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NBJ's 10th Annual Industry Overview provides you with 48-pages of strategic data and analysis of the $68.6-billion U.S. nutrition industry. This essential issue provides an exclusive round-up of the year 2004 along with:
Detailed market data charts, growth
forecasts and NBJ's Top U.S. Supplement Companies
Strategic review of business trends in | Dietary
Supplements | Natural & Organic Foods | Functional Foods | Natural Personal Care
Special Bonus: Retail Outlook
featuring natural, mass merchandiser, grocery, pharmacy and specialty retail sales outlets
Data includes NBJ's signature matrix of
sales by category & channel in 2004, category & channel sales data for 2002-2004
& 2005-2008 forecast, and detailed breakdowns in each retail channel
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Annual Industry Overview: NBJ provides a product category review of the $68.6-billion U.S.
nutrition industry and presents NBJ’s annual ranking of top supplement companies ....... 1-11
Washington Watch: Congressional education a top priority for CRN; ephedra casts a long
shadow over the herbal category; and OTA lobbies hard for more organic funding ......... 12-13
Supplement sector may have slowed, but perspective from NOW Foods, Rainbow Light
and Planetary Formulas in the natural channel report growth in 2004 and 2005 ........... 14-16
Q&A with Alex Moffett, president of Renaissance Herbs on supply and branding .......... 16-17
Wyeth says chewable tablets contribute to gains in calcium and multis ............................... 18
With glucosamine under pressure, new ingredients differentiate joint products ............. 19-20
Organic entrepreneurs Essential Living, Zhena’s and Peanut Better face distribution
challenges in a maturing market ....................................................................................... 21-22
Like a broker with a brand, Natural Value keeps overhead to a minimum ............................ 23
Legal ruling creates a buzz in the fast-moving hemp food market .................................. 24-25
Newly acquired U.S. Mills provides Sunset Brands with a growth platform ........................ 25
Retail Outlook: Annual overview of retail and distribution trends, with NBJ data on sales
in the natural retail, supernatural and mass market channels .......................................... 26-30
Healthier eating extends across food services industry .................................................. 30-31
Organics to Go, a retail and direct delivery chain, plans West Coast expansion ................. 32
LoyalTec advises natural retailers on how to cultivate a loyal following .......................... 32-33
Supernatural powers: Whole Foods and Wild Oats stay ahead of the market ............... 34-35
Mass merchandizers deepen their involvment in the nutrition industry .......................... 36-37
UNFI, Tree of Life and Millbrook Distribution outline growth strategies ....................... 37-39
COMPANIES INCLUDED:
ACNielsen, American Botanical Council, Banner Pharmacaps Inc, Bumble Bee Seafoods, Burnham Labs, Campbell Soup Co., Citigroup Smith Barney, Costco, Council for Responsible Nutrition, DNP International, Dr. Bronner’ s Magic Soap, Dynamic Nutritional Products, Earth Fare, Enzymatic Therapy, Essential Living Foods, Food Business Consulting, Food Marketing Institute, General Mills, Giant Food, Good Times Burgers, Greenlife, GSK Consumer Healthcare Care, Hemp Industries Assn., Humanetics Corp, Ideasphere, Imaginetix, IMS Health, Information Resources Inc, Institute of Food Technologists, Johns Hopkins University, Kraft Foods, Leiner, Living Harvest Conscious Nutrition, Low Carb Creations, LoyalTec LLC, Marsh, Millbrook Distribution Services, National Enzyme Company, National Institutes of Health, Natural Factors, Natural Foods Merchandiser, Natural Products Consulting Institute, Natural Products Consulting Int'l, Natural Value, NBTY, Nebraska Cultures, Nordic Naturals, NOW Foods, Nutiva, Ocean Nutrition, Organic To Go, Organic Trade Assn, Panera Bread Company, PatentHealth, Peanut Better, Peapod, PepsiCo, Pharmavite, Planetary Formulas, Proprietary Nutritionals, Rainbow Light, Real Food Services Inc., Renaissance Herbs, Resource Marketing International Inc, Retail Insights, Rippe Lifestyle Institute, Safeway, Shaper & Brummer, SLS Sales Inc, Source Food Technology Inc, Spine-health.com, SPINS, St. Joseph’s University, Stop & Shop, Sunset Holdings Inc, The Natural Marketing Institute, TNO Nutrition and Food Research, Trader Joe, Tree of Life, U.S. Mills Inc., Unilever, United Natural Foods , Weider Nutrition International, Whole Foods Market, Wild Harvest, Wild Oats, Zhena’s Gypsy Teas, Zila Nutraceuticals
COMPLETE LIST OF FIGURES:
- 2004 U.S. Nutrition Industry Revenues ($mil in Consumer Sales of supplements, natural & organic foods, functional foods, natural personal care)
- NBJ's Top U.S. Supplement Companies in 2004
- U.S. Nutrition Industry Growth 2002-2004
- U.S. Glucosamine/Chondroitin Sales 1994-2004
- U.S. Retail Nutrition Sales, 2004
- Growth in Natural & Specialty Stores by Type, 2004
- Whole Foods Market Annual Sales, 1998-2004
- Wild Oats Market Annual Sales, 1998-2004
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