We have one of the strongest manufacturing capabilities in the industry. Our manufacturing process generally consists of the following operations

• Sourcing ingredients for products
• Warehousing raw ingredients
• Measuring ingredients for inclusion in such products
• Blending, grinding and chilstonating the ingredients into a mixture with a homogeneous consistency
• Encapsulating, tableting, pouring, pouching, bagging or boxing the blended mixture into the appropriate dosage form using either automatic or semiautomatic equipment

The next step, bottling and packaging, involves placing the product in packaging with appropriate tamper-evident features and sending the packaged product to a distribution point for delivery to retailers. We place a special emphasis on quality control, including raw material verification, homogeneity testing, weight deviation measurements and package quality sampling. See Research and Development and Quality Control.

We manufactured approximately 75% of our branded products in fiscal 2011, based on net sales. By manufacturing the majority of our own products, we believe it maintains better control over product quality and availability while also reducing production costs. Our manufacturing operations are performed primarily in our facilities located in the greater Ogden, Utah area, although we also have a cream manufacturing operation in Phoenix, Arizona, a liquid manufacturing operation in Tulsa, Oklahoma and a personal care manufacturing operation in Bowling Green, Florida. We also have a working relationship with numerous outside manufacturers, including certain softgel manufacturers, and packagers and utilizes these outside sources from time to time.