Nutraceuticals
World’s Most Productive Companies
Nutraceuticals: A Difficult Year, One Clear Leader
Nutraceuticals covers supplements, functional nutrition, and direct-selling health and wellness companies. The group is sensitive to shifting consumer demand and channel disruption, and its direct-selling members in particular have faced softer volumes as buying habits change.
2025 was a difficult year. The group slipped below its 2019 baseline and was among the weakest in Life Sciences, with only one company improving. Glanbia was the clear standout and the group’s World’s Most Productive Company, using a strong ingredients and performance-nutrition position to hold productivity well above its peers while much of the group gave back ground.
Nutraceuticals World's Most Productive Companies
Productivity Snapshot
- Nutraceuticals ranks seventh of eight Life Sciences peer groups in 2025, at an Industrial Productivity Index of 0.94, below its 2019 baseline.
- It was a hard year: only one of the six companies in the group grew productivity, and the group fell about 6% over the 2019–2025 window.
- Glanbia is the group’s World’s Most Productive Company, holding 1.08 on the strength of its ingredients and performance-nutrition business.
- Shifting consumer demand and channel disruption weighed on the rest of the group, especially its direct-selling members.
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