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Revisiting The Green Imperative
What does it mean to be green? Sustainability should not be about marketing hype or embracing the latest contemporary zeitgiest. Sustainability must be a business model first and a branding strategy second. And, by now, it should be abundantly clear to any lucid decision-maker that sustainability is here to stay. What began as an article ...
Nutrition for the Digital Age: Designing Dietary Supplements for Today’s Esports Athletes
The traditional definition of sports is changing. Athletes no longer belong exclusively on courts or in the gym—they are now also behind computer screens and consoles. The esports market is currently worth $150 billion globally, a figure that is expected to double by 2025. This dizzying growth was accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic when more ...
Tableting by Design
Tableting is a broad term used to describe methods of compressing a powder formulation into a solid dosage form using a tablet press or tableting machine. Tablet manufacturing can be challenging due to the physical nature of the ingredients and the number of active ingredients present in nutraceutical formulations. The correct tablet design process is ...
Probiotics: What’s Inside Is Alive
Consumer interest in probiotics is growing—and so is the body of scientific research supporting their use and revealing the expanding health benefits of these products. Understanding the unique nature of probiotics starts with knowing that these ingredients are actually alive. Probiotics can deliver millions, or sometimes, billions of living organisms and can help the body ...
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 ...
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