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Living History at Willner ChemistsWillner Chemists opened its doors in New York City in 1911, at the intersection of 39th and Lexington, as an old-fashioned, neighborhood drugstore much like any other. Patrons could get their prescriptions filled, questions answered and perhaps, as the store proclaims on its now extensive website, “a refreshing pause at the ...
Functional Drinks: Drowning in their Own Success?
Like so Many other categories featured in the aisles of a natural products store, the functional beverage market is booming in some ways and leveling off in others. According to market researcher Mintel, the peak of the category in terms of product introductions occurred in 2008, when 720 new functional beverages were released, up 43 ...
Immune Support: The Best Defense
Powerful as it is, the immune system cannot fend off every germ pthat comes its way. According to a Harvard Medical School Special Health report entitled “The Truth About Your Immune System,” nearly 53,000 people in the United States die of influenza or pneumonia annually, making those diseases together the eighth leading cause of death. ...
Positive Real Function
With more realistic goals set by manufacturers, consumers are embracing functional foods. After a learning curve, the category is moving in the right direction.Food science and technology advances or a waning of the increasing consumer appetite for foods that may bolster natural defenses, the functional food sector has every expectation to grow.Roman Shuster, research analyst ...
Special Section: Top Retailers
Setting the Standard in OhioMustard Seed Market & Café (Montrose and Solon, OH) • Years in Business: 29 • Store Count: 2 Owners: Margaret and Phillip NaborsTwenty-nine years ago, Margaret and Phillip Nabors founded the Mustard Seed Market & Café with strict ingredient standards: no artificial colors, flavorings or harmful chemical preservatives, no saccharin or ...
Keeping A Category Afloat
EFAs may be more popular than ever, surpassing multivitamins with experienced supplement users. But recent Proposition 65 claims will act as a call to action for retailers and manufacturers to keep the positive light shining on this ever-growing category.Multivitamins, because of their very nature, have always been popular with newcomers to the industry and avid ...
2010 Vity Awards
Because we believe no one is better qualified to determine the industry’s best-selling products than the people who sell them, Vitamin Retailer once again polled its retailer readers on their top-selling products and best sales and merchandising support.What started in the 1990s has evolved into one of the most soughtafter awards in the natural products ...
The Great Enlightenment
Though naturally undergoing a decline as early as our 20s, memory can be retained. Retailers looking to aid in the fight against symptoms of cognitive decline must first begin by educating their customer base.We’ve all seen the devastating effects of cognitive decline.Diseases such as Alzheimer’s as well as other forms of dementia have left an ...
Building A Free Radical Defense
Antioxidants are big business and growing exponentially: the overall market for antioxidants was valued at a whopping $12 billion in 2009, according to Euromonitor International, and the number of products with ‘antioxidants inside’ style labels is mushrooming. According to Mintel’s Global New Products Database (GNPD), in 2009, there were 409 launches globally with ‘antioxidants’ flagged ...
Science of Supplements
This special section of Vitamin Retailer comes in response to the industry’s desire for more information—retailers wanting to know more about the products they sell and manufacturers, suppliers and private labelers wanting to offer the science that backs the effectiveness of their products.We have featured a similar section annually in Nutrition Industry Executive since 2002, ...
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