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Company Introduction

Founded in Amsterdam, the Netherlands in 1998, Vitaminstore has grown to become one of the country's largest specialty store in food supplements, sports nutrition ad natural cosmetics.
With twenty stores in all major Dutch cities and a large online store, Vitaminstore is the go-to store for any health related product or advice.
Nowadays, Vitaminstore has come to China and use the Chinese Name of “維養薈”, they have opened two stores in Xiamen & Shanghai already, hope to bring the health store concept into the Chinese market.

Brand Origin

Vitaminstore is established in 1998 in the Holland, which was founded by Mr. Koert Otten and Mr. Alain Vermeulen. Now, almost fifteen years after opening their first store in Amsterdam, they decided to cross the boarders and expand internationally. Their personal interest in China and its health-conscious culture were decisive to expand their health store concept into the Chinese market.

Brand Concept

Love Health, Love Life. The purpose of Vitaminstore is to pay attention to everybody's health and happiness and to provide the professional service to everyone.

Brand Develpoment

In 2012, there are more than 20 physical stores in Holland, which are located in every main city center of the country.
At Vitaminstore you can now find more than 2,000 different products, among which are the best brands of vitamins availablein the market. The company's ecommerce website, even sells 40,000 different products. The total corporate revenue exceeded 85,000,000 RMB in 2011, of which 25 million was made in online sales. With a market share of almost 25%, Vitaminstore is the biggest chain of health stores in the Netherlands.
In 2010 Vitaminstore successfully expanded their online sales channels in Europe, and today they have opened their store in Xiamen China. The store there will be the first of the projected 300 Vitaminstore's that will open throughout the country in the coming years. Another store in Shanghai will be open at the middle of December, 2012.

Physical store

Vitaminstore has more than 20 stores in Netherlands: Alkmaar; Amstelveen; Amsterdam (2); Amersfoort ;Den Bosch; TheHague; Gouda; Haarlem; Heemstede; Heerlen; Leidschendam; Leusden; Pijnacker; Roermond; Rotterdam (2); Utrecht; Vlaardingen; Weert.
Vitaminstore has two stores in China already: Xiamen, Shanghai.

E-commerce

In Europe, online sales are generated through Vitaminstore's own E-commerce channels such as Vitaminstore Holland & Vitaminstore Germany.
In China, Vitaminstore sells its products through three platforms: Taobao, Tmall and its own branded site.

Product Categorie

So far, there're 5 own brands (about 400 kinds of products) and another 35 brands (about 3000 kinds of products) set up through 14 years.
Vitaminstore sells products that can be categorized under three main categories: Health, Sports and Beauty.

Health

Vitaminstore only retails imported high-class health brands. Vitamins and minerals frombrands like Jarrows (USA), Organika (Canada) and Blackmores (Australia) are carefully selected and tested to guarantee high quality.

Sport

Vitaminstore's sports section contains international sports nutrition used by athletes. Whether you want to grow some muscles, lose weight or train for a marathon, Vitaminstore will advise the best product for your goals.

Beauty

Vitaminstore only uses natural ingredients for their beauty products. You will experience the benefit of this, for your hair, nails and skin, without the disadvantages of chemically produced cosmetics.

Promotion

In China, combined with Vitaminstore's loyalty system, they arrange a lot of in-store & online promotions. They also make interactive communication with their customers and partners through public activities and social media.

Customer Service

Vitaminstore's friendly and well trained staff will help you and answer all your questions about vitamins, offering an honest and well supported advice to everybody. Vitaminstore follow this rule and concept both in Europe and China, and insist to offer high quality imported products, combined with the best possible personal service and advice from in house trained staff.
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