PARK CITY, Utah, April 6, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Nutraceutical
International Corporation (NASDAQ: NUTR) today announced that
it has acquired substantially all the assets associated with the
Zhou Nutrition brand from Branson
Books, LLC. The purchase price was approximately
$19.7 million in cash. Zhou Nutrition
sells its line of 24 proprietary dietary supplement products on its
own website (www.zhounutrition.com) and via other Internet
retailers.
According to Frank W. Gay II,
chairman and chief executive officer, "We are excited to acquire a
brand that is focused exclusively on the e-commerce and
direct-to-consumer space. The founders of Zhou Nutrition have
created a set of amazing products and built a very strong consumer
base through their expertise in e-commerce. We look forward to
working with them to continue to grow this exclusive e-commerce
brand by introducing more supplement, personal care and healthy
food products under the brand. This will complement our
existing core business, which is to support and grow our other
brands that are sold into other market segments, such as the health
food channel."
ABOUT NUTRACEUTICAL
We are an integrated manufacturer, marketer, distributor and
retailer of branded nutritional supplements and other natural
products sold primarily to and through domestic health and natural
food stores. Internationally, we market and distribute branded
nutritional supplements and other natural products to and through
health and natural product distributors and retailers. Our
core business strategy is to acquire, integrate and operate
businesses in the natural products industry that manufacture,
market and distribute branded nutritional supplements. We
believe that the consolidation and integration of these acquired
businesses provides ongoing financial synergies through increased
scale and market penetration, as well as strengthened customer
relationships.
We manufacture and sell nutritional supplements and other
natural products under numerous brands, including Solaray®,
KAL®, Dynamic Health®, Nature's Life®,
LifeTime®, Natural Balance®, NaturalCare®,
Health from the Sun®, Pioneer®, Nutra
BioGenesis®, Life-flo®, Organix South®,
Heritage Store® and Monarch
Nutraceuticals®.
We own neighborhood natural food markets, which operate under
the trade names The Real Food Company™, Thom's Natural
Foods™, Cornucopia Community Market™ and
Granola's®. We also own health food stores, which
operate under the trade name Fresh Vitamins®.
We manufacture and/or distribute one of the broadest branded
product lines in the industry, with approximately 7,500 SKUs,
including approximately 750 SKUs exclusively sold
internationally. We believe that, as a result of our emphasis
on innovation, quality, loyalty, education and customer service,
our brands are widely recognized in health and natural food stores
and among their customers.
This Press Release contains forward-looking statements within
the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995
with respect to our financial condition, results of operations and
business. These forward-looking statements can be identified
by the use of terms such as "believe," "expects," "plan," "intend,"
"may," "will," "should," "can," or "anticipates," or the negative
thereof, or variations thereon, or comparable terminology, or by
discussions of strategy. These statements involve known and unknown
risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause industry
trends or our actual results to be materially different from any
future results expressed or implied by these statements.
Important factors that may cause our results to differ from these
forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to: (i)
changes in or new government regulations or increased enforcement
of the same, including adverse determinations by regulators; (ii)
unavailability of desirable acquisitions, inability to complete
them or inability to integrate them; (iii) increased costs,
including from increased raw material or energy prices; (iv)
changes in general worldwide economic or political conditions; (v)
adverse publicity or negative consumer perception regarding
nutritional supplements; (vi) issues with obtaining raw materials
of adequate quality or quantity; (vii) litigation and claims,
including product liability, intellectual property and other
types; (viii) disruptions from or following acquisitions
including the loss of customers; (ix) increased competition; (x)
slow or negative growth in the nutritional supplement industry or
the healthy foods channel; (xi) the loss of key personnel or the
inability to manage our operations efficiently; (xii) problems with
information management systems, manufacturing efficiencies and
operations, including system interruptions and
security/cybersecurity breaches; (xiii) insurance coverage issues;
(xiv) the volatility of the stock market generally and of our stock
specifically; (xv) increases in the cost of borrowings or
unavailability of additional debt or equity capital, or both, or
fluctuations in foreign currencies; and (xvi) interruption of
business or negative impact on sales and earnings due to acts of
God, acts of war, terrorism, bio-terrorism, civil unrest and other
factors outside of our control. Copies of our SEC reports are
available upon request from our investor relations department or
may be obtained at the SEC's website
(www.sec.gov).
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