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Whole Foods to Cut Medical Benefits for Part-time Workers
Whole Foods is cutting medical benefits for hundreds of part-time workers, the Texas-based retailer confirmed. The changes will take effect on Jan. 1 and affect just under 2 percent of Whole Foods’ total workforce. Whole Foods has about 95,000 employees, so it means about 1,900 people will lose benefits. The benefits that the company is ...
The Vitamin Shoppe Launches Personalized Vitamin and Supplement Subscription Service
The Vitamin Shoppe announced the launch of Only Me, a personalized online assessment that delivers a custom assortment of vitamins and supplements to participating subscribers each month. The new subscription service from The Vitamin Shoppe provides customers with a wellness regimen tailored to their individual health and lifestyle needs, while offering products from The Vitamin ...
GNC Expands Presence in Brazil
GNC Holdings Inc. (Pennsylvania) announced its partnership with BFG Brasil Comercial de Vitaminas LTDA, a professional retail operator, to help expand the company’s presence in Brazil. Specializing in the operation and management of major retail brands in Brazil, the partnership will allow GNC to grow its franchise presence outside the United States and reach more ...
ChildLife Essentials Launches New Website
California-based ChildLife Essentials, nutritional liquid supplements for infants and children developed by Dr. Murray Clarke, announced the launch of its newly revamped website. This redesigned site offers an easy navigation structure where users can learn about ChildLife Essentials, including the products they offer and their benefits to children’s health. The new website has a clean, ...
NOW Acquires SuperNutrition
NOW (Illinois) has acquired SuperNutrition (California), which offers a brand of multivitamin SKUs that are high potency, scientifically formulated and targeted by need. SuperNutrition was started by Patrick Mooney and his son, Michael Mooney, and remained a family business led by Patrick’s daughter Kathy Mooney. NOW expects to expand the SuperNutrition line, while keeping the ...
HIPPEAS Makes Pledge to Whole Kids Foundation
New York-based makers of plant-based snacks, HIPPEAS Organic Chickpea Puffs, is donating up to $50,000 to Texas-based Whole Kids Foundation, a nonprofit founded by Whole Foods Market. The company’s contribution is affiliated with the organization’s annual “Growing Healthy Kids Campaign,” and will be invested to support grants for school gardens, salad bars and beehives, helping 7.3 million ...
Nestlé Health Science Expands Into Personalized Nutrition
Switzerland-based Nestlé Health Science (NHSc) is expanding into personalized nutrition with the acquisition of Persona (Washington), a vitamin business founded in 2017. Persona will operate under NHSc’s USA-based Atrium Professional Brands. “Persona’s expertise in personalized nutrition brings a new dimension to the growing Nestlé Health Science portfolio,” said Greg Behar, CEO of Nestlé Health Science. “There’s increasing interest in personalization among consumers ...
The Simply Good Foods Company to Acquire Quest Nutrition
The Simply Good Foods Company, a Colorado-based developer, marketer and seller of branded nutritional foods and snacking products, and California-based Quest Nutrition, LLC, a healthy lifestyle food company, announced that the companies have entered into a definitive agreement under which Simply Good Foods will acquire Quest for $1 billion in cash, or approximately $870 million net of ...
Sprouts Expands Instacart Grocery Pickup to Phoenix Area
Families in and around Phoenix looking to save time and money while shopping for healthy groceries can now place orders for thousands of fresh, natural and organic products on delivery.sprouts.com to be picked up at participating Sprouts (Arizona) locations. The Phoenix Valley is the latest and largest market to receive Sprouts’ “click and collect” services through Instacart. The ...
NPA Files For Bankruptcy
The Natural Products Association (NPA), which said it is the largest and oldest U.S. nonprofit dedicated to the natural products industry, filed for bankruptcy protection yesterday, citing six straight years of losses and a costly arbitration with a former chief financial officer. CEO and President Daniel Fabricant, PhD said in a filing with the U.S. ...
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