CEOs You Should Know Jim Hamel Swanson Health Products

A dynamic and seasoned executive, Jim Hamel assumed leadership of Swanson

Health Products, a global vitamin and supplement company in November 2021. As CEO,

he has led the company to achieve double digit revenue growth internationally in his first

fiscal year and has overseen expansion into 170+ international markets totaling over

US $80M in revenue.

Under Jim’s leadership, Swanson Health Products has continued its commitment to

industry-leading service, quality and excellence with award-winning customer care and

ongoing UL, NSF and Halal certification for achieving Good Manufacturing Practices and

standards.

Earlier in his executive career, Jim was the CFO with multi-national consumer

products companies such as Diageo and Newell Rubbermaid and with other industry

leading companies in ecommerce, agriculture, mining and explosives. Throughout his

career he has been building his expertise in finance, international business, commercial

operations, and risk managemen

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
M and T Bank pres and CEOs. You should know
POWERD by iHeartMedia. Let's be Jim Hammill. He is the
CEO for Swanson Health Products. Founded in nineteen sixty nine.
It's a company that manufactures and distributes a wide range
of vitamins, supplements and other natural health products. Here's Jim
to talk more about the company, what they do and
over twelve hundred products they offer.

Speaker 2 (00:22):
We manufacture and market wellness regimens to bring everybody to
their best self every day. We have twelve hundred products
of our own that we developed, science backed solutions, and
twelve thousand of partner brand solutions. So when you come
to our shopping experience, Swansonvitamins dot Com, you can get
our stuff and we're going to sell our partner stuff

(00:42):
as well to make sure you leave with a cart
full of everything you need and you don't have to
go five or six different places to find it. You know,
Swansonvitamins dot Com has been around for fifty six years
and we've got some things that can make them feel
good and be well. And I'm very excited to do
that and lead this team that's really passionate about telling
the world about what we have to offer and how
we can make people just feel good every day and

(01:03):
there's nothing better than just waking up and feeling good.

Speaker 1 (01:05):
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