Health Foods

Blue Apron Corporate Office

Blue Apron is a recipe and meal ingredient subscription service. Weekly boxes contain ingredients and include suggested recipes that are cooked by hand by the customer using the pre-ordered ingredients.

Founded in 2012, friends Matt Salzberg, Ilia Papas, and Matt Wadiak packed the first boxes and delivered them from a commercial kitchen. Within one year, the company launched larger operations, first with a launching site in California, and later adding 3 additional sites. By 2015, Blue Apron was able to serve every state in the continental US.

In 2016, Buzzfeed reported unsanitary conditions at the original launch site in California. The company attributed this to its “new” status and made the necessary changes.

The company went public on the NYSE under the ticker symbol APRN in June of 2017. Since that time, Wall Street has cut the company’s stock price in half, which prompted Blue Apron to cut their staff by 6%.

Company headquarters are located in New York, New York.

MusclePharm Corporate Office

Two online friends, Cory Gregory and Brad Pyatt, were both interested in bodybuilding and often talked about how supplements can play a big part in that. In 2006, they began working on a formula which would contain all the ingredients that athletes and bodybuilders would want. MusclePharm was incorporated in 2006. The company went public on the OTCQB soon afterward, under the ticker symbol: MSLP.

The company is an online retailer which offers nutritional supplements and athletic gear. MusclePharm uses social media sites to promote their products, including a very active Twitter account, which has more than 200,000 followers. Arnold Schwarzenegger is one of the biggest shareholders in the company and lends his image to one product line, simply named “Arnold”.

The company has its own research and development team to create new products while sponsoring a host of athletes to promote current ones.

By the end of 2014, the company reported net revenue earnings of $67 million.

In September of 2015, MusclePharm was charged by the Securities and Exchange Commission with infractions related to a number of accounting and disclosure violations. The investigation found that the company failed to report, or grossly misrepresented, approximately $500,000 in benefits paid to three current or former executives and chairmen. The SEC also discovered that MusclePharm issued stock without a registration statement when it entered into numerous transactions with third parties that agreed in exchange for company shares to pay cash to MusclePharm vendors. MusclePharm owed vendors approximately $1.1 million in outstanding invoices and was short on funds to pay them. Founder and CEO Brad Pyatt stepped down and resigned as a result.

The company was also sued in 2016 by Hi-Tech Pharmaceuticals, who stated that the company was inflating the actual level of protein found in their “Arnold” Iron Mass products.

MusclePharm has headquarters in Denver, Colorado. The company has a B+ rating with the Better Business Bureau and ratings of 9.1 out of a possible 10 on sites such as Bodybuilding.com.

Factor75 Corporate Office

Founded in 2013, Factor 75 offers home delivery of natural, healthy, whole food meals. Food is pre-cooked and only needs reheating.

Factor75 delivers organic, non-GMO meals to homes and businesses, as well as offers nutritional supplements and consulting. Foods are low glycemic, hormone and antibiotic free, gluten free and contain no soy fillers, sugar or artificial sweeteners. There are also dairy free and Paleo options available. The company offers subscription plans for its customers, through which the orders are placed on an automated recurring basis.

The company is listed as #133 on the 2017 Inc. 5000 list of Fastest Growing Companies in America. In 2016, the company had annual revenue of $5.6 million and a three year growth rate of 2,938%. Factor75 took the #6 spot on the Inc. list of Top Food and Beverage Companies, as well as the #9 spot for both Top Chicago Companies and Top Illinois Companies.

Gluten Free Gem Corporate Office

Gluten Free Gem is a bakery based out of Portland, Oregon. The company started when Anne and Mike Miller discovered that their daughter had celiac disease and was unable to eat gluten. The pair opened their own bakery in 2006.

Due to a growing demand, the company quickly outgrew their original bakery and moved several times over the years. The company moved to its current location, complete with a retail store, in early 2017. The company has also expanded to include offering their products in various stores throughout the greater Portland, Oregon, area.

Gluten Free Gem is a GFCO Certified bakery. This ensures that all products are not only gluten free, but free from any risk of cross contamination from other products or other known allergens, such as peanuts. The company also offers special orders and wedding cakes.

Axe Wellness Corporate Office

Axe Wellness was founded in 2009 in Tennessee by current CEO and owner Dr. Josh Axe. The company operates a health and wellness website which offers diet, vitamins, and supplement products.

Dr. Josh Axe is a doctor of natural medicine. In 2009, he began his own website and company. The website is the most visited natural health site in the world, with more than 15 million monthly visitors. The site offers health advice and natural remedies, such as vitamin and mineral supplements, essential oils, and other natural means of healing.

The company is listed as #35 on the Inc. 5000 list of America’s Fastest Growing Companies. In the past 3 years, the company had a growth rate of 7,032%j and annual revenue in 2016 of $46.3 million. Dr. Axe has been criticized by many, however, and the site currently has an F rating from the Better Business Bureau.