VS Holdings Company Description
VS Holdings (dba The Vitamin Shoppe) helps vitamin shoppers meet their recommended daily requirements. The company sells vitamins, supplements, and minerals, as well as herbal, homeopathic, and personal care products, through some 340 The Vitamin Shoppe stores in more than 30 US states and the District of Columbia, its monthly catalog, and VitaminShoppe.com. (The company spun off VitaminShoppe.com in 1999 but bought it back in 2001.) The stores offer more than 8,500 items from over 400 national brands, plus the company's own private-label products. Founded in 1977 as a corner shop in New York City, in 2002 the company was taken private by Bear Stearns Merchant Banking and other investors.
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