Intestine Well being, Rising Manufacturers Focus of Keynotes at Naturally Unbiased Expo

Bluebonnet Vitamin (Sugar Land, TX), has introduced it is going to sponsor a free breakfast and academic lecture by Carl Germano, CNS, CDN, on the upcoming Naturally Unbiased Expo (NIE) in Palm Springs, CA. The annual convention and commerce present for impartial well being meals retailers takes place Nov. 14-15 on the Palm Springs Conference Heart.

Germano, a long-time fixture on the well being meals business commerce present lecture circuit, will provide a brand new academic presentation throughout the breakfast on the subject, “Past the Fitness center: How Intestine Well being Fuels Motion, Restoration and Longevity.” Germano’s lecture, which takes place at 10 a.m. on Saturday, Nov. 15, will discover the highly effective, science-backed connection between the intestine microbiome and bodily efficiency.

The Naturally Unbiased Expo opens on Friday, Nov. 14, with its Retailer Training Day beginning at 9 a.m. The theme of this 12 months’s training program is “Nuts & Bolts of Pure Merchandise Retailing,” with a number of business specialists and retailers scheduled to take part in discussions centered on serving to independents enhance their gross sales, product combine, operations and total degree of success!

Among the many pure merchandise business specialists scheduled to look throughout Friday’s Retailer Training Day is Kate Money, CEO of Spark Strategic Advisors (Denver, CO), who will give a lecture on “Native Manufacturers as an Rising Level of Distinction at Retail.”

In accordance with Money, her discuss will discover how native and regional manufacturers have gotten a key differentiator for retailers in an more and more crowded and aggressive market. “I’ll converse to how retailers can harness the facility of community-driven storytelling, assist authenticity on shelf, and construct stronger connections with immediately’s acutely aware client by championing native innovation,” she famous.

A few of the different subjects on faucet for NIE’s academic program embrace:

• “Good Issues Are available in Small Packages” – How small shops can compete in opposition to on-line sellers like Amazon in addition to massive field retail opponents.
• “Gross sales Coaching 101” – That includes Starkie Sowers, director of training at Clark’s Vitamin, who will lead a dialogue about coaching retailer workers to efficiently interface with shoppers to spice up gross sales outcomes.
• “Consumers Beware” – A panel of seasoned pure merchandise patrons talk about finest practices for retaining the shop cabinets crammed with prime manufacturers and merchandise to satisfy ever-changing buyer wants.
• “What’s New – Now?” – Methods for retaining updated with the latest merchandise and rising well being developments within the pure merchandise business.

Along with these “Nuts & Bolts” periods, NIE’s Friday Training Day may also embrace a number of vendor-sponsored product training seminars. Included amongst these are such subjects as: “Nitric Oxide For Wholesome Growing old and Longevity” sponsored by Berkeley Life; “The Position of Dietary Dietary supplements in Managing Dermatological Circumstances” sponsored by Codex Labs; and “Microplastics’ Impacts on Human Well being and Protection Methods” sponsored by 1 Life Science.

Free Admission & “Present {Dollars}”

Admission to the Naturally Unbiased Expo is free to all certified well being and pure product shops and their staff. And all shops attending this 12 months’s occasion will mechanically obtain a free, one-year membership to the Positively Pure Community (PNN), which gives quite a lot of advantages and companies to impartial retailers.

In accordance with Jeremiah Bogenhagen, president of PNN, a number of the different advantages and perks to retailers for attending this 12 months’s NIE convention embrace:

• Resort Room Vouchers as much as $250 can be found to a restricted variety of certified pure product retailers on a primary come, first served foundation. Go to the present web site for extra info and to use.
• $2,000 “Present {Dollars}” Raffle to be held every day of the present ($1,000 per day on Friday and Saturday), giving retail attendees a possibility to win $100 product order vouchers that they will apply towards orders positioned throughout the present.
• Mexican Riviera Cruise grand prize raffle for retailer attendees that takes place on the shut of the present on Saturday, together with different helpful prizes. Retailers have to be current to win.
• Unique show-only specials and reductions from exhibiting corporations.
• Free meals and networking alternatives.

“We’re planning to have an incredible present in Palm Springs this November, and we encourage all impartial well being meals shops from the West Coast and past to hitch us!” Bogenhagen remarked.

To register for the Naturally Unbiased Expo, go to the present’s web site at www.positivelynatural.org.