The Vitamin Shoppe

The Vitamin Shoppe (formally Vitamin Shoppe Industries, Inc., stylized as theVitaminShoppe) is an American, New Jersey-based retailer of nutritional supplements. It also operate stores in Canada under the name VitaPath. The company provides approximately 8,000 different SKUs of supplements through its retail stores and over 20,000 different SKUs of supplements through its retail websites.

In 2002, Vitamin Shoppe Industries was sold to an affiliate of Bear Stearns Merchant Banking, a private equity unit of Bear Stearns, for approximately $310 million. The company made $751.5 million in net sales in fiscal 2010 and has a market capitalization of over $1 billion.

The Vitamin Shoppe held an initial public offering on October 26, 2009.

History

Jeffrey Horowitz founded The Vitamin Shoppe in 1977.

Products

The Vitamin Shoppe's retail stores and online sites carry a line of nutritional supplements with supplementary lines, such as Vitamin Shoppe's M.D. Select (a line put together by Dr. Ronald Hoffman) and the Bodytech brand of sports supplements. In addition to their own brands, the company carries third-party lines, including professional and specialized lines.