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Collette Kakuk, Vice President of Global Marketing
Layn USA 20250 Acacia St., #200 Newport Beach, CA 92660 Phone: (949) 387-6840 Email: [email protected] Website: www.layncorp.com Layn Natural Ingredients is one of the world’s largest innovators of natural botanical extract ingredients and solutions serving the biggest brands in food, beverage, flavor, nutraceutical, personal care, animals and pets for more than 25 years. Truly vertically ...
Navigating the Supply Chain in a Perfect Storm
As we survey the current supply chain landscape approaching mid-year 2021, the nutrition industry has been able to largely overcome many of the initial raw materials challenges brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. The ability to improvise strategies and diversify raw materials sourcing through an abundance of different global suppliers, distributors and manufacturers who have ...
Why Digitally Native Supplement Brands Are Disrupting the Market
The pandemic has been a change catalyst for the supplement industry. Beginning in early spring 2020, supplement brands shifted their short-term focus from sales and marketing to maintaining inventory and protecting their supply chains. Both legacy and emerging supplement brands experienced unprecedented growth. The 2019 conversation about CBD ended abruptly and switched to immunity. An ...
Granulation for the Nutritional Market
The term “granulated” is derived from the Latin word “granulatum” meaning grained, a process that evolved from delivering powder by hand rolling into a pill by using honey or sugar and had been used for centuries to combine ingredients that could not be blended together. Today, granulation is the process of joining fine powders into ...
Dietary Supplements Attract Private Equity; A Good Trade Association Should, Too
Private equity (PE) never enters an industry without performing its due diligence. These decisions result from both analysis of past performance and promise of continued growth. Dietary supplements are particularly attractive these days to outside investment compared to other consumer products because consumers are increasingly turning to proactively protecting their health. Even before the pandemic, ...
Shil Kothari, Chief Executive Officer, IminoTech, Inc.
IminoTech, Inc. 123 W. NYE Ln., Ste. 424 Carson City, NV 89706 Phone: (775) 888-6730 Website: www.iminotech.com IminoTech was founded in 2018 to develop and commercialize a new class of biologically active carbohydrates called iminosugars. Promising mechanistic and clinical research shows that iminosugars can modulate a wide range of activities in the body, including regulation ...
Navigating “The New” Networking, Classically
Networking is pivotal to many businesses. Since I do not do any advertising, networking and word-of-mouth is essential to my success. When conferences started canceling because of COVID-19, I did not freak out. I had been in this situation before, and not because of a pandemic. When I first started my company, Pitch Publicity, I ...
It’s Not Just the Federal Government: State Issues of Concern for the Supplement Industry
As we move past the early days of the Biden Administration and the 117th Congress, all signs suggest that we will move into the standard “gridlock” mode that we are all too familiar with from our experiences over the past decade. While the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) seems to finally be showing signs ...
Vision Health
Increasing concern about vision health leads to innovation in the natural ingredient marketplace. The COVID-19 pandemic has forced school-attending children and employed adults across the globe to perform their duties at home, particularly in front of their computer screens. From virtual classroom learning to Zoom meetings with coworkers and clients, there has been significantly less ...
Follow Your Gut
Delayed release & digestive health product growth The expression “follow your gut” is derived from a feeling a person experiences in the stomach area. Similar to the brain in terms of nerves, scientists refer to it as the “little brain” or the enteric nervous system (ENS), but little it is not. Comprised of two thin ...
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