{"id":124380,"date":"2026-09-02T12:46:44","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T12:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/124380\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T12:46:44","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T12:46:44","slug":"nestle-offloads-vitamins-business-in-1b-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/124380\/","title":{"rendered":"Nestle Offloads Vitamins Business in $1B Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"storyParagraph\">&#13;<br \/>\n                                        Nestle is slimming down its supplement shelf, and it&#8217;s cashing a $1 billion check to do it. The Swiss food giant said Tuesday it will sell seven mainstream vitamin and supplement brands\u2014Nature&#8217;s Bounty, Osteo Bi-Flex, Ester-C, Gard, Nuun, Puritan&#8217;s Pride, and SisuNature&#8217;s Bounty and Sisu\u2014to Boston private-equity firm Yellow Wood Partners, per <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/legal\/transactional\/nestle-divest-mainstream-supplements-business-1-billion-2026-09-01\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reuters<\/a>. The brands, largely based in the US but also present in Canada and China, generated about $1.2 billion in sales last year.&#13;\n                                    <\/p>\n<p class=\"storyParagraph\">&#13;<br \/>\n                                        The move continues Nestle&#8217;s push to shed non-core units and concentrate on four main pillars: coffee, pet care, nutrition, and food, per the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/business\/deals\/nestle-inks-1-billion-deal-to-sell-health-supplements-brands-to-private-equity-firm-7b6cb0ba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wall Street Journal<\/a>. &#8220;We are \u200cfocusing ?our resources where we have the strongest competitive advantage,&#8221; said CEO Philipp Navratil, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newser.com\/story\/374454\/nestle-ousts-ceo-over-relationship.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">took over the job<\/a> a year ago. He said Nestle wants to lean into &#8220;premium, science-led&#8221; supplements such as Solgar and Pure Encapsulations, while Yellow Wood argues the acquired brands can grow faster as a standalone company. The deal is expected to close by mid-2027, pending regulatory sign-off.&#13;\n                                    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Nestle is slimming down its supplement shelf, and it&#8217;s cashing a $1 billion check to do it.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124381,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[126],"tags":[10087,199,33750,60670],"class_list":["post-124380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nestle","tag-divestment","tag-nestle","tag-supplements","tag-vitamins"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/117201520880315619","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}