The Amazon marketplace – September 2019 update

Industry Transparency Center has been following and reporting on the “Amazon Effect” on the dietary supplement industry since March 2017. In that time, the impacts have been numerous and far…

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Amazon gumming up the supplement market and going to the dogs

It’s been just over 900 days since Amazon launched their first brand of supplements, Amazon Elements,  with only four SKUs. Today, the brand carries 50. Amazon brands are continuing to…

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The Confusing State of States’ Sales Tax

Confusion has been the consistent word whenever we speak of regulations and how they are interpreted and applied to the ecommerce retailer. Usually we are discussing the FDA or FTC…

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A rose by any other name – The Amazon CBD Story

The CBD and hemp conversation is extremely confusing right now, and perhaps nowhere more so than in a dialogue with e-tailing giant Amazon. Amazon has taken an apparently clear position…

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A New Amazon Bezos Twist

We deliberately write a lot about Amazon in this blog series since we see Amazon as not only a powerful force in and of itself, but because in many ways…

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When it comes to search, Amazon is sparking

I was listening to NPR yesterday (as a Comms pro, media consumption is an all day everyday thing), and my ears perked up when Amazon was mentioned. But this wasn’t…

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Trade War Raises Industry’s China Conundrum…Again

As the possibility of an extended trade war between the United States and China heats up and rhetoric flies, the dietary supplement industry finds itself in strange territory. This pending…

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The Amazon Effect on Supplements

While Amazon began by selling books, the impact the corporation has on the economic market now effects almost every consumer and business segment in some capacity. Amazon sells diapers and…

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