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US medical nutrition company Solace Nutrition has acquired all of the assets of R-Kane Nutritionals. R-Kane Nutritionals is a company specialising in high-protein meal replacement products to support weight loss management. Solace Nutrition's CEO, Thomas Clough, said: "R-Kane Nutritionals has a long and rich history of promoting products that help people seeking significant weight loss, including supporting medically-supervised weight loss programmes". He continued: "This acquisition offers Solace growth into an adjacent nutritional management market and allows us to leverage the core competencies that we've developed in manufacturing and distribution over the years to R-Kane customers. Bringing R-Kane Nutritionals into Solace will create synergies and help accelerate growth in both brands." Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.