Today was my first full day at Natural Products Expo.  The new Convention Center in Boston is enormous and beautiful.  Expo East is considerably smaller than Expo West, but still huge.   And a big Boulder presence.  I count 22 Boulder County companies and I’m not sure I’ve seen them all.   They range from food & beverage, ingredients, health & beauty care, household products, and a variety of publishing titles.  And, of course, the whole event is organized by New Hope Media in Boulder.  I haven’t seen attendance figures, but I’ll venture 35,000 +/- 5,000.  Also attended a State of the Industry presentation (one of the speakers was Sterling-Rice Group partner, John Grubb).   Lots of discussion about whether the current financial climate is negatively impacting revenues.   Data through September looks very positive.  Supplements and vitamins  are growing double digits - a surprise frankly.   Anecdotally, a number of companies I spoke with said they were doing surprisingly well, but are still worried everything might change suddenly. 

I’m beginning to see some trends emerge in what I’m seeing.  I’ll outline those in a later post.

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