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Wild Oats Markets Inc. announced the retirement of COO Jim Lee. Current Senior VP of Operations Bruce Bowman, formerly COO of Ben & Jerry’s Homemade, will take over Lee’s position, and current Regional Director of Operations Andy Weis has been promoted to VP of store operations.

B. William Lee has received the International Aloe Science Council Hall of Fame Award for his efforts in aloe vera nutrition and education. The award was presented by Aloecorp.

Don Holly has joined Green Mountain Coffee Inc. as its new corporate quality manager.

Yoko Toyokawa has joined the marketing division at Brain Garden, a division of Whole Living Inc.

Patricia S. Schroder has been named VP of the natural health and nutrition division at Archer Daniels Midland Co.

The president of Stonyfield Farm Inc., Gary Hirshberg, has been elected to the board of directors at King Arthur Flour.

Emery Ellinger III has been appointed COO of Nutraceutical Clinical Laboratories.

Nutrition 21 has hired Sandra Kessler as GM of the consumer products division.

William Clark has been named the VP of product development at Mannatech Corp.

William C. Egan has been appointed to the board of directors at Gumtech Intl. Inc.

The Larex Inc. board of directors has named R. Bo Nickoloff as its new CEO.

Cetalon Corp. Inc. has hired Neil Watanabe as COO.

Charles E. Fioretti has resigned from the board of directors at Mannatech Inc.

Adam J. Morgan has been appointed VP of the Corporate Alliance for Integrative Medicine Inc.

Twinlab Corp. has appointed Joseph

Sinicropi as COO.

Darryl Green has joined the board of directors at Health and Nutrition Systems Inc.