Tree of Life To Be Sold—UNFI Purported Suitor
While not as mighty as General Motors, to those who grew up in the industry during the 1980’s Tree of Life’s demise signals the complete transformation of the industry. Consolidation is king! Once upon a time natural distribuors were regional, all with the exception of Tree. Rock Island and Stow Mills in the Northeast, Mountain […]
Hartman Group on Tesco’s Fresh and Easy Failure
While we were among those who initially reported that U.K. giant Tesco’s willingness to spend up to $1 billion dollars to enter the U.S. had Whole Foods bigwigs shaking in their granola boots we were wrong. We got our proverbial viewfinder in by the market research mavens at the Hartman Group last February. In their Tesco White […]
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
