MEMBERSHIP INFORMATION
SOUTHEAST NATURAL PRODUCTS ASSOCIATION

  • Supporting and encouraging the production, marketing and consumption of nutritional foods, supplements and related specialty
    products which provide optimum health opportunities to the consumer.
  • Encouraging the recruitment and retention of businesses for membership whose primary focus is the promotion of optimum
    health and who agree to observe the Natural Products Association Code of Ethics.
  • Encouraging adherence to product and label integrity and the development of adequate standards to insure highest quality
    products where adequate standards do not exist.
  • Providing education.
  • Encouraging nutritional research and disseminate the findings.
  • Encouraging laws and regulations consistent with Association goals; and to protect the industry from laws, regulations and
    other actions adverse to its best interests.
  • Serving as a unified voice for the businesses that promote optimum health.

Membership Categories

Membership in this Organization is available to persons or firms involved in, or associated with, the nutritional food industry --
Retailers of Suppliers:

Retail Membership

Independent Retailers: A retail store may join the National Nutritional Foods Association Southeast   Region, Inc. To qualify as
a retailer store you must be primarily engaged int he independent retailing of  nutritional products from a self-contained store(s) where
a minimum of seventy-five percent (75%) of the gross sales consists of nutritional foods, food supplements and related items.

Any retailer who engages in the retail sale of private label merchandise bearing labels with word "Distributed By" shall not be
construed to be a "distributor" or "wholesaler/jobber" unless the retailer sells such private label merchandise to other retailers for a
profit.

Supplier Membership

Suppliers: Membership in Southeast Region is a separate membership from the membership to the Natural Products Association.

All companies who purchase full exhibits spaces at the SOHO EXPO  are given membership status for one year at no extra charge.
National dues are paid separately. For more details on National membership, call 1-800-966-6632, extension 230. Join today and
start receiving you monthly newsletter and regular fax updates as well as many other benefits. Current National members that
exhibit in the SOHO EXPO are noted in its show program.

  • Manufacturer/Distributor: Those firms that manufacture or distribute an individual product or group of products to
    wholesalers/jobbers, or directly to nutritional food retail stores.
  • Wholesalers/Jobbers: Those firms whose principal function is the purchasing, wholesale distribution and marketing of
    products from manufacturerd/distributors of nutritional foods, food supplements and related items, and whose business is the
    selling and wholesale distribution of these items fro a warehouse to nutritional food retail stores.
  • Brokers: Those firms or individuals who represent manufacturers/distributors in the marketing/sales of nutritional foods, food
    supplements and related items shall be eligible for membership.

Associate/Affiliate Memberships

Associate membership is available to persons or firms furnishing goods and services to the nutritional food industry and Affiliate
membership is available to educators with a special interest in nutritional foods industry.

Nutritional Professional and Publisher memberships also available.

Application for Membership: All applicant for membership shall complete and sign the form of application provided by this
association. Contact Southeast Region for proper application forms at 1-800-828-7250 or click on form below.
Membership forms:

Southeast Membership Benefits
Retail Membership Application
Supplier Membership Application
Affiliated Business Associate Membership Application

We also invite you to join our National Association, The Natural Products Association
(Formerly NNfA), the Voice of the Natural Products Industry.

Founded in 1936, the Natural Products Association is a national non-profit trade association dedicated to protecting and advancing
the natural products industry. Through your membership, your business joins forces with more than 4,000 other manufacturers,
wholesalers, distributors and retailers of natural products whose views and collective voice contribute directly to the industry's strength
and effectiveness.

The most important benefit of Natural Products Association membership is the legislative and regulatory protection that it supports.
The Association's powerful lobbying presence in Washington, D.C., works to protect and advance the common goals of the natural
products industry and gives voice to the interests and concerns of its members.

National Membership Information