When a Supplement Outperforms a Drug
When a dietary supplement ingredient outperforms a new pharmaceutical drug, the world does take notice, but the eventual outcomes are predictably different. This is what happened when two separate studies…
A Transparency Discussion – Clean Label in Supplements
If dietary supplements are truly best represented as part of the natural products industry, then the natural versus synthetic ingredients issue smoothly goes away. For how then can synthetic ingredients…
Creating value through supply chain partner management
As a pragmatic, logical person, I frequently find myself, not without some difficulty, attempting to calculate a hard return or quantitative portion to the more qualitative aspects associated with value-laden…
An Amazon Health Store; No Clerks or Cashiers?
Last week I tackled Amazon and dietary supplement brands. In this week’s post, I address Amazon’s overall retail impact. Amazon is creating an offline retail terrain that provides threat and…
A Note to Amazon and Sellers – Collision of Expectation Imminent on New Retail Superhighway
A Transparency Collision will likely occur when consumers’ or customers’ expectations differ from reality. The outcome of this type of collision will create both fallout and opportunity. And, this collision…
What the Natural Products Industry is Doing Right
Somehow 2017 is nearly over, and while our industry has had a lot of ups and downs, the ups outshine the downs and we have a bright future. So often,…
TTC’s What’s Hot, What’s Not List
As 2017 winds down and we head into 2018, we took a step back to reflect on what’s going to be “hot” in 2018 and what to drop. The HOT:…
The Transparency Collision – The China Elephant in the Room
When expectations follow a trajectory different from reality it can be presumed a collision of trust and confidence will follow. Expectations of transparency by dietary supplement consumers and brand holders…
Silent Complicity
[fusion_table] 3 Mile Island – Nuclear Plant Tragedy Barclays Bank fraud Enron – Business ethics failure Flint, MI City Council – Water pollution Fraternity Hazing – Deaths Associated General Motors…
PLMA – A Different Kind of Products Expo
This past week I had the opportunity to attend, for the second time in a few years, the latest installment of the PLMA (Private Label Manufacturers Association) annual tradeshow and…