NBTY
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| Private | |
| Industry | Retail |
| Founded | 1971 |
| Headquarters | Ronkonkoma, New York, U.S. |
| Products | Nutritional supplements |
| Revenue |
 $3 billion (2013) |
| Owner | The Carlyle Group |
| Website |
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NBTY, Inc., formerly known as Nature's Bounty, Inc., is an American manufacturer of vitamins and nutritional supplements which are distributed under many third party brands in the United States and internationally.[1] Its name was changed from Nature's Bounty, Inc. to NBTY, Inc. in 1995.[2] NBTY also markets products to chain stores such as CVS and Target.
Origins
Nature's Bounty was founded in 1971 by Arthur Rudolph primarily as a mail order, catalog based company. Nature's Bounty is headquartered in Ronkonkoma, New York.
Brands
NBTY distributes its products to supermarkets, drug store chains, mass merchandisers, club stores, and health food stores under various brand names, as well as selling direct-to-consumer. Brands that NBTY owns:
- American Health
- Balance Bar
- Body Fortress
- DeTuinen
- Ester-C
- Good 'n Natural
- Holland & Barrett
- Home Health
- MET-Rx
- Natural Wealth
- Nature's Bounty
- Organic Doctor
- Osteo Bi-Flex
- Physiologics
- Pure Protein
- Puritan's Pride
- Rexall
- SiSU
- Solgar
- Sundown Naturals
- Vitamin World (sold off in February 2016)
See also
References
- ↑ "NBTY Inc. Corporate Overview". Corporate-ir.net. Retrieved 2012-07-31.
- ↑ "Symbol Lookup from Yahoo! Finance". Finance.yahoo.com. Retrieved 2012-07-31.
External links
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