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For over 30 years, Vitaquest has been creating and producing unique products for the health and wellness category. Our advantage is our ability to help clients successfully launch into the nutrition business. Build a faster and stronger business with our nutritional products of higher perceived value.
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Partner With The Leader in Dietary Supplements.
Overview • For over 30 years Vitaquest has been creating & producing unique products for the health and wellness category • The best choice to develop functional wellness products and provide the manufacturing • Our advantage to you is our ability to help our our clients successfully launch into the nutrition business.
Nutritional Products with Higher Perceived Value • Are Call to action • - Instant Gratification • - Make the Phones Ring • - Provide Immediate Benefit • Build the business faster and keep it strong
Proprietary Formulas Create Value • drive interest • sell a great story • provide benefits
What Products Are Hot • leading ingredients in the market • Green Coffee Extract • Raspberry Ketones • Super Citrimax • Glucomannan • Leading caetgories • Diet • Anti Aging • Energy
Vitaquest Corporate Profile30 years of excellence in dietary supplements • Garden State Nutritionals America’s largest custom manufacturer of dietary supplements serving over 40 countries around the world • Celmark Hydroceuticals custom manufacturer of liquid and cosmeceutical Products • Windmill Health Products Formerly a part of the Vitaquest family, now a partner in the distribution of production in all retail areas
The Vitaquest Vision Empowering our clients with unique and effective formulations, manufacturing, packaging and quality Real value-added support
Extensive Client Base in all Markets • mass Market Retailers • drug retailers • health food retail #1 supplier • electronic retail #1 supplier • direct sales • network marketing • export markets • professional trade • direct to consumer
State of the Art Facilities • Over 335,000 sq. foot of manufacturing, laboratory & office space • New addition added in summer ’09 • Substantial and flexible operational capacity • Cutting edge manufacturing technology • Packaging & assembly • Advanced inventory control & material management system • Designed to manage a “Just in Time System” for efficient production and material management • Efficient work flow systems • Customer service, material planning, traffic, • quality sourcing & purchasing, inventory control
Manufacturing capabilities High custom volume production • Tablet Production • existing capacity to 20 billion doses annually • custom tableting technologies, patented time release, color custom coatings, custom shapes • Two Piece Encapsulation • Greater than 10 billion doses per year • Dry room capabilities • #1 dietary supplement producer of stick packs in US nutrition • Custom packaging in tubes • Effervescents formulations tablets and powders
Manufacturing capabilities • Powders • Meal replacements • Greens & Berries • Energy Cocktails • Sports Nutrition • Recovery • Performance • Specialty • Medical foods • Multi’s as an alternative to tablets/capsules • Great for kids and seniors • Antioxidant and Anti-Aging Therapies • Stick Pack dosing • pioneers in the field • limitless capacity
$500,000 in New Equipment Added in 2012 • Variable Blending Capacities to Match Needs large and small • From 100kg to 4,000kg blend • 14 Blenders on line • Both Cone and Ribbon Blenders- varying shear and blend requirements • V- Blender (2,500kg) being installed 3rd Quarter
$500,000 in New Equipment Added in 2012 • Unique Packaging Equipment customized to meet any product requirement • Largest vial and stick pack operation in the U.S. • 3 New Powder Filling lines in Operation • 2 New High Speed Encapsulators installed and Running
Multiple Packaging Options • Bottles • HDPE, PETE, glass • wide range of sizes, colors • Regular and shrink labeling • Canisters • Jars, Jugs and Tubs • Unit dose pouches • Stick packs • Blister cards • PVC/foil and aluminum/aluminum • Modified atmosphere packaging for air & moisture sensitive products • Kit and display assembly
Liquids (Orlando, Fl) • State-of-the-art liquid facility can produce over 30,000 thousand gallons of product per day • Pasteurization (flexible methods – Flash , Vat) • Emulsions • Fill sizes from 1 gallon down to 1 ounce on fully automated equipment. • >1000 x 32 oz. per hour • >500 x 1 oz. shots per minute
Liquids • Jacketed vessels for temperature control • Great for blending herbals (hot) and then adding other nutrients (cool) • Examples: • Aloe drinks - Liquid vitamins • Fish oil emulsions - Protein supplements • Phytonutrient concentrates - Glucosamine formulations • Calcium formulations - Exotic fruits • Energy - More…
Quality Comes First • US FDA GMP compliant • full service analytical and microbiological labs on site • 17 degreed chemists, 2 microbiologists, 2 PhDs • methods development and validation • extensive wet chemistry testing • stability testing in humidified and non-humidified chambers • state of the artlaboratory equipment • FT-IR and n-IR for positive identification • ICP emission spectrometer • 9 fully automated HP/UPLCs • fully integrated • Multiple detectors to analyze a wide range of compounds
Approved and Certified • International Regulatory and Assistance. We sell to 40 countries • Vitaquest regulatory capabilities: • Registration and compliance • custom formulations and adaptations to local regulations • full service testing including microbiological • Country by Country ingredient review and monograph • Vitaquest ships all across Asia and South Pacific From Port Newark NJ • Quality Affiliations • NNFA “A” rated • NSF “A” rated • Health Canada • DSA member • NACDS • NWDA • Shuster Approved Manufacturer • Herb Research Foundation • Rabbi Samuel Z. Krauss (Kosher Certification) • Awarded NNFA Good Manufacturing Practices Certification (1 of a handful of TGA Certification (Australia’s manufacturers in the U.S to receive GMP certification.) • equivalent to the FDA)
Research and Development • > 2000 new products developed annually • Ability to recognize and leverage the best emerging nutritional science • Adept at formulation in all solid and liquid dosage forms and Flavor Technologies • Proprietary patented technologies give marketplace differentiation • Significant due diligence to new product development with attention to environmental, legal and regulatory parameters
Regulatory Affairs • highly experienced regulatory department staff handles all aspects of • labeling and nomenclature • documentation • international registration assistance • Compliance • Our staff provides personalized service for your documentation needs
Operational Strengths • strong leadership and management team • large scale GMP compliant manufacturing and laboratory facilities • substantial and flexible operational capacity • efficient workflow systems • strong information systems
We Want To Share Our Diverse Business Experience • We produce more than 4,000 custom formulas • For over 500 brands • In over 40 countries • In all market segments • retail • network marketing • electronic retail • direct response (radio, print, e-commerce, short and long form television, newsletter, telemarketing) • direct mail • Internet • Major pharma • Professional market
What Vitaquest can do for You? • Vitaquest can help you design products that have more market value, lasting lifecycle • Vitaquest designed products have helped our customers become the leaders in their market • Vitaquest will assist in keeping you focused on the products which lead, not follow
Leverage our Strengths • Our best partnerships: • Leverage our product knowledge • Leverage our manufacturing knowledge • Leverage our market knowledge • Evaluating the positioning of each product in your line and the impact on your associates • More knowledgeable associates • Products that can sell themselves • Greater sales • We want to be your partner to invigorate your associates and your product offering
Making Shakes MAGIC - more than just a meal replacement - increase satiety with special fiber - using key ingredients to bolster its features - better flavors and better recipies
5 Day Jump Start - Detoxification - immediate results - an additional 1-2 lbs from existing program - gentle cleanse in a two part system (picture of the Greens AM PM cleanse)
Accelerator - daily supplement with metabolic boosting ingredients - metabolism boosting food extracts (see Dr. OZ) - includes Green Coffee, Green Tea, Caffeine and Ketones - to be used with the foods you eat
Daily ADVANTAGE - if you aren’t selling them a vitamin they are buying it elsewhere - nutrition is only good as the foods you eat - you know exactly what is going into the customers mouth - qualified nutritionists designed the supplement to integrate with Nutritsystem foods - tie in instructions and dosing with foods
Upsell Capabilities - FREE 2 week supply if you call now - include small bottle and pamphlet on supplements benefits - re order offer when combined with food - continuity will keep clients motivated
Keys to Successful Launch • - Supplements that integrate with Food Nutrition • - Simple Up sell Card communicating element of doubt • "Does your supplement know what else you are eating? WE DO" • We Design Supplements around the food you eat • - How to best take your supplements with your food • - All dosage refers to brand: best when taken with a Nutrisystem meal.
Summary • There are numerous opportunities for you and Vitaquest to work together. • Select the ones that are right for you • Vitaquest can assist in the development, quoting and provide samples of those products to meet YOUR specific needs.