NBTY, Inc.

NBTY, Inc. is the largest nutritional supplements manufacturer in the United States by sales ($2.6 + billion), and it sells a portfolio of over 22,000 products through mass merchandisers, drug stores, and company-owned retail outlets in North America and Europe. NBTY has also expanded wholesale operations across Europe, Latin America and Asia as well.  Brand names such as Nature’s Bounty, Solgar, Sundown, Osteo-Bi-Flex, Ester-C, and Rexall represent 20% of the company’s sales and are sold at mass merchandisers, drug store chains, drug wholesalers, supermarket chains and wholesalers throughout the U.S. Unlike many of its competitors, NBTY owns its own retail outlets. However, much of what its factories produce does not go to NBTY’s stores; instead, it is sold wholesale to third party distributors. Supermarkets, pharmacies, and other retailers sell products under about a dozen of NBTY’s brand names.