The Vitamin Shoppe

Vitamin Shop Industries Inc.
Company typeSubsidiary
IndustryRetail
Founded1977; 47 years ago (1977) (as Vitamin Shoppe Industries, Inc.)
HeadquartersSecaucus, New Jersey, U.S.[1]
Number of locations
785 (December 2017)[2]
Key people
ProductsNutritional supplements
ParentFranchise Group
Websitevitaminshoppe.com
Footnotes / references
[3]
Vitamin Shoppe store, Ann Arbor, Michigan

The Vitamin Shoppe (formerly Vitamin Shoppe Industries, Inc., stylized as the VitaminShoppe) is an American, New Jersey–based retailer of nutritional supplements. It also operated three stores in Canada under the name VitaPath from January 2013 until March 2016. The company provides approximately 7,000 different SKUs of supplements through its retail stores and over 17,000 different SKUs of supplements through its retail websites.[2]

In 2002, Vitamin Shoppe Industries was sold to an affiliate of Bear Stearns Merchant Banking, a private equity unit of Bear Stearns, for approximately $310 million.[4]

The Vitamin Shoppe held an initial public offering on October 26, 2009.[5] The company made $751.5 million in net sales in fiscal 2010 and had a market capitalization of over $1 billion.[6] Since attaining its peak in February 2013, the stock has lost more than 90% of its value as of August 2017.[7]

Vitamin Shoppe was acquired by Franchise Group on December 16, 2019.[8]

  1. ^ "Vitamin Shoppe, Inc. Contact Us". The Vitamin Shoppe. Archived from the original on February 14, 2019. Retrieved February 13, 2019.
  2. ^ a b "Vitamin Shoppe 2017 Annual Report" (PDF). The Vitamin Shoppe. 2017. Retrieved October 10, 2020.
  3. ^ "The Vitamin Shoppe Names Lee A. Wright as Chief Executive Officer and Muriel Gonzalez as President". May 26, 2023. Retrieved December 10, 2023.
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference nyt-2002-12-12 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ "VITAMIN SHOPPE, INC.: VSI (NYSE)". Hoovers. Archived from the original on July 12, 2011. Retrieved October 18, 2009.
  6. ^ "The Vitamin Shoppe - Investor Relations - Investor Relations Home". Phx.corporate-ir.net. Archived from the original on June 13, 2013. Retrieved September 2, 2013.
  7. ^ "Yahoo Finance Chart". Archived from the original on August 26, 2017. Retrieved August 25, 2017.
  8. ^ "Franchise Group, Inc. Closes on the Acquisition of The Vitamin Shoppe". Nasdaq. December 16, 2019.