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New Hope Network Acquired Nutrition Capital Network

December 21, 2016

Boulder, CO — New Hope Network, part of Informa PLC, has acquired the assets of San Diego, CA-based Nutrition Capital Network (NCN). NCN was found in 2007 and facilitates financing, partnering and asset sales for growth companies in the natural products, nutrition and health and wellness industry by connecting investors...

GNC to Relaunch as One New GNC

December 20, 2016

WholeFoods Magazine Staff

Pittsburg, PA — GNC Holdings Inc., a leading supplier of vitamins and supplements, announced that it would soon be offering its customers an improved shopping experience, One New GNC. Current corporate stores will be closing their doors on Wednesday, December 28th and will be reopening on Thursday, December 29th with...

6 Steps for Starting a Successful Dietary Supplement Line

November 22, 2016

WholeFoods Magazine Staff

Step 1: Define Your Target Customer When I talk to new entrepreneurs, one of the most common oversights they make is being unable to link their product idea to actual consumers interested in buying it. When it comes to determining your market segment, some of the biggest mistakes new entrepreneurs...

Grocery Briefs: September 2016

August 18, 2016

WholeFoods Magazine Staff

French dairy company Danone, marketed in the United States as the Dannon Company, acquired Denver, CO-based WhiteWave Foods Co. for $10.4 billion, making this the company’s biggest acquisition in a decade. With brands that include Horizon Organic milk, Wallaby Organic yogurt and Earthbound Farm packaged salad, top sellers in their...

Emotional Value

August 16, 2016

Jay Jacobowitz, President & Founder, Retail Insights

With the Internet putting extreme pressure on the way you’ve always done business, it’s easy to feel helpless. First, take a moment to console yourself that you are not alone. Virtually every business in every industry has had to rethink and restructure its business model to continue to compete in...

The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

June 14, 2016

Jay Jacobowitz, President & Founder, Retail Insights

People of a certain age will remember The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, a now-classic 1966 Clint Eastwood spaghetti Western where good-guy gunslinger Eastwood teams up with a bad guy gunslinger to find a buried cache of stolen Confederate gold during the American Civil War. The messy plot, with...