Hain Celestial Group Overview
Company Headquarters: Colorado, U.S.
Founded: 1993
Workforce: 7,825 employees as of December 2017
Company Working: The Hain Celestial Group, Inc. manufactures, markets, distributes, and sells organic and natural products. Its grocery products include infant formula; infant, toddler, and kids’ foods; diapers and wipes; rice and grain-based products; flour and baking mixes; breads, hot and cold cereals, pasta, condiments, cooking and culinary oils, granolas, and cereal bars; canned, chilled fresh, aseptic, and instant soups, and many more. The company sells its products through specialty and natural food distributors, supermarkets, natural food stores, mass-market and e-commerce retailers, food service channels and clubs, and drug and convenience stores in approximately 80 countries worldwide.
Strategy
The company is committed to developing innovative and quality products for which it hugely invests in the R&D sector. Hain incurred approximately US$11.4 million in research and development activities, consisting primarily of personnel related costs, in FY2016. In addition to developing new products, the R&D staff improves existing products based on advances in ingredients, packaging and technology. With this strong emphasis on research, the company consistently introduces new products in the market. The company’s primary focus is growing in organic products for which they are involved in acquisitions, mergers and partnership with various companies having presence in organic market. Having presence of strong peers, the company is expanding and growing in organic products which has a huge demand in the market.



