Retailing

IRI presents synced strategies to offset gradual decline of in-store grocery displays

07-Dec-2022 By Asia Sherman

Shoppers are back in stores, but displays have yet to return to their pre-pandemic levels, according to Information Resources, Inc. (IRI).

Countdown to ‘Changes in Retail’

25-Jan-2021 By Danielle Masterson

The Sports & Active Nutrition Summit 2021 goes live this week, with the opening act focused on retail.

Are you ready for ‘Changes in Retail’?

22-Jan-2021 By Danielle Masterson

The Sports & Active Nutrition Summit 2021 goes live next week, kicking off with ‘Changes in Retail’ on Thursday, January 28.

GNC succeeds in getting critical debt payment pushed back to August

15-May-2020 By Hank Schultz

Supplement retailing giant GNC seems to have prevailed in its high stakes negotiations with its lenders. Bloomberg Law reported yesterday that the company won a postponement until August of a major payment that could have caused the company to sink into...

GNC turns up volume on bankruptcy alarm

12-May-2020 By Hank Schultz

Struggling supplement retailer GNC has reiterated a forthright statement that filing for bankruptcy court protection might be only days away.

Private label, CBD launches help drive Natural Grocers’ profits

18-Nov-2019 By Hank Schultz

Private label offerings and a successful CBD launch are helping Natural Grocers show a solid profit, according to company executives.

How the changing retail landscape is changing sports nutrition product development

16-Aug-2019 By Adi Menayang

This week, two sports nutrition brands announced new mass retail partners—Optimum Nutrition goes to a club store, while Redcon1 partners with an outdoor and sporting goods store.

Jet.com first US partner for UK personalized nutrition company Spoon Guru

06-Jun-2019 By Adi Menayang

British company Spoon Guru, which uses artificial intelligence to help retailers offer consumers a personalized nutrition shopping experience, has announced Walmart-owned Jet.com as its first US partner.

Redcon1 expands distribution in military channel

04-Jan-2019 By Adi Menayang

Roughly 38% of sports nutrition brand Redcon1’s core consumers are active or former military members, “so they play an important role in our business,” said company founder and CEO Aaron Singerman.

Vitamin Shoppe Q3: New category introduction props up flat to declining sales

12-Nov-2018 By Adi Menayang

Vitamin Shoppe’s Q3 reflected retail trends in the dietary supplements sector—online sales continue to grow while bricks-and-mortar are flat to declining. The company closed three stores this quarter.

NEWS IN BRIEF

Sports nutrition brand Ascent continues grocery channel expansion with Wegmans deal

07-Nov-2018 By Adi Menayang

Sports nutrition continues its penetration into the grocery channel as Ascent inks distribution deal with East Coast grocery retailer Wegmans.

The Vitamin Shoppe introduces vendor incubation program called Launchpad

31-Jul-2018 By Adi Menayang

Nutritional product retailer The Vitamin Shoppe announced the launch of a new incubation program called Launchpad. It is currently accepting submissions.

Blackmores CEO exclusive: 'New retail' a fascinating opportunity for international supplement brands in China

10-Jul-2018 By Gary Scattergood

China's 'new retail' phenomenon — whereby companies like Alibaba seek to converge e-commerce insights with bricks-and-mortar retail operations — could provide as many opportunities for supplement brands as it has done for food firms, Blackmores...

Redcon1's nationwide Vitamin Shoppe distribution hints at shifting sports nutrition strategy for the retailer

22-May-2018 By Adi Menayang

To Redcon1's CEO and founder, the newly-inked nationwide distribution deal with legacy retailer Vitamin Shoppe is a testament to his brand, and an indicator of change for the retailer.

China's Feihe International completes acquisition of Vitamin World

24-Jan-2018 By Adi Menayang

Chinese dairy and infant formula specialist Feihe International has completed its acquisition of US retailer Vitamin World for an undisclosed sum.

Blackmores CEO exclusive, part one: 'We can't rely on e-commerce alone for China success'

31-Oct-2017 By Gary Scattergood

Blackmores' long-term fortunes in China will be dependent on establishing a successful retail business alongside its current thriving cross-border e-commerce sales, its new CEO told us in an exclusive interview.

Expanding to convenience stores, Glanbia Performance Nutrition ramps up grab-and-go sports nutrition portfolio

20-Oct-2017 By Adi Menayang

There was a time when sports drinks at convenience stores meant electrolyte drinks like Gatorade… and that was about it. Soon, products from specialty sports nutrition staples like Optimum Nutrition, BSN, and Isopure will also be available at convenience...

Hartman Group: Don’t downplay the online threat

Could traditional supermarkets disappear in 20 years?

07-Sep-2017 By Elaine Watson

As the immediate shock of the Amazon Whole Foods deal wears off, and spooked retailers are reassured that just 1% of US food and beverage retail sales are generated online,* they would be wise to remember that not all growth curves are linear, says Hartman...

Canadian brand NU LIFE Therapeutics enters US market with The Vitamin Shoppe partnership

31-Jul-2017 By Adi Menayang

NU LIFE Therapeutics, a 50-year old Canadian brand, will enter the US market for the first time through an exclusive partnership with The Vitamin Shoppe.

Jet acquisition helps fuel Walmart's surge in online vitamin sales

20-Jul-2017 By Hank Schultz

Walmart, not Amazon, was the driver of a 20% increase in online vitamin sales in 2016, according to research firm TABS Analytics.

Vitamin World revamps online commerce infrastructure

12-Jul-2017 By Adi Menayang

Retailer Vitamin World has partnered with Visionet Systems to transform its digital commerce infrastructure, with a strong focus on seamlessly integrating their online channel, brick-and-mortar stores and backend supply chain processes.

Vitamin vending machines: Is this the future for supplements retailing in APAC?

14-Feb-2017 By Millette Burgos

The man who has launched Australia’s first store selling vitamins solely via vending machines wants to launch hundreds more in locations across the country, while also expanding to overseas markets such as China, Singapore, India and New Zealand.

Vitamin Shoppe to revamp outlets as 'wellness' locations, restricts expansion plans

03-Nov-2016 By Hank Schultz

Vitamin Shoppe is embarking on a plan to revamp existing stores as ‘wellness locations’ with in-store beverage bars, sampling counters and the possible addition of perishable items. The plan also calls for a drastic slowdown in the pace of new store...

MegaFood’s ZingMojo summit explores the central role of natural retailers for health & wellness in their community

02-Sep-2016 By Stephen Daniells

Natural retailers face many challenges, but demographic and technology changes are also creating opportunities, many of which were explored at a recent summit hosted by MegaFood.

CEO Archbold leaves GNC amid falling revenue, same-store sales declines

28-Jul-2016 By Hank Schultz

GNC ousted Mike Archbold as CEO early today as a result of the company’s continued poor financial performance. In its second quarter 2016 results, released this morning, the company reported year over year revenue decreases and same-store sales declines.

Vitamin Shoppe’s Q1: Strong growth for probiotics, declines for sports nutrition, on-the-go nutrition & weight management

04-May-2016 By Stephen Daniells

The Vitamin Shoppe has reported total revenue has remained flat, with total comparable sales declining 1.9% in its first quarter results. E-commerce grew by almost 4%.

RangeMe teams up with the Healthy & Natural Show

08-Apr-2016

RangeMe, an online platform which streamlines new product discovery between suppliers and retailers, has teamed up with FoodNavigator-USA's publisher William Reed Business Media to help facilitate new product discovery at The Healthy and Natural...

'Social retailing' model used to popularize fiber/probiotic blend

29-Mar-2016 By Hank Schultz

Regular Girl, a prebiotic-probiotic blended product, is debuting on the market via a “social retailing” model that is low risk for retailers and attractive for consumers, the brand holder believes.

NBTY sells Vitamin World to Centre Lane Partners

03-Feb-2016 By Adi Menayang

To focus on its portfolio of products, NBTY sells its retail component Vitamin World to Centre Lane Partners.

Which supplement brands are people buying online?

02-Oct-2015 By Stephen DANIELLS

Online is increasingly a vital outlet for supplements, but which brands rule the internet, what’s their share, and how do they differ between the retailers online?

NBTY's acquisition of Dr Organic mirrors trend in supplement industry toward personal care

26-Aug-2015 By Hank Schultz

Dietary supplement manufacturing giant NBTY has acquired UK skincare line Dr Organic, a move that mirrors a trend in the supplement industry toward higher margin personal care offerings.

VitHit vitamin drink takes simple health message global

08-Jul-2015 By Annie Harrison-Dunn

Simple health branding and attractive flavours are what will take vitamin drink VitHit global, its founder and director says.

Is the $35 billion figure for the dietary supplements industry over-inflated?

21-May-2015 By Stephen Daniells

The US dietary supplements industry is only worth about $12 billion, according to Dr Kurt Jetta, CEO and founder of the TABS Group.

Special Edition: View from the aisles: The retailers’ perspective

What role do branded ingredients play at retail?

23-Apr-2015 By Stephen Daniells

Ingredient suppliers can spend a lot of time and money differentiating their products but how do they communicate with the consumer, what issues are important to retailers, and is the investment worth it?

NPA calls for 22nd Annual Awards nominations

26-Feb-2015

The Natural Products Association (NPA) is now accepting nominations for its 22nd Annual NPA Awards to salute industry pioneers and leaders for their accomplishments in science, environmental issues, advocacy, social responsibility, and the industry at...

Negative media and a lack of innovation: Vitamin Shoppe CEO on ’positive’ but ‘lower than expected’ Q3 results

05-Nov-2014 By Stephen DANIELLS

Supplement retailing giant Vitamin Shoppe has reported a 3.1% increase in comparable retail store sales and a 10.5% increase in e-commerce sales, but despite this positive performance 'comparable sales were at the low end of our expectations',...

Jeff Bland and Elwood Richard among annual NPA award honorees

04-Sep-2014 By Stephen DANIELLS

Elwood Richard, the founder and former president of NOW Foods, and Jeffrey Bland, PhD, a leader in nutritional medicine, are just two of the ‘top-tier professionals in the natural products industry’ to be honored by the Natural Products Association at...

NPA's Fabricant: Growth of online supplement sales means pie is getting bigger

09-Jul-2014 By Hank Schultz

Kroger’s purchase of online retailing giant Vitacost.com is part of ongoing retailing consolidation in the dietary supplements and natural foods business. But rather than viewing this process with alarm, as is often the case with smaller brick-and-mortar...

Targeted digital marketing helps company succeed in brick-and-mortar space

12-Dec-2013 By Hank Schultz

NutraClick, a Boston, MA-based nutritional products company, has found success building its business model on a targeted online advertising strategy. The company was so successful, in fact, that a major chain came to them to request they place their products...

The FoodNavigator-USA business leaders round table debate

Who is driving innovation in the US food & beverage market? Find out at the FoodNavigator-USA business leaders round table debate

12-Dec-2013 By Elaine WATSON

What are the hottest trends in food and beverage? And are the big bucks really in blue-sky innovation, or have the most successful firms played with an existing concept and just done a better job at executing, marketing and selling it?

Vitamin Shoppe: ‘Private label is an important growth opportunity for us’

06-Nov-2013 By Stephen DANIELLS

Growth in private label and one of its recently launched MyTrition products already a top selling product, Vitamin Shoppe is planning more new product introductions by year end, said the company’s CEO.

Vitamin Shoppe expands into Panama

26-Mar-2013 By Hank Schultz

Vitamin Shoppe Inc. continues its rapid expansion with the opening of its first international franchised Vitamin Shoppe store in Panama City. Vitamin Shoppe now has more than 600 retail locations across the United States, and recently expanded into Canada.