NBTY acquisition
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
Supplement firm buys customer lists, URLs for Vitamins.com, WebRx.com from bankrupt HealthCentral for $2.8 mil. Acquisition includes customer list for L&H Vitamins mail-order operation. Deal was approved Dec. 6 in HealthCentral's bankruptcy proceedings and is expected to close later this month. Acquired operations had sales of approximately $15 mil. for the last 12 months and a combined customer list of roughly 1.8 mil. names, NBTY says. HealthCentral and its subsidiaries filed for Chapter 11 protection in October (1"The Tan Sheet" Oct. 15, In Brief)...