Canada
Nature’s Way and Natural Products Canada Sign Investment Agreement
Nature’s Way (Green Bay, WI) and Natural Products Canada (NPC) have signed an agreement to co-invest in innovative natural health product opportunities in Canada. The output of this partnership will continue to feed consumers’ needs for natural product solutions, a category that is already growing +5 percent in Canada. “We are very excited to explore ...
Nestlé Extends Consumer Health Care Portfolio With Garden of Life
On December 5, Nestlé announced that it agreed to acquire privately held Atrium Innovations, a global leader in nutritional health products—including the Garden of Life brand— from a group of investors led by Permira Funds for $2.3 billion in cash. Atrium’s 2017 sales are expected to reach almost $700 million. The move supports Nestlé’s pursuit of growth ...
Trace Minerals Research’s Concentrace Wins Silver Medal for Best Mineral From National Nutrition
Trace Minerals Research (TMR, Utah) announced that ConcenTrace Trace Mineral Drops has been awarded a Silver Medal in the Best Mineral category by National Nutrition, an online retail store located in Orillia, Ontario, Canada with more than 50 team members and over 25 years of experience in the Canadian natural products industry. “It is such ...
Leadership Award to Honor Organic Entrepreneur
A Canadian entrepreneur and hemp food pioneer will be honored as a “Rising Star” in the organic sector at the 2016 Organic Leadership Awards dinner in September hosted by the Organic Trade Association (OTA). Selected to receive the Organic Rising Star Award, Mike Fata of Canada-based Manitoba Harvest Hemp Foods first became involved in the ...
Health Canada Blocks Stop-Smoking Ad for Natural Lozenge
According to The Globe and Mail, a Canadian news outlet, Health Canada set out to drive a Canadian-made stop-smoking aid from the market after a complaint from Pfizer Canada Inc., a pharmaceutical company that makes competing products, a judge found. In its first few months on the market, a lozenge called Resolve, billed as a natural ...
CBC Retracts Supplement Report
According to CBC News, a news division of Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, some Marketplace reports about vitamins and supplements published in November contained incorrect information. This past fall, Marketplace commissioned lab testing for samples of fish oil, vitamin C and protein powder supplements to see if consumers are actually getting what they pay for. Based on those test results, Marketplace reported that Emergen-C ...
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