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NBTY- a global wellness and nutritional supplement company based out of Bohemia, NY - saw its stock take a sharp fall last Friday after announcing that shares of NBTY Inc missed Wall Street’s expectations.

NBTY operates both with the network marketing platform and through retail sales. The company operates under NBTY and is also marketed other third party brands, including Vitamin World and Natures Bounty. The global company offers offer 22,000 products and nutritional supplements.

Late last week, NBTY reported that their earning for the period ending March 31st fell 23 percent to $44.2 million, compared with $57.4 million from a year earlier.

While many industry experts feel that the decline in earning and shares is most likely a timing issue, the company blamed increasing costs of advertising, as well as selling, general and administrative costs as the cause of the decline in earnings.

In the next few weeks, many of the larger Network Marketing Companies will be reporting their earnings. So far, the news has not been as stellar as either the industry or Wall Street has predicted with the exception of Avon. Generally speaking Network Marketing companies do well in tough economic times as people need extra income. Many companies see a large rise in the number of distributors. We will see in the next few weeks whether the increase in distributors translates into dollars for the companies.

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