Marketing Advantages for Branded Ingredients

Dietary supplement marketing today requires transparency. After years of mainstream media raising all kinds of questions about the safety and efficacy of products this industry produces, people are skeptical, even as the number of users continues to grow.

Consumers have access to more information—at any time or location—than ever before. Consequently, more supplement brands are pulling back the curtain to reveal their testing practices, manufacturing facilities, company policies, and especially what their ingredients are and how they choose them. Suppliers with heavy investment in branded ingredients are making it easier for their customers to provide that information to consumers, and some of their stories will resonate deeply with supplement users. In the near future we’ll see an increasing number of brands putting the stories their suppliers have to tell front and center in more of their marketing efforts. Some branded ingredient companies are even reaching out directly to educate retailers in the health food channel about their products.