Hain Celestial Continues to Impress Wall Street
The Hain Celestial Group has become the darling of Wall Street even though its growth through acquisition strategy is making less and less sense (unless of course you think buying not one, not two but three natural body care companies is wise). Turns out the fusionists love the company too. Okay well maybe it’s just […]
Poor Research Concludes Antioxidants Are Dangerous, Maybe Deadly
JAMA Antioxidant Study Kills Us Or Why We Still LOVE Our Antioxidants The recent study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) is bad science and worse public relations for the supplement industry. If you haven’t heard about it don’t think you missed something. Because taking a selective group of studies that […]
Biodynamic Keeps Getting Bigger In Europe
Word from folks who attended BIOFAC last month, the European Organic Trade show held annually in Nurnberg, Germany told NBN that more and more products were certified biodynamic this year. While Biodynamic certification is virtually unheard of among large manufacturers, NBN expects more U.S. to follow suit, especially as they seek to distinguish their products […]
Tesco’s U.S. Launch Has Whole Foods Worried
American grocers are nervously awaiting Tesco’s opening of their “Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Markets” in the U.S. Tesco’s plans include opening locations in Southern California, Arizona, Nevada and possibly Colorado. While initially billed by the retailer as a new type of convenience store, the format more closely resembles a hybrid that combines the best of […]
FDA Drafts Guidelines to Regulate Supplements, Herbs as Drugs
Once again the FDA has issued guidelines that would allow it to regulate non-toxic, supplements and herbal products. This Monday the FDA announced via a document posted on its website a new “guidance” document, plans to reclassify virtually all vitamins, supplements, herbs and even vegetable juices as FDA-regulated drugs. Massage oils and massage rocks will […]
This Just In From Pork Magazine—Hormel Offers Natural Line Of Meats
Well the world really is changing when the folks who make SPAM and a whole world of processed pork, beef and poultry ‘partakings’ have announced a new line of all-natural sandwich meats and ham products. As reported in the above mentioned magazine, PORK (ah don’t you love trade publication)Hormel’s Natural Choice line is low fat, […]
Finally A TV Commercial For A Supplement Product
While we don’t believe that Big Pharma will worry too much about this, we were thrilled to see some well-done TV advertisements for a nutritional supplement company. While watching the boob tube (don’t tell my mom I was eating a pint of ice cream at the time) NBN looked up from his pint of chocolate […]
Poison Pet Food—Its Like Alar On Apples
Why Its Time To Start Educating Consumers Well I love my cats almost more than myself. And yes I feed them the good natural stuff too, without preservatives and probably better for humans than most of the crackers at my local supermarket. Turns out that the unfortunate pet-poisoning incident has been a boom for natural […]
Vitamin E, Echinacea Continue to Lose Sales
As regular readers of NBN know (and if you’re not a regular reader get with it!) starting in 2005 and continuing in 2006 the media was rife ongoing reports over the inefficacy of nutritional supplements with Vitamin E and Echinacea bearing the brunt of the bad press. Studies about these were widely reported, overstated and […]
Overheard at Expo West—A Small Compilation of the Humurous and Inane
Overheard at the Expo At a leading personal care booth: “Why should I give you a sample for your girlfriend? She isn’t my bitch.” Note: We think this was a joke. At the Clif Bar booth: “Everybody tells me I have a really great ass?” At the Kettle Chips booth: “Tastes like potato chips.” At […]
