MEMBERSHIP INFORMATION
SOUTHEAST NATURAL PRODUCTS ASSOCIATION
The Southeast Natural Products Association,
an association of businesses promoting optimum health, is dedicated to:

  • 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
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