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2025 Success Toolkit

2025 Challenges & Opportunities

In this special section, find the insights you need to support the health of your business, and the industry overall, in the year ahead.

January 16, 2025

WholeFoods Magazine Contributor

What are the most pressing issues impacting the natural products industry today, and what actions are needed to help sure a healthier future?

Read valuable perspectives from leading industry experts representing CRN, CHPA, Organic & Natural Health, INFRA, SENPA, WIN, GOED, U.S. Hemp Roundtable, ITC + GPA, and MAHO. You'll find the updates, insights, and action steps you need to help support the wellbeing of your business, and the industry overall, in the year ahead.

KISC My Health Reveals Special Guest to Kick off Fall Season

WholeFoods Magazine's own Heather Wainer stars in this week's episode.

September 24, 2024

Richard Ortega, Associate Editor, WholeFoods Magazine

WholeFoods Magazine's Heather Wainer joins the KISC My Health radio program for a one-on-one discussion.

Merchandising Insights

DSHEA at 30—Where’s our grassroots army?

U.S. independent retailers share their thoughts on the state of the industry.

June 13, 2024

Jay Jacobowitz, President & Founder, Retail Insights

Does the natural products industry still have the cohesiveness to fight the constant legislative battles to preserve access to our products? A new survey of U.S. independent retailers highlights the challenges.

2024 FMI Health and Well-being Report

The report highlights two key consumer focuses.

February 16, 2024

Richard Ortega, Associate Editor, WholeFoods Magazine

Food industry companies lean on established strategies as shoppers continue to emphasize healthy eating habits.

Publisher's Letter

A Wish for the Next 40 Years

Publisher Heather Wainer reflects on four decades of family ownership of WholeFoods Magazine.

January 17, 2024

Heather Wainer

Publisher Heather Wainer reflects on four decades of family ownership of WholeFoods Magazine.

Secrets to AIDP’s SUCCESS

May 24, 2022

Maggie Jaqua, Content Director

WholeFoods: Congratulations on 25 years in business! Please tell us how AIDP got started. Lee: AIDP officially started in 1996. It all started with vitamin C. With the introduction of a friend, I became the sole representative of a vitamin C manufacturer in China. The manufacturer shut down later when...

We Are Family

July 23, 2018

Laurie Petersen

It would be a failure to depict a mother and child on our cover and to report what the research points to about the lifelong importance of those earliest years, yet not address the ongoing events in this country regarding immigration policy and the separation of children from their parents.

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Supplier Briefs: August 2018

July 19, 2018

WholeFoods Magazine Staff

Functional ingredients manufacturer BENEO held an open house recently for its North American Application Center in Parsippany, NJ. The 3,000 square foot facility is equipped with state-of-the-art equipment to test formulation aspects of its functional ingredients, including fiber enrichment, sugar or fat replacement, as well as taste and texture improvements.

People News: July 2018

June 26, 2018

WholeFoods Magazine Staff

Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) was awarded the National Championship Trophy by the Natural Products Association (NPA) for his contributions to the success of the natural products industry. Hatch has announced he will not seek re-election this year. Other winners of the 25th annual NPA Awards presented during NPA’s The Big...

The Business Success Equation for Natural and Organic

May 28, 2018

Simi Summer and Simi Summer, Ph.D.

Business as usual can be a dog eat dog endeavor — characterized by "fierce competition" between major ballplayers who may be willing to harm each other's interests to achieve their own goals. Although a continuous launch of new and improved natural/organic products is essential for a growing and thriving industry,...