This
issue provides 24 pages of detailed data and strategic analysis of
the new emerging niche products exploding onto the nutrition
industry.
When a
market matures and consolidates, people start looking for niches.
This dynamic is playing out in the nutrition industry. A
plunge in herbal supplement sales is challenging the industry to
reassess its market potency. At the same time, companies are
realizing new growth opportunities in women's supplements and low-carb
diets.
Overview: The herbal supplement market
serves as a microcosm of what a combination of negative trends can
do to a niche in the nutrition industry. This special section
looks at the numbers, reasons for the decline and what can be done
about it in discussions with experts, associations and companies
across the value chain.......
1-10
Europe’s top herbal consultants discuss
their take on the tough U.S. market, with comparisons to
Europe and ideas for revival.............
12-13
Glucosamine sales continue strong growth in
a healthy joint care market that also includes Chondroitin, MSM
and SAMe.................. 13
Women’s supplements prove a strong niche
as soy, red clover, black cohosh, valerian and condition-specific
proprietary blends all post high growth in a difficult supplement
market... 14-15
Sales of SAMe sustain growth in 2000, and
new science and clinical studies looks
likely to keep the niche growing...16-17
Lutein is one of the newer contributors to
the still-healthy antioxidant niche......
18-19
Low-carb diets make an appetizing product
niche for pioneer brands Atkins and Keto,
but lively debate continues on which diet is best for which
condition...19-21
NBJ Stock Reporter: The first quarter of 2001 ends with a
thud...22-2
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Companies
Featured Include:
Abbott
Laboratories, AMCON DistributorsAmerican, Botanical Council,
American Heart Assn, American Herbal Products Assn, American Home
Products, Amway, APTEI, Atkins Nutrition, BASF, Bausch
& Lomb, Baylor University Medical Center, Botanicals
International, Bronx (NY) Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Cedars-Sinai
Integrative Medicine Medical Group, Changes International, Corley-Jensen, Costco, Council
for Responsible Nutrition, Cyanotech Corp, Enzymatic
Therapy, Food for Health, Galaxy Nutritional Foods, GNC,
GlaxoSmithKline, Global Health Sciences, Hauser Inc., Healthcentral.com, Healthshop.com, Indena
USA Inc., Information Resources Inc, Institute for
Neutraceutical Advncmnt, Johnson & Johnson’s, Kemin
Foods, Knoll Pharmaceutical, Leiner Health Products,
Life Services Supplements Inc, Mothernature.com, National
Institutes of Health, Natrol, Naturade, Natural
Products Expo, Nature’s Sunshine, NBTY, Novagen, NutriLife, Pharmavite, PhytoPharm
Consulting, PR Nutrition, Pure World, Quality
Botanical Ingredients, Rexall Sundown, Royal Numico, Royal
Wessanen, Sam’s Club, Schaper & Brummer, Scientific
Cooperative for Phytomedicines, Spins, SusanLoveMD.com, The
Hartman Group, Tree of Life, Twinlab, U.S.
Pharmacopia, University of Rome
