Bill Giebler

Jan 21, 2025 | newhope.com | Bill Giebler

Welcome to Q2… of the 21st century. Can you believe it? We’ve been in the 2000s long enough that some readers of this newsletter have known only the 21st century. And what “interesting times” we’ve had in Q1. We’ve seen extraordinary presidential elections from Barack Obama to Donald Trump. Wars in Ukraine and Gaza continue largely unchecked.

Sep 5, 2024 | newhope.com | Bill Giebler

Over decades of tracking the supplement market by ingredient category, sales channel and condition, New Hope Network's Nutrition Business Journal has seen and shown a variety of storylines. With the 2024 Condition Specific Report, a report that came about with a deeper-than-usual dive into the data to update not just the forecasts but the historical estimates, we see movement in the motivating factors behind consumer actions in the aisles and virtual carts.

Jul 9, 2024 | newhope.com | Bill Giebler

This article originally appeared in the Nutrition Business Journal's Awards Issue. Over the years, the names of the individual NBJ awards have shifted. A dozen years ago we had a “Stock Performance” award. For a single year, 2014, we ran a “Triple Bottom Line” award, and a few years saw an “Investment in the Future” award. “Management Achievement” has been a long-lasting award, as has “Efforts on Behalf of the Industry.”But this isn’t a "What’s in a name?" moment.

May 22, 2024 | newhope.com | Bill Giebler

Vitafoods Europe made its appearance May 14-16 in Geneva, Switzerland, the show’s 26th appearance there. Next year, iits in Barcelona, Spain. This was, I believe, NBJ’s second data presentation at the event, but not likely the last, as the presentation, “Inconsistent Growth: The Global Dietary Supplement Market by the Numbers,” was among the top attended sessions of the show. In it I shared numbers from both NBJ’s recent Global Supplement Business Report and the new Supplement Business Report.

Apr 11, 2024 | newhope.com | Bill Giebler

Bill Giebler, Content & Insights DirectorLooking at NBJ’s Sports Nutrition and Weight Management category numbers, like those just published in the Sports Nutrition and Weight Management Report, it often takes a moment of orientation. How could a $63.63 billion dietary supplement industry (preliminary numbers published recently in New Hope Network’s State of Natural Report) house a $69.86 billion SNWM industry? It takes little more than category definitions to clarify this.