmental sustainability, Mars, Incorporated has launched a new business, Mars Symbioscienc.
Symbioscience is dedicated to fostering ideas, people, technologies and businesses committed to developing innovative solutions that change the way we care for ourselves and the natural world.
How does Symbioscience relate to the rest of the Mars company?
Symbioscience is a business unit within Mars, Incorporated dedicated to fostering ideas, people, technologies and businesses committed to developing innovative solutions that change the way we care for ourselves and the natural world.
To learn more about Mars, Incorporated, please visit www.mars.com.
Where is Symbioscience located?
Symbioscience corporate headquarters and research facilities are located in Rockville, Maryland. To contact the corporate office, click here.
How do I learn about job opportunities at Symbioscience?
Symbioscience seeks leading talent to research, develop and market new, innovative products and technologies based on rigorous scientific study that will improve personal health, strengthen the bond between people and companion pets and better care for the environment.
To learn more about current job opportunities click here
What is next on the horizon for Symbioscience
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To learn more about innovation at Mars Veterinary, please visit our website: www.marsveterinary.com
To learn more about Mars Botanical's work harnessing plant science to help people, please visit our website at:
www.marsbotanical.com
To learn more about Mars' commitment to preserving the earth's natural resources, please visit our web site:
Environmental Sustainability:
www.cocoasustainability.mars.com
Mars Veterinary
What is Mars Veterinary?
As the industry leader in advanced pet genetics, Mars Veterinary is dedicated to revolutionizing personalized pet care by strengthening the bond between people and their loving companions.
This new business draws on Mars Incorporated's extensive experience operating Waltham™, the leading authority on pet care and nutrition, as well as the expertise of respected veterinarians, universities and breed organizations throughout the world.
What does Mars Veterinary offer to the veterinarian industry?
Drawing on Mars Incorporated's extensive experience operating Waltham™, the leading authority on pet care and nutrition, Mars Veterinary is developing highly sophisticated genetic tests that allow pet owners, veterinarians and care providers to provide insight into the genetic make up of their individual dog. A mixed breed analysis test, the first of a series of Wisdom Panel™ tests, will be available in 2007.
Where is Mars Veterinary located?
The corporate headquarters of Mars Veterinary is located in Rockville, Maryland, with research and laboratory facilities in England and Nebraska.
Mars Botanical
What is Mars Botanical doing to advance plant nutritional science?
As a newly established scientific division of Mars, Incorporated, Mars Botanical will continue to build on its 15-year heritage of scientific leadership related to the study of cocoa flavanols - the phytonutrient in cocoa that has been widely studied for its vascular benefits, which hold tremendous potential for reducing cardiovascular disease risk.
The mission of Mars Botanical is to apply the science and technology of phytonutrients to create new plant-derived products aimed at improving human health, and do so in a sustainable way that helps cocoa communities and their local environment.
Mars Botanical continues to pioneer research and innovation in plant nutritional science backed by the global supply chain and marketing power of Mars, Incorporated to help support the launch of new innovative and health-promoting, plant-derived products.
Where is Mars Botanical located?
The corporate headquarters of Mars Botanical is located in Rockville, Maryland. To contact the corporate office, click here.
Mars Sustainable Solutions
What is Symbioscience doing to help protect the environment?
Mars, Incorporated and Symbioscience are working proactively to help ensure the future availability of the cocoa supply while encouraging responsible production methods that help cocoa-producing communities thrive. Cocoa sustainability is making a positive difference for cocoa farmers around the world by helping alleviate poverty and its devastating impact on origin communities while also protecting tropical microclimates.
Calling on science related to agriculture, clean water, marine life and more, Symbioscience seeks new and innovative ways to create sustainable agricultural and marine supply chains with the aim of restoring balance to the global environment.
To learn more about Mars leadership in sustainable cocoa production and commitment to origin communities, please visit Mars Cocoa Sustainability.
Where is Mars Sustainable Solutions located?
The corporate headquarters of Mars Sustainable Solutions is located in Rockville, Maryland. To contact the corporate office, click here.

