Herbalife cuts the ribbon at a new $7 million research and development facility in Torrance, CA.
Nutrition supplement company Herbalife Nutrition has opened a $7 million research and development center on its Torrance, CA, manufacturing campus that will focus on sensory science and quality control to help develop new nutrition products.
Herbalife is a nutrition supplement maker with a global network of distributors for its products in more than 90 countries. The company posted nearly $5 billion in revenue last year.
In May, Herbalife’s president, Stephan Gratziani, became the new chief executive, succeeding longtime chief Michael Johnson, who is now executive chairman.
Herbalife executives at the ribbon cutting ceremony. (Photo credit: Thomas Wasper)
The new Torrance center is one of three research and testing labs Herbalife has in the United States. The company also has a lab in Lake Forest in Orange County, and the third is in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Herbalife also has six research and development centers outside the United States: three in China and one each in Brazil, India and the United Kingdom.
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Construction began in February on the 8,600-square foot research and development lab space on the same campus as one of Herbalife’s main manufacturing centers.
The lab now houses more than 40 researchers. It