Swisse bought by Hong Kong company Biostime for $1.67 billion
It was the brainchild of organic baker Kevin Ring, who started selling pollen tablets from his St Kilda naturopathics shop back in 1972.
Ring’s hand-made vitamin tablets, inspired by a trip to Switzerland in the late 1960s, were soon doing better than the bread, and a little shop under the Suisse brand was opened in Melbourne’s suburbs in the early 1970s.
Later changed to Swisse for legal reasons, that little shop blossomed into the country’s biggest wellness company, and has just been sold to overseas buyers for an astonishing $1.67 billion. Sydney Morning Herald – Read more…
Ring’s hand-made vitamin tablets, inspired by a trip to Switzerland in the late 1960s, were soon doing better than the bread, and a little shop under the Suisse brand was opened in Melbourne’s suburbs in the early 1970s.
Later changed to Swisse for legal reasons, that little shop blossomed into the country’s biggest wellness company, and has just been sold to overseas buyers for an astonishing $1.67 billion. Sydney Morning Herald – Read more…
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