High transportation costs, a weakening dollar and a weak economy all conspired to challenge ingredient suppliers in 2007 and into 2008. Mother nature didn’t hold back either. Suppliers of herbs and botanicals were also impacted by droughts, flooding and other server weather across the world.
As with challenges, opportunities for nutritional raw material and ingredient supply companies were fairly universal, according to executives in the nutrition industry’s supply chain.
Regulatory stabilization, geographical diversification and the implementation of GMPs are all on executives minds in 2008 and covered in detail in NBJ’s latest market research report.
“The business of nutritional raw material & ingredient supply is a lesser-researched part of the nutrition industry value chain,” noted Nutrition Business Journal editorial director Patrick Rea. “We’ve made it our specialty to shine light on this part of the nutrition industry and try to make sense of the global supply landscape as it pertains to the U.S. market for nutrition products.”
NBJ’s Nutritional Raw Material and Ingredient Supply Report 2008 includes new data on the 2007 markets for ingredient and raw material in supplements, functional foods, personal care and other specialty applications.
In this report you will find:

• In-Depth analysis of the dietary supplement supply chain, focusing on Raw Material sales to Manufacturers & Manufacturer Wholesale Sales to the Consumer Level.
• Detailed sections for all supplement subcategories, including: vitamins, herbs & botanicals, minerals, sports nutrition, meal supplements and specialty supplements. Special sections for functional food and natural & organic personal care supply are also included.
• 1-Page business profiles of more than 150 ingredient supply and contract manufacturing companies serving the U.S. market; including raw material sales by product, company bio and recent news.
• Regulatory analysis including a look at ingredients being sourced from China and the issues that arose in 2007.
• Analysis and input from industry experts concerning
• A section devoted to supplier strategies including: Value-added ingredients, ingredient branding, transitioning into food supply, condition-specific formulas and vertical integration.
• **Newly released** Sales figures for the entire Nutrition Industry Value Chain for 2007
• Leading Raw Material & Ingredient Suppliers: 2000-2007
• Profiles of # of Raw Material & Ingredient Suppliers
• NBJ’s Value Chain: 2000-2007

Data sets in product sections include: U.S. consumer sales and growth, wholesale sales and growth, raw material & ingredient sales and growth from 1995-2007, top supplier companies, business segment profiles of major ingredient categories, raw material price trending diagrams, and more.
Features include specialty vitamins, emerging antioxidants, ginseng, aloe, Chinese herbs, sports nutrition, protein, soy ingredients, weight-loss ingredients, fish oils & omega-3s, CoQ10, glucosamine, and others.

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