2 primary owners of the holding company (jordan ruben (garden life)- dr. josh axe)
finance, it, legal
Ken and his executive mgmt team were the early employees there - has been a natural products industry
with Jordan and exec team - built garden of life sold it 7 years ago
started multiple companies and brands
get real holding company - other partners in holding acquired or launched brands
ancient nutrition -protein brand,Numa essential oil brand, functional fungi
other brands and concepts launched in 18 months
functional fungi- manufacturing in california- R&D, formulate, from that location supply patented raw materials
supply to other nutrition companies
retail brands- functional fungi - take medicinal mushrooms that have been used in chinese medicine. patented this process
fungi based fermentation process
at the core of who they are product idea and manufacturer and distribute to third party supplement manufacture or resellers
or through their own brand sell primarily to vitamin shoppe, whole foods, etc
have online re-sellers and chiropractors
$125mm combination of four main operating company
ancient nutrtion
fungi- formulate products for dr. axe
numa
dr. axe.com - nashville
(dr. axe products have branded protein, they also sell ancient nutrition, -traditional health and wellness website pump out content, draw people into their social media platforms) sell naturall products
Jordan and Dr. Josh put up the funding for this activity
haven't outsourced their hiring
someone who works in nashville location- who hires for them -she does a lot of the administrative
director of quality is most important - supplement dietary
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