Optimum Nutrition
| Optimum Nutrition, Inc. | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Incorporated |
| founding | 1987 |
| Seat |
Downers Grove , Illinois , United States
|
| sales | 655 million US dollars |
| Branch | retail trade |
| Website | www.optimumnutrition.com/ |
| Status: 2019 | |
Optimum Nutrition, Inc. is a US manufacturer of nutritional supplements based in Illinois . The company emerged from Costello's Health Distributors, founded in 1986 by the brothers Tony and Michael Costello. Since 2008, Optimum Nutrition has been part of the Irish Glanbia Group.
history
Since 2008, Optimum Nutrition has been part of the Glanbia Group , which bought the company for $ 315 million. At that time, Optimum Nutrition had 387 employees and generated $ 185 million in sales on $ 32 million in profit. Since 2011, the Glanbia Group has also owned the US dietary supplement company Bio-Engineered Supplements and Nutrition, Inc. (BSN) .
Products
Optimum Nutrition is best known for the Gold Standard 100% whey. It is the world's best-selling whey protein powder . In addition, in 2005 Optimum Nutrition launched the Gold Standard 100% Casein, the first protein powder that consisted exclusively of casein protein , thus establishing the category of slowly digestible protein powders. Optimum Nutrition is the only supplement company that makes products in every category, including bars, protein powders, ready-to-drink shakes and beverages, energy products, multivitamins and other health and wellness products.
The products are sold in a total of almost 10,000 specialty stores, fitness studios and in large supermarkets and drugstores. They are available for purchase in over 70 countries. Optimum Nutrition has manufacturing facilities in Aurora, Illinois , Walterboro, South Carolina, and Sunrise, Florida .
Sponsorship
Optimum Nutrition partnered with England's national rugby team in 2019 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Anni Schleicher: Glanbia revenues rise despite sports nutrition struggles. Nutrition Insight, February 27, 2020, accessed May 8, 2020 .
- ↑ a b Glanbia Acquires a Leading US Sports Nutrition Company for $ 315 million. American Dairy Products Institute, accessed May 8, 2020 .
- ↑ Glanbia Performance Nutrition. Purdue University Food and Agribusiness Executive Summit, 2017, accessed May 8, 2020 .
- ↑ Glanbia Performance Nutrition. Glandia.com, accessed May 8, 2020 .
- ↑ Hayley Richardson: Should YOU be using protein powder? We breakdown the benefits and exactly how to get the best from your workout. Daily Mail Online, February 6, 2020, accessed May 8, 2020 .
- ↑ Prominent Sports Nutrition Brand Optimum Nutrition Celebrates Thirty Years. Cision PR Newswire, July 13, 2016, accessed May 8, 2020 .
- ↑ ABOUT US. Retrieved May 8, 2020 .
- ↑ ENGLAND RUGBY JOINS TEAM OPTIMUM. March 5, 2019, accessed May 8, 2020 .