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3 weeks ago | 
newhope.com | Melaina Juntti
This article first appeared in the Nutrition Business Journal Changing Need States Issue. Amid the COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermath, nearly every condition area tracked by NBJ saw sales spikes or drops. Many experienced both. Not joint health. This sleepy sector, which accounts for about 3.3% of the U.S. dietary supplement market, kept slugging along—not really up, not alarmingly down, just flat.
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3 weeks ago | 
newhope.com | Melaina Juntti
Digital commerce continues to unlock new revenue streams for brick-and-mortar retailers. Increasingly, beyond just selling products through their websites and apps, retailers are selling off advertising space across these digital platforms and even inside their physical stores. CPG brands are then buying this prime real estate on retailers’ homepages, digital endcaps, in-store audio and more, leveraging stores’ prized first-party data to reach potential customers close to the point of sale.
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1 month ago | 
newhope.com | Melaina Juntti
Like most cooperatives that emerged in the late 1960s and ’70s, BriarPatch Food Co-op was founded by visionaries who believed in a better, fairer, healthier way to live, work and conduct business. Launched as a humble retail outpost in Grass Valley, California, in 1976, the co-op thrived through the decades, relocating several times before expanding into a full-service store in 2007.
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1 month ago | 
newhope.com | Melaina Juntti
Creatine is all the rage right now, and there’s a whole lot of science back that hype. Once mostly seen as a musclehead supplement thanks to its strength and performance perks, creatine has broken out of its “bro” box and found favor among people of all genders, ages and life stages. And the more research that’s conducted on this compound, the more potential benefits creatine seems to have, particularly for women.
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1 month ago | 
newhope.com | Melaina Juntti
In many ways, older shoppers are the ideal customers for most food retailers. Consumers in their later 50s and older spend more money on food, supplements and home care products than younger demographics—and they tend to spend more time in stores too. Even so, aging shoppers are often overlooked.
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1 month ago | 
newhope.com | Melaina Juntti
This article first appeared in the Nutrition Business Journal Active Lifestyle Issue. Despite the drumbeat that Americans are fat, lazy and out of shape, a record-smashing 72.9 million people—23.7% of the U.S. population aged 6 and up—belong to a health club, gym, studio or other fitness facility, according to the latest Health and Fitness Association (HFA) data. Fitness memberships increased 5.8% in 2023, per HFA, the highest annual growth rate since 2017.
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2 months ago | 
newhope.com | Melaina Juntti
With baby boomers now in their 60s and 70s, Gen Xers not far behind them and older millennials now passing 40, it’s no wonder healthy aging is a red-hot trend. Natural products retailers are fielding lots of shopper questions about a spectrum of aging-related concerns, from creaky joints to saggy skin to seemingly waning brainpower. And as millennials, now the largest generational cohort, get up there in years, retailers will undoubtedly field even more.
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2 months ago | 
newhope.com | Melaina Juntti
At a GlanceOperating the store throughout the COVID-19 pandemic convinced the women they should be its next owners. Even before their purchase of Mastel's, Lauren Gaffney expanded the product selection, taking a chance on a $20 yogurt. Alina Hornfeldt modernized the marketing, added Instagram and started making reels about specific aspects of the store. Mastel’s Health Foods in St. Paul, Minnesota, is one of the oldest traditional health food stores still rocking today.
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2 months ago | 
newhope.com | Melaina Juntti
Piping Rock Health Products, Inc. is overly excited to announce its premier supplement brand, Natural Vitality®, has won Product of the Year for its CALM Magnesium Citrate Raspberry-Lemon Powder in the VMS category!BOHEMIA, NY – April 23, 2025 – While everyone is staying CALM, Piping Rock Health Products, Inc.
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2 months ago | 
newhope.com | Melaina Juntti
Naturally Network now consists of 11 regional chapters with recent additions and a merger of two chapters. Find out more. At a GlanceNatural CPG brands that win regional pitch slams will compete at Newtopia Now, Aug. 20-22, in Denver, Colorado. Naturally Bay Area and Naturally North Bay merged last year to form Naturally NorCal, which has more than 800 members. Chapters are intended to be regional resources, but Naturally Seattle welcomes brands based in the Pacific Northwest.
