Supply Chain Management

NutraIngredients-USA recognizes ‘game changing’ BAPP ‘Burn it, Don’t return it’ SOP as Industry Initiative of the Year

18-Jul-2023 By Stephen Daniells

The ABC-AHP-NCNPR Botanical Adulterants Prevention Program (BAPP) is having a real-world impact on the quality of consumer products in the marketplace, and NutraIngredients-USA was delighted to recognize its Best Practices SOP for the Disposal / Destruction...

NutraCast: Supporting women in India and across the supply chain

07-Jul-2023 By Danielle Masterson

India’s rich heritage of traditional medicine like Ayurveda has made the country a powerful player in the natural products industry. As such, Women In Nutraceuticals (WIN) recently announced the appointment of Rajat Shah as Global liaison in India, marking...

Growing consumer pressures driving sustainability in the nutrition industry

26-Jun-2023 By Olivia Haslam

Consumer and legislative pressures, and scarcity of ingredients will be the three main drivers for nutraceutical companies to become more sustainable, according to Monique van der Vijve, innovation manager at Solidaridad, the global sustainability organisation....

NutraCast: Incorporating weather forecasting into business models

24-Mar-2023 By Danielle Masterson

Heavy rain, droughts, record-breaking early blooms and even a recent blizzard warning in California..all alarming indicators that Mother Nature is off kilter. Climate Change is a slow-moving crisis that’s catching up quickly, and for some companies, long-term...

STATE OF THE INDUSTRY SURVEY

State of the US Dietary Supplements sector in 2023

15-Mar-2023 By Stephen Daniells

Are supply chains still causing problems for businesses? What are the hottest ingredients and most sought-after product claims? And do people really think about FDA’s recent actions against ingredients like NAC and NMN?

2022 Saw Palmetto harvest largely unaffected by Hurricane Ian

09-Mar-2023 By Stephen Daniells

Hurricane Ian battered the Florida peninsula at the same time as the annual Saw Palmetto harvest, but the crop fared well with minimal impacts on yields, experts tell NutraIngredients-USA.

5 take-aways we learned during our Business Leaders Forum

27-Jan-2023 By Stephen Daniells

From 2022 sales numbers to consumer enthusiasm remaining high, and from progress with equality and diversity in the industry to the growth in awareness around the importance of the microbiome for health, there were lots of talking points from our 3rd...

This Wednesday! Hear directly from the CEOs of NOW, Nouri, Pharmavite & SuperGut

23-Jan-2023 By Stephen Daniells

From the state of the market to the impact of inflation, and from regulatory initiatives like mandatory product listing to equality and diversity in the industry, the NutraIngredients-USA’s Business Leaders Forum will dig deep into a range of industry...

AHPA’s McGuffin on supply chain, MPL, climate change, and more

22-Nov-2022 By Stephen Daniells

Supply chain issues appear to be easing for the herbal supplements sector, says Michael McGuffin, president of the American Herbal Products Association, but the key lesson from the past couple of years is that supply chain management is not simple.

Pharmavite to set up new gummy plant in Ohio

19-Jul-2022 By Danielle Masterson

The multi-million dollar move is expected to add over 200 new jobs in the Columbus area.

Inflation, supply chain issues accelerating retail transformation

02-Jun-2022 By Hank Schultz

The dietary supplement industry has often been billed as recession proof. But is it inflation proof? Attendees at a recent industry gathering weren’t so sure.

Renewed lockdowns in China creating many short- and long-term effects

17-May-2022 By Hank Schultz

Renewed lockdowns in China has thrown another wrench into the global supply of botanical ingredients. But having graduated from the recent school of hard knocks, suppliers are managing to cope, experts said.

Specialized supply chain helps Natural Grocers weather inflation storm

10-May-2022 By Hank Schultz

Natural Grocers said the supplier network and customer loyalty it has built up over years has enabled it to restrain inflationary cost increases and to pass on whatever price hikes are necessary onto consumers without much pushback, helping the company...

Best companies will prevail as CBD market goes through painful winnowing, CEO says

24-Feb-2022 By Hank Schultz

The hemp/CBD market is going through a reckoning but ultimately will emerge in a stronger position, said the head of one of few publicly traded companies in the sector.

Lessons from NutraIngredients-USA's Business Leaders Forum

02-Feb-2022 By Stephen Daniells

Ongoing category growth, evolving immunity positioning, reacting to social media, and the long-tail of supply chain issues were just some of the take-aways from our recent Business Leaders Forum, which brought together the CEOs of Pharmavite, NOW, and...

Hear directly from the CEOs of The Vitamin Shoppe, NOW & Pharmavite

06-Jan-2022 By Stephen Daniells

NutraIngredients-USA’s Business Leaders Forum is back, so sign up for FREE to get insights from CEOs from some of the industry’s leading companies.

The Business Leaders Forum is back! Join us in January for insights from the top

16-Dec-2021 By Stephen Daniells

Start 2022 with insights from CEOs from some of the industry’s leading companies in a wide-ranging, interactive, and FREE webinar on NutraIngredients-USA.

Nuherbs VP: Shipping issues unlikely to work themselves out until April 2022

24-Jun-2021 By Stephen Daniells

With over 80% of global trade transported by sea, ongoing issues and bottlenecks in global shipping will continue to impact international raw material and ingredients supplies, which could drag into Spring of 2022, says Wilson Lau, VP of Nuherbs.

Rhodiola supply: Experts call for control of international wild supply, recommend more cultivation

21-Jan-2021 By Stephen Daniells

Increasing demand for Rhodiola rosea L. – which is primarily from wild sources – is straining the global supply, and controls need to be introduced to monitor the trade of wild R. rosea, according to a new review.

Business Leaders Forum: Hear directly from the CEOs of The Vitamin Shoppe, Pharmavite, SmartyPants & NOW!

18-Jan-2021 By Stephen Daniells

Start 2021 with insights from CEOs of some of the industry’s leading companies in a wide-ranging, interactive, and FREE webinar on NutraIngredients-USA.

‘I’m not sure the current demand is a true reflection of what the market will support,’ says Gemini Pharma CEO

22-Apr-2020 By Stephen Daniells

Skyrocketing consumer interest in dietary supplements is placing increasing demands on a supply chain straining under national and international efforts to contain the novel Coronavirus, but could this be creating artificial demand?

Wiley’s Finest CEO on surging sales, the supply chain, and being ahead of the curve with innovative digital platforms

16-Apr-2020 By Stephen Daniells

NutraIngredients-USA spoke to Sam Wiley, CEO of Wiley's Finest, about the company's exceptional March (35% year-on-year growth), their strong oil stocks (but consumer goods bottles "cannot be found for any amount of money"), and why...

CORONAVIRUS: SPOTLIGHT ON THE SUPPLY CHAIN

ABC/ BAPP: ‘We are deeply concerned about the integrity of the botanical supply chains’

08-Apr-2020 By Stephen Daniells

As disruptions due to the novel Coronavirus ripple through global supply chains, plus FDA’s announcement that it is reducing inspections, the ABC-AHP-NCNPR Botanical Adulterants Prevention Program (BAPP) is urging buyers to be “more vigilant than ever”.

ChromaDex CEO: ‘Purchasing practices need to change to fix quality standards’

01-Mar-2017 By Stephen Daniells

Concerns about quality standards in the dietary supplements industry are not due to analytical testing, but due to poor supply chain management, says Frank Jaksch, CEO and co-founder of ChromaDex.

2016: The year of the hammer and the squeeze

23-Dec-2016 By Loren Israelsen, president, United Natural Products Alliance

2016 felt like the year of hammer blows and the squeeze play, with the finale the unpredicted win of Donald Trump as President. I count myself among those who close this year pondering the state of affairs globally, nationally, and personally.

Attention given to preventing adulteration on the rise, but has that curbed the problem?

24-Jun-2016 By Hank Schultz

Is the dietary supplement industry getting a handle on the adulteration issue? The baseline data does not exist to be able to say one way or another. But sources agree that in the one thing you can measure—the attention the issue is getting—the situation...

Discounting to clear unexpected multivitamin inventory bulge hurts GNC's Q1 results

29-Apr-2016 By Hank Schultz

Supplement retailing giant GNC has suffered through a disappointing quarter that CEO Michael Archbold chalked up mostly to inventory problems.

Turning quality narrative around complicated by years of sourcing based on lowest price, expert says

04-Mar-2016 By Hank Schultz

After years of hand wringing over the situation in raw material supply in which low quality ingredients find a home in the marketplace, consensus now seems to be building in the dietary supplement industry to do something about it. But at a recent industry...