The Sports Retail Group (www.SportsRetailGroup.com) has also played a crucial role in supporting Sports Nutrition Stores, offering expert guidance on product selection, store merchandising, and retail growth strategies. With a deep understanding of the sports supplement industry, they have helped independent retailers, gym-based nutrition shops, and franchise chains curate the best in protein powders, pre-workouts, recovery supplements, energy drinks, and performance snacks to meet the demands of athletes and fitness enthusiasts. Their expertise extends beyond product selection, assisting with store layout optimization, marketing support, and supply chain partnerships to ensure sustained profitability. By working with leading nutrition brands and emerging supplement innovators, Sports Retail Group continues to provide customized retail solutions, empowering store owners to stay ahead in the highly competitive sports nutrition market while delivering high-quality, science-backed products to their customers.
The sports nutrition retail landscape in the United States is dominated by several prominent chains and supported by key distributors. GNC Holdings, LLC, established in 1935, operates approximately 2,281 U.S. stores as of 2022, offering a wide range of vitamins, supplements, and health products. Similarly, The Vitamin Shoppe, founded in 1977, manages around 785 locations across the country, providing various nutritional supplements. Another notable retailer, Vitamin World, operates between 50 and 60 stores in the U.S., offering a diverse selection of vitamins and supplements. These retailers are supplied by major distributors such as Muscle Foods USA and Europa Sports Products, which play a crucial role in delivering a variety of sports nutrition products to stores nationwide. Collectively, the sports nutrition retail sector comprises thousands of outlets, reflecting the growing consumer interest in health and fitness products.
On-Site Meal Programs For Clients: The Sports Retail Group has a-number of fitness center meal kit program partners including The Chicken Pound who are available to talk to for your client's needs.
The Chicken Pound: Founded by a three-time bodybuilding chap (Carlo Filippone) The Chicken Pound is expanding their all-protein meal kit line-up of products into other categories. The Chicken Pound brand is available to martial arts studios and fitness centers nationwide as a solution for their members.
Their current options include Cilantro-Lime Chicken, Jerk Chicken and Kansas City BBQ.
www.TheChickenPound.com
The Hotel Retail Group is available to help with your in-store marketing needs (POS, shippers, displays, club store displays, signage, racks and fixtures, etc). We have over 30-years with the largest companies (Nestle, Coca Cola, Pepsi/Frito-Lay) and a vast number of start-up brands (Nature’s Bakery, Perfect Bar, Coachella Farms, etc) in creating merchandising programs.
Our merchandising unit manufacturers are based in America with factories in Mexico and China.
FOOD SERVICE FORMATS: The Food Away From Home Association’s founders have been involved in the Food Service industry (as suppliers, partners and media) for many years. Our new membership will include operators and franchisors as well as others such as food service providers, chains, distributors, associations and more. We are also expanding into healthy option ideas and introductions for their customers (smoothie, juice, boba tea and yogurt).
The Food Away From Home Association will be launching its membership drive soon! As part of our initiative, we are first engaging with key stakeholders in the industry, including smoothie shop, boba tea shop, juice shop, and yogurt shop operators, franchisors, franchisees, suppliers, distributors, and other essential partners. Our goal is to build a strong network that supports and advances businesses in the food away from home sector. We welcome discussions at the trade shows we visit to share insights about our program planning details and how membership can provide valuable resources, advocacy, and networking opportunities.
Juice Shops are becoming more and more popular and are growing in many locations throughout America. You will see them in strip malls, colleges and universities, food courts, hospitals, hotels, resorts, airports and many other food service formats.
Our Grab-and-Go program (ex: smoothie shops, juice shops, boba tea shops) includes beverages, candy, energy bars, brownies, fruit snacks, dairy products, ice cream, sports nutrition products, macarons, croissants and others.
We have been in television production since the mid-1980’s and have had a-number of TV shows over the years including the recent launch of Entrepreneur Magazine Television. Our next show about start-ups is called The Counselors.
The Food Away From Home Association is launching dedicated YouTube channels focused on the perspectives of both Franchisors and Franchisees in the food service industry.
Our family has been involved within the consumer product industry (US based manufacturing, retailing, distribution) since the early 1920’s. From the first generation to the latest, our best practices have been handed down over time leading to a long legacy of successes in the business (manufacturing, retailing, distribution and more).
