Spectrum Organic Products, Inc. - SPOP- Profile

Spectrum Organic Products, Inc.. The Company's principal activity is to manufacture, pack and sell nutritional supplements and organic and natural food products, including cooking and nutritional oils, condiments, dressings and butter substitutes on a wholesale basis. It operates in three primary segments: Spectrum Naturals, Spectrum Ingredients and Spectrum Essentials. Spectrum Naturals segment consists of culinary oils, condiments, salad dressings, cooking sprays and shortening. Spectrum Ingredients offers organic and non-organic industrial ingredients to other food manufacturers, vinegar, mayonnaise, shortening and nutritional oils sold in institutional sizes and bulk capsules. Spectrum Essentials markets fatty acid nutritional supplements which includes Flax, Borage, Evening Primrose, Cod Liver, Norwegian Fish and Wheat Germ oils. The products of the Company are offered in over 6,000 health food stores nationwide and 2,000 grocery stores located throughout the United States and Canada. Spectrum Naturals accounted for 48% of 2004 revenues; Spectrum Ingredients, 33%, Spectrum Essentials, 19%