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Fresh Thyme Market Relaunches Own Brand Portfolio
On Feb. 25, Fresh Thyme Market (Downers Grove, IL) announced the relaunch of its Own Brand portfolio. The reignited portfolio will feature expanded trend-forward products, recharged packaging and an evolved strategy to make high-quality, better for you and local choices more accessible to today’s customers. As part of the relaunch, Fresh Thyme is focusing on ...
Nature’s Way Introduces “Innovation Challenge”
On Feb. 20, Nature’s Way (Green Bay, WI) launched its Innovation Challenge, a collaborative platform designed to provide funding and expert support to emerging scientific innovators while helping to bring groundbreaking ideas to market. According to the company, the program will elevate emerging leaders in the field and drive product innovation across key areas, shaping the ...
2024 Best New Products
For the 17th consecutive year, Vitamin Retailer, with the guidance of a retailer panel, assembled the year’s best new natural products. Seventeen years ago, Vitamin Retailer (VR) magazine decided to honor the year’s top products by asking for opinions from independent natural product, vitamin and supplement retailers. The objective was for stores to offer feedback ...
iHerb Brings Martha Stewart Wellness to Its Global Assortment
iHerb (Irvine, CA) announced the addition of three new supplement products from Martha Stewart, Marquee Brands and Project #1 Nutrition. The new line comprises Marine Wellness Collagen, Wellness Greens and Wellness Red, and will be available to iHerb customers in more than 180 countries. “Martha’s well publicized morning juicing regimen and her ongoing influence in ...
NOW Again Honored as a “Great Place to Work”
NOW (Bloomingdale, IL) was again honored as being a “Great Place to Work” by the National Association for Business Resources in their Summer 2023 Best and Brightest Companies to Work For. NOW was honored in three separate categories: 2023 Best and Brightest Companies to Work For in the Nation (12th consecutive year) One of the ...
Natural Doesn’t Always Mean Harmless
Vitamin Retailer spoke with Vancouver-Washington-based physician Zora De Grandpre, ND, who serves as an expert for Leafreport, which is based in Tel Aviv, Israel, www.leafreport.com. She offers some general cautionaries for retailers and the natural products industry, at large: While most natural products have mild to moderate adverse effects, it is obviously incorrect to think ...
Dr. Bronner’s Launches Campaign in Support of Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy
California-based Dr. Bronner’s, family-owned maker of a natural brand of soap in North America, has launched its Heal Soul campaign to support public education efforts, advocacy organizations, and political campaigns around the country working to mainstream psychedelic-assisted therapy and medicines to treat depression, PTSD, addiction and end-of-life anxiety. The company has donated over $3 million ...
Industry Urges FDA to Define “Natural”
The American Herbal Products Association (AHPA) submitted comments to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) encouraging the agency to establish, through rulemaking, a regulatory definition for the term “natural” (and possibly other terms, such as “100% natural” and “made with natural [named ingredient(s)]”) for the labeling of human food products, and other products regulated by ...
Skintillating!
Recharge your natural beauty selection. “Fresh.” “Clean.” “All natural.” These are the most common—and powerful—descriptors used in commercial advertising for skin and related beauty products. Like makeup that’s been smeared, the line between “healthy and natural” skin and beauty products versus “conventional” becomes more indistinct, as mass market and department store products have long ago ...
NPA Welcomes FDA Process to Define “Natural”
The Natural Products Association (NPA) responded to recent steps taken by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to define the term “natural” on food labels. “It’s about time that natural be defined by experts and no Madison Avenue ad executives,” said Dan Fabricant, PhD, executive director and CEO of the NPA. “NPA strongly supports ...
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