Health & Wellness: Still Growing --Expo West this week

I'll be at the Natural Products Expo West this week.  Send me an email at mcb@ceicommunityventures.com  if you'd like to touch base.    Expo West is now one of the largest tradeshows in the US -- with over 3000 exhibitors and over 50,000 attendees.  I'll be there looking at interesting new companies and products and in support of Putney Pasta and Rustic Crust.  One of the first companies that I am working with under Royal River Associates (RRA), Blake's All Natural, will also be there.  If you have a natural products company and are looking for assistance, perhaps RRA can help you.  I'm hoping to write some of the Case Studies for the RRA website on the plane ride out to California -- perhaps the stories of how I've worked with Putney and Rustic over the past few years in creating the brands, developing the teams, crating new product lines, raising capital, etc...  And some of the strategic work I've done for larger, Fortune 500 companies when I was a Consultant at Bain & Co., Inc.

One thing is for sure, even in this deep recession, natural/organic foods is still a growth industry. I saw an article today from Sustainable Food News (I highly recommend this daily online newsletter) that growth in the US organic sector has fallen, but still remains a strong double-digit 12.5%.