Consumer >> CEO Interviews >> February 25, 2002
Harvey Kamil is the President and Chief Financial Officer of NBTY, Inc., the nation's largest manufacturer and marketer of nutritional supplements. After joining NBTY in 1982 as Executive Vice President and CFO, Mr. Kamil remained an integral part of the management team that successfully steered NBTY through 25 years of global economic, regulatory and market challenges. Today NBTY finds itself ahead of competitors, with sales exceeding $2.5 billion. Profile
TWST: Would you begin with a brief overview of the history and evolutionof NBTY?
Mr. Kamil: NBTY was founded by Arthur Rudolph some 32, 33 years ago.
Arthur was originally in the drug