$8.5 Billion Natural HBC Market Resists Recession

Natural health and beauty care product sales through all U.S. retail channels will reach $8.5 billion in 2011, according to Natural and Organic Personal Care Products in the U.S., a just-released Packaged Facts report. The total increase since 2005 has been $3.7 billion, for a compound annual growth rate of 10 percent over the six-year period.