NBTY Trims US Retail Profile While Exiting Contract Manufacturing
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
The Vitamin World deal jettisons one of NBTY's slower-performing businesses after the firm previously began exiting the low-margin contract manufacturing sector. The acquisition by a Centre Lane Partners unit is the second private equity move in the supplement space in two weeks.
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