Articles by Amelia Kibbe
For Healthy Aging, Don’t Rule Out Basic Supplements
As the market and industry for natural products and supplements to combat, or better yet, prevent, the symptoms of aging expand to keep up with the demand of a growing customer base, new products with new claims find their ways to the shelves of retailers all the time. Although new development is not only great, ...
Healthy Aging: Don’t Wait Until You’re Old
Both manufacturers and retailers say the expanding healthy aging category is attracting younger consumers. You can see the advertisements almost any place you go—on billboards, in magazines, on social media, the television or over the radio: Phrases such as “look younger now” or “feel like your younger self” or “makes you look 10 years younger” ...
Aquamin—Fast Calcium From Seaweed
When most people think of calcium, images of milk and strong bones come to mind. But as David O’Leary, commercial manager of Marigot Ltd., an Irish-based company which specializes in Aquamin, a seaweed-derived mineral source, said, research shows that Aquamin (which includes calcium, magnesium and small amounts of other minerals) can help increase calcium metabolism. ...
Mineral Supplements: A New Look at Old Friends
Type the word “magnesium” into any internet search bar, and images of small mineral bottles and explanations of what the mineral does for the human body will pop up. So too, though, will list after list of the many benefits of the mineral: “15 Impressive Benefits of Magnesium,” “10 Evidence-based Health Benefits of Magnesium,” “13 ...
Private Labels Should Be Prominent
When you walk into Green Acres, a health foods store in Piscataway, NJ managed by Theo Kitschker, pass the register, go around a bend toward the right, and in front of you will be a wall of vitamins. That display is Green Acres’ private label, established in the 1990s. There are six shelves, with the ...
The Power of a Private Label
Keeping customers in the store is the primary goal of a house brand. The founders of Ironology Health Solutions approached Carl Marshbanks, the director of sales at Earth’s Creation, with a problem they were hoping he could help solve. For years they had offered information and advice about iron supplements for those suffering with iron ...
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