Dozens of new foods and beverage across categories to enter market this year
The Hain Celestial Group, Inc. introduced more than 100 new products at Natural Products Expo West in Anaheim, California. Hain Celestial's products will be rolling out now through the end of 2015 and sold in selected markets in the United States. In its last fiscal year, Hain Celestial's new products generated over $100 million in net sales on a worldwide basis.
"This is a banner year for Hain Celestial's innovation pipeline. We are proud of our brands and our new product innovation that demonstrates our continued leadership in the organic and natural space," said Irwin D. Simon, Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer of Hain Celestial. "Our ability to globally source distinctive ingredients, coupled with our nimble, innovation-focused culture, has resulted in product uniqueness with quality and speed-to-market that rival the rest. Our exciting line-up features food, beverage, snack and personal care products for all age groups and lifestyles, with particular attention to millennial consumers, an important segment for Hain Celestial's growth."
In the year since the last Expo West Hain Celestial has acquired new brands that extend the company's existing portfolio of innovative and high quality natural and certified organic products. The new brands include Rudi's Organic Bakery®, a leading organic and gluten-free brand offering a diversified line of bread and baked goods products and fresh and frozen FreeBird® chicken and Plainville Farms® turkey that are never, ever given antibiotics. More recently, Hain Celestial purchased the Live Clean® personal care brand and Empire Kosher. Some of the highlights of this year's lineup of new products includes: