NBTY Forced To Hike Prices By Leiner Integration Costs, Shrinking Margins
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
NBTY plans to raise prices for its Nature's Bounty brand dietary supplements in January 2009 following a 63.8 percent decrease in net income in its latest earnings period
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