GNC Holdings, Inc.

Pittsburgh, PA United States

  (NYSE: GNC)

Company Description

What's good for the GNC customer is great for the company's bottom line. GNC Holdings operates the world's leading nutritional-supplements retail chain devoted to items such as vitamins and dietary products. The firm makes Rite Aid private-label products and through a partnership with drugstore.com sells its products online. Altogether, GNC has some 7,200 stores, consisting of 2,900 company-owned stores in the US, Canada, and Puerto Rico, followed by 2,300 franchised stores in 46 countries, and 2,000 store-within-a-store sites in Rite Aid locations. GNC is owned by the Ontario Teachers' Pension Board Plan, its affiliate Ares Corporate Opportunities Fund II, and management. The company went public in April 2011.