Swander Pace expands Captek’s operations less than two years after acquiring the firm and seven months after investing in a protein supplement manufacturer as one of numerous private equity firms active in the nutritional products space.

Carlyle's $2.2bn sale of Nature's Bounty's Holland & Barrett business to a Russian investment fund is the latest sign of the private equity sector's continuing interest in the health and wellness space.

ANSI-approved, consensus-based standards for supplement GMPs set to debut in early 2017 should help reduce the overall number of audits required for the category, says the Global Retailer and Manufacturer Alliance, which has worked since 2014 to develop the standard.

The firm owned since 2010 by a Carlyle Group holding company opts for a name that encompasses its largest brand, which also had been its name until the previous management chose the name NBTY in 1995.