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Essential Formulas Updates Box Design for Dr. Ohhira’s Probiotics
Essential Formulas Incorporated (EFI, Texas) announced the launch of a redesigned packaging emphasizing streamlined, consumer-friendly product information for Dr. Ohhira’s Probiotics. While the updated box is new, the formula based on more than 30 years of research remains the same—the only three-year fermented whole-food supplement that consumers worldwide depend on for improved digestive and microbiome health, ...
Kroger and Alibaba Hold Business Development Talks
Chinese e-commerce and technology company Alibaba Group Holding Ltd and U.S. grocer Kroger Co. (Ohio) have had early discussions on working together, including a meeting in which U.S. executives traveled to China, a source familiar with the matter said, according to report on Reuters.com. The business development talks are at an initial stage, and it ...
Carlson Supports Wear Red Day With Retailers
Go Red for Women is the American Heart Association’s campaign to raise awareness about cardiovascular disease in women. Heart disease is the leading cause of death for women in the United States. Friday, Feb. 2, 2018 is National Wear Red Day. Thousands of individuals and companies are raising awareness about heart disease by wearing red. Illinois-based ...
Twinlab to Close Utah Facility
Twinlab Consolidated Holdings, Inc. (Boca Raton, FL) has announced that as part of improving operational efficiencies, it will transition the manufacturing of the balance of its products to strategic manufacturing partners. As a result, the company expects operations at Twinlab’s American Fork, UT facility will cease during the first half of 2018. “We are streamlining ...
Certified for Sport App Helps Find Safer Supplements
NSF International (Michigan), a global public health and safety organization, released its newly designed Certified for Sport app and website to help protect athletes and consumers from potentially harmful ingredients and athletic banned substances in dietary supplements. The app features enhanced search capabilities, side-by-side product comparisons and a UPC barcode scanner to find Certified for ...
The Daily Wellness Company Launches TruTag On-dose Identity Solution
TruTag Technologies (Kapolei, HI), a security and technology solution provider, announced that The Daily Wellness Company (Honolulu, HI) has launched the TruTag dosage-level product identity technology into its products in the United States, starting with its top-selling product, FertilityBlend for Women. TruTag Technologies improves the safety, traceability, and authenticity of pharmaceuticals and nutraceuticals with its ...
Whole Foods Places New Limits on Suppliers
Whole Foods Market is placing new limits on how products are sold in its stores and asking suppliers to help pay for the changes, riling some mom-and-pop vendors that have long depended on the grocer for visibility and shelf space, according to a report by The Washington Post. The changes, outlined in an email recently ...
Natural Grocers Launches Resolution Reset Day on Jan. 19
Every January, 45 percent of all Americans—or 135 million people—make New Year’s resolutions. Research shows approximately 80 percent, or 108 million, of those resolutions will fail by February. Natural Grocers (Colorado) is resolving to help Americans with their 2018 goals by creating the first ever Resolution Reset Day at Natural Grocers on Friday, Jan. 19. ...
Nature’s Path Debuts Bright and Bold Branding
Canada-based Nature’s Path is making it easier for consumers to find its great tasting, healthy products with the introduction of a bold and bright new look. “We want our packaging to stand out and reflect how Nature’s Path is different from your standard, cereal and breakfast company,” said Arjan Stephens, executive vice president at Nature’s ...
Senator Hatch Announces Retirement
On January 2, the longest-serving Senate Republican, Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah announced that he would not seek re-election for an eighth term. Sen. Hatch, who formed and led the Dietary Supplement Caucus in the Senate, co-authored the landmark legislation that established a rational framework for regulating dietary supplements, the Dietary Supplement Health and Education ...
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