NOW Vitamins
The NOW® mission is - To provide value in products and services that empower people to lead healthier lives. In 1948, with the natural food and supplement industry in its infancy, entrepreneur Paul Richard paid $900 for the purchase of Fearn Soya Foods—a Chicago based manufacturer of grain and legume-based products. This began a six-decade legacy of providing health-seeking consumers with high-quality, affordable nutrition products. NOW is still family owned as it has been from the beginning. El Richard started the company in 1968 and the entire family has contributed to the success of NOW.
Celebrating 40 Years of Empowering Healthier Lives
In 1968, NOW Foods was founded under the belief that good health was not a luxury available only to the wealthy. For the past forty years, we have made it our life's work to offer health food and nutritional supplements of the highest quality, at prices that are fair and affordable to all those who seek them.
Today, NOW Foods is one of the top-selling brands in health foods stores, an award-winning manufacturer, a respected advocate of the natural product industry, and a leader in the fields of nutritional science and methods development. And while we have grown considerably over the past four decades, one thing has never changed – our commitment to providing products and services that empower people to lead healthier lives.
When people work together to achieve a common goal, many rewarding experiences can come from it. We at NOW have been on a mission "to provide value in products and services that empower people to lead healthier lives." At times organizations outside of NOW recognize our efforts and give us awards for our achievements. We have listed some of the awards below to illustrate the teamwork and determination that is happening on a daily basis at NOW.
2008 Awards & Achievements
NOW Foods was chosen as one of Chicago's Best and Brightest Companies to Work For. This annual competition is sponsored by the National Association for Business Resources (NABR). The 101 Best and Brightest Companies to Work For awards honor Chicago area companies that recognize employees as their greatest asset. The NABR explains that the winning companies are companies that "work with imagination and conviction to create organizational value and business results through their policies and Best Practices in human resource management. The selection, recognition and awarding of the 101 Best and Brightest Companies to Work For allows businesses to showcase these policies and Best Practices and demonstrate why each of them in an ideal place for employees to work." Read more.
NOW Honored at White House Ceremony
On Tuesday May 20th, President George Bush and Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez presented NOW International with the Presidential “E” Award for Excellence in Exporting. Created by President John F. Kennedy in 1961, the Presidential “E” award is the highest honor that the federal government can give to any American company or organization that has made significant contributions to the increase of American exports. Read more.
Vity Awards - 2008
Vitamin Retailer Magazine
EIGHTEEN VITY AWARDS! 2008 brought NOW the most Vity Awards we have ever received. The winners in each category are based on responses from a random poll of readers who were asked to identify their top-selling dietary supplement products by category. NOW Foods is honored to receive so many Vity awards for 2008. It requires a lot of support to receive this many awards and we are thankful to everyone who has made NOW a part of his or her life. read more on Vity Awards
Best Full Line of Supplements
Whole Foods Magazine
Whole Foods Magazine, 2008 Natural Choice Awards NOW was recently named honored as the “Best Full Line of Supplements” in Whole Foods Magazine's annual Natural Choice Awards – published April 2008. Determined exclusively by retailers, the Natural Choice Awards are conducted annually to honor the best selling products in 12 categories, as well as the retailer's choice for best full line of supplements. While NOW has previously been honored for single supplements, this is the first time NOW has been honored for it's complete line. Every award is special and being recognized as the retailer's brand of choice means a lot to us, as it comes directly from retailers.
NOW Foods named “Corporate Hero”
NOW was recently rated as a “Corporate Hero” in the latest printing of a book Entitled. The Better World Shopping Guide , by Ellis Jones (www.betterworldshopper.org). This book evaluated various businesses in 73 categories; ranking them on an A to F grade scale based primarily on social and environmental responsibility criteria. The author used over 16 independent resources that evaluate a company's business practices. A company in each category that displays “the things that put a company head and shoulders above the rest” is named the Corporate Hero. Conversely, a company that displays “the things that land a company squarely at the bottom of the rankings” is exposed as a “Corporate Villain.” In the Vitamin category, NOW was named as the Corporate Hero. This offers further proof that our efforts to support the environment and help those in need are being recognized.
Neil Levin Receives NPA Champion Award
Recently, one of our own, Neil Levin , was selected to receive the Natural Product Association's prestigious Champion Award. As NOW's Nutrition Education Manager and Truth Advocate, Neil is a Certified Clinical Nutritionist, a nutrition educator, and product formulator. In addition, Neil has become nationally-recognized for his honest defense of the industry. By closely monitoring how nutrition is portrayed in the media, Neil uses his scientific and nutritional knowledge to respond to false, negative, and misleading press. He has published hundreds of responses, many of which are posted on his website, honestnutrition.com. This is a tremendous honor, and we are proud of his contributions to both NOW and the natural products industry. The NPA will present Neil with the 2008 Champion Award at this year's Natural Marketplace in Las Vegas .
For more information on NOW Vitamins, visit www.nowfoods.com
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