Word: schwabe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Utah, where the dry desert air helps keeps raw materials and pills and capsules fresh, and where land and skilled labor have been relatively inexpensive. Utah's free-enterprise culture has nurtured characters like Tom Murdock, an Arizona entrepreneur who in 1969 started what is now Murdock Madaus Schwabe, whose Nature's Way line is the top-selling herbal brand in health-food stores. Murdock founded the company to market the chaparral herb, which he had used to treat his cancer-stricken wife...
Today closely held Murdock Madaus Schwabe crushes and packages herbs in a factory the size of several football fields. Farther up I-15, near Salt Lake City, neighboring Nature's Herbs is in the midst of its third expansion in four years--this one aimed at tripling production to 2 million capsules an hour. That kind of growth enabled Nature's Herbs, a unit of Twinlab of Ronkonkoma, N.Y., to boost its sales 50% last year...
...from companies that research their products. For example, most studies of ginkgo biloba, which appears to delay the progression of early Alzheimer's disease in some patients, have been conducted on an extract produced by Schwabe of Germany and distributed in the U.S. by Nature's Way (Ginkgold) and Warner-Lambert (the Quanterra line). The best-studied version of St. John's wort, which seems to work for mild to moderate depression, is Kira, produced by Lichtwer...