Natural Products Expo West Blooms Amid Economic Collapse
Well every March hope springs eternal in Anaheim. No, NBN isn’t talking about some Disneyland parking lot attendant hoping that this season he’ll get promoted to wearing a Mickey costume, we’re talking about the big organic kahuna New Hope’s Natural Products Expo West. We’ll have reports from the show, including what we hope is some […]
Whole Foods and The Federal Trade Commission Battle Royale
While NBN is a frequent critic of Whole Foods but the claim that they are creating a monopoly is baseless. Even for those of us who favor greater regulation of business this makes no sense.All the trends points to the opposite fact. Natural and organic products are everywhere. Products that once available only in natural […]
UNFI Michael Funk Steps Down
Michael Funk, the man who transformed distribution of natural and organic foods stepped down as CEO of United Natural Foods. The company named former Performance Food Group chief Steven Spinner as its new CEO and president. Funk will be chairman of the Board and will remain actively involved in strategic growth initiatives and key customer […]
Nature’s Way to Purchase Enzymatic Therapy from North Castle Partners
Utah based Nature’s Way, a subsidiary of German natural therapeutics producer Schwabe Pharmaceuticals agreed to purchase Enzymatic Therapy from the company’s controlling shareholder North Castle Partners. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/081015/ny39256.html?.v=1
New York Times Jane Brody Asks about Vitamin B12 Supplementation
My mother loved Jane Brody but still took plenty of vitamins during her long life. We don’t feel the same way about her. Let us know what you think. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/14/health/14brod.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&ref=science&adxnnlx=1224100852-XG2nXVp0fJup5XpTOxE36A
TerraCycle Transforms Middle Age Cynic into Youthful Idealist
One of the humbling things about straddling the line between the Baby Boomers and Generation X isn’t getting older. After all as far as we’ve understood that’s the only option unless you have a real hankering to become worm food. No the humbling part is coming to realize that so many of those things your […]
Whole Foods UK Division Loses 10 Million Pounds
Whole Foods sees £10m loss in first year http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/investing-and-markets/article.html?in_article_id=449053&in_page_id=3&position=moretopstories
ABC News On Supplements
More mainstream media coverage on supplements. We’ll zip our lip because NBN has gotten tired of talking too much. Okay maybe we’re just really busy today. http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=5304089&page=1
Hain Irwin Simon Rings NASDAQ Bell
Hain Celestial Food’s Irwin Simon rang the bell at the NASDAQ floor June 18th. While we don’t think the high-stress traders were given any organic snacks they probably could use them. The few traders we know eat nothing but junk. Kudos to the crew at Hain.
Sustainable Seafood Ratings From Greenpeace
You might say that life in this modern world gets a bit more complicated by the day. Free-range isn’t all that free, and some organic might be about as corporate as Kellogg’s Snap, Crackle and Pop. The current conundrum — determining which seafood is best to buy, gets a little clearer with some help from […]
