The natural products industry is growing and dietary supplements are part and parcel to this growth. According to the Council for Responsible Nutrition’s (CRN) 2016 Consumer Survey, 71% of adults use dietary supplements, making them an important source of income for natural products retailers (1). However, as the industry grows...
Advertising is all about communicating and messaging. It should be used similarly to having an intimate conversation with a friend — someone you know, like and trust. Experts continually talk about the ability to target consumers. They all have different ideas on what works best. The brands and retailers who...
Watching Wall Street hammer major food-retailing stocks immediately after Amazon’s June announcement to buy Whole Foods Market, I can understand why you — an independent natural products retailer — may have felt a shiver down your spine. Since then, those grocery stocks have recovered most of their losses as investors...
Washington, D.C. — Rep. David Cillicine (D-R.I.), the top Democrat on the House subcommittee on regulatory reform, commercial and antitrust law wrote a letter to the House Judiciary Committee and the subcommittee chairman requesting an oversight hearing on Amazon’s $13.7 billion acquisition of Whole Foods Market. Cillicine voiced concern about...
Ankeny, IA — Embria Health Sciences has partnered with Gee Lawson to distribute its flagship ingredient, EpiCor, to countries in Western Europe including United Kingdom, Italy, France, Germany, Spain, the Scandinavia and Benelux regions. Gee Lawson is the Nutritional Division of LEHVOSS UK. Gee Lawson specializes in the sourcing, technical...
Harrison, NY — Long-time soft drinks distributor PepsiCo has been reported by Reuters to be in talks to purchase All Market Inc., the owner of leading coconut brand Vita Coco. PepsiCo is offering less than the $1 billion that All Market is seeking, according to the report. All Market owners...
Park City, UT — Nutraceutical International Corporation has entered into an agreement under which an affiliate of HGGC, LLC, a middle-market private equity firm, will acquire the company in a transaction valued at about $446 million that includes debt to be refinanced. Under the terms of the agreement, Nutraceutical stockholders...
Houston, TX — Qualitas Health has announced a long term, strategic partnership with the commercial crop producer Green Stream Farms in an effort to triple its algae production. This will allow the firm to achieve enough critical mass to become a sustainable omega-3 alternative worldwide at a commercial scale. “We...
East Rutherford, NJ — All shares of Mushroom Wisdom, Inc. have been acquired by Hokuto Corporation, one of Japan’s biggest mushroom cultivators with annual sales of about $600 million. The transaction also includes the acquisition of Sun Medica, Co., Ltd, an affiliate of Mushroom Wisdom as well as the transfer...
NattoPharma, a researcher and developer of vitamin K2 products based in Metuchen, NJ, has been awarded a grant by the Norwegian Research Council. The grant will be used to fund a 4-year project documenting how the absence or presence of vitamin K2, MK7 effects the metabolism of calcium in the...
