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Vitamin Retailer’s 2017 Best New Products
For the 10th consecutive year, VR editors and retailers assembled the year’s best new natural products on the market! Ten years ago, Vitamin Retailer (VR) magazine decided to honor the year’s top products. The staff reviewed hundreds of press releases and products spotted at trade shows launched in late 2016 through 2017 to determine the ...
Something to Think About
Sustaining cognitive abilities is more than a desire today; it’s a need, as lives are busier than ever. Here’s why emphasizing this category is a good thought. All your customers can be brainiacs. And it’s a sure bet that most want to be. Our cognitive demands are wider, deeper and more sustained than ever. In ...
The Evolution of Letter Vitamins & Multiples
Retailers can expect new developments from well-established letter and multivitamins. Today, there are 13 known essential or letter vitamins. On its website, WebMD provides a breakdown of their functions—nine of which are water soluble and the remaining four being fat soluble. In short, the water soluble ones (B vitamins and vitamin C) travel throughout the ...
Supporting Healthy Blood Sugar
With a variety of products available and more knowledgeable consumers, retailers want to keep up to date when it comes to information on maintaining healthy blood sugar levels. Type 2 diabetes is a serious global health issue; understanding the problem is a first step toward finding a solution. “It is a syndrome of disordered metabolism, ...
Relishing Sleep
Consumers turn to natural products for less worry and more shut-eye. If one was to ask a random adult about one of his or her health concerns, one response might be, “Why can’t I get more sleep?” This is a fair question. According to the American Sleep Association (ASA), adults need seven to nine hours ...
Boosting Wellness with Natural Immune Support
To provide preventative measures to help maintain the immune system, the immune health supplement market is expected to witness outstanding growth between now and 2021, according to a recent article by Persistence Market Research titled Immune Health Supplements Market: Global Industry Analysis and Forecast 2015—2021. At the retail store Autumn Harvest in Scotch Plains, NJ, ...
Innovating Children’s Health
From tasty gummies to “stealth health” products, providing quality supplements for children can pose a challenge. Here’s how manufacturers and retailers are catering to kids as well as their parents. Children can represent a variety of different of meanings, such as innocence, love, joy and rebellion. Although the childhood phase only lasts a limited number ...
Aging Gracefully – and Vibrantly
Growing older can be a great experience when your customers create a healthful regimen based on supplements that may counteract or stave the internal aging processes. Although “youth is wasted on the young,” getting old doesn’t have to stink. In fact, it is a blessing. Living life is acquiring experiences and knowledge, and giving of ...
Essential Good Fats
While awareness of the benefits of omega-3s is high, many still are not getting enough of them. An expanding selection of supplements can help. Across the globe, consumers are turning to natural products more than ever—especially essential fatty acids (EFAs), such as omega-3 and 6. And because our bodies can’t produce all the fats we ...
2017 Retailer of the Year: Sprouts Farmers Market
Recently called “the most attractive, high-growth retail assets today” by Barrons.com, fast-growing Sprouts Farmers Market keeps its focus on healthy living for less. In July of 2002, Sprouts opened its first store in Chandler, AZ. Fifteen years later, the retailer has seen phenomenal growth—by the end of August 2017, Sprouts’ total store count will be ...
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