Natural Markets Food Group, the parent company of the Mrs. Green’s and Planet Organic chains, is opening two new stores mid-January in Illinois and Alberta. The company closed two stores last month in New York State.

According to Supermarket News, store openings and closures are part of the chain’s ongoing modernization and rebranding efforts. No further closures are currently expected. Rebranding includes a new logo for Mrs. Green’s stores as well as more emphasis on locally sourced produce and products.

Life Choice Ltd, a natural medicine company, has added two new members to its management team.

Dr. Emmanuel Mbobda, is Life Choice’s new Chief Marketing and Sales Officer, and Shawn Zemla, is the company’s new BC Sales Manager, excluding Vancouver Island.

Dr. Mbobda has worked in marketing and business development for over 12 years. His most recent employment position was with AOR Inc., as their Export Manager. Also, Dr. Mbobda has a degree in Pharmacy, and a major in Pharmacology and Pharmacognosy from the University of Perugia Italy.

Shawn Zemla’s has an education in holistic nutrition extending to whole food nutrition and food science. Shawn has several years of sales and marketing experience. His most recent position was with AOR Inc. as their territory sales manager.

Thrive Market, an online natural and organic foods retailer, is creating its own private label products. The plan is to sell these products exclusively on Thrive’s website and not to retailers such as Whole Foods.

So far, Thrive Market has launched their own brand of organic tomato sauce and coconut oil. However, Nick Green, co-CEO of Thrive, told Fortune that the online food retailer plans to release 100 private label products in the first half of 2016.

Thrive Market wants to offer natural and organic products at prices comparable to conventional non-organic retailers. The company would price the items to cover company expenses and profits as well as shipping costs. Currently, Thrive Market makes money by offering its customers subscriptions.

“It’s Whole Foods-type products at Costco-like prices,” Green told Fortune.

New research from the University of Cambridge in England shows that Vitamin D may help repair damage to myelin—the protective sheath surrounding nerve fibres—in people with multiple sclerosis (MS).

The study, published recently in the Journal of Cell Biology, provides considerable evidence that Vitamin D could eventually become a treatment option for patients with MS.

Research from the MS Society Cambridge Centre for Myelin Repairs shows that existing protein, known as the RXR receptor, connects to the Vitamin D receptor, which—as previously proven—helps to repair myelin.

Additional research is necessary to determine if lab results are effective in MS patients during clinical trials.

Roughly, 100,000 people living in Canada have multiple sclerosis. The Vitamin D Society, a Canadian non-profit group organization, encourages Canadians to protect their health by having their vitamin D levels tested on an annual basis.

Nud Fud Inc. is expanding nationally and has recently announced a partnership with iLevel Management Inc. to support that expansion.

Nud Fud Inc, a manufacturer of hand-made healthy, innovative, organic, raw, and gluten-free snacks, has recruited iLevel Management to help facilitate the company’s next level of growth. iLevel Management works together with companies who have innovative products to execute long-term plans for success.

Health experts boast that the ever-important Vitamin E extends human life as well as helps to ensure healthy reproduction. However, a report from Royal River Natural Foods, finds that U.S. citizens of all ages are low in the essential vitamin.

Royal River Natural Foods, a locally-owned independent natural health store in Freeport, Maine, also reports in their study that symptoms of depression in college students subsided after taking omega-3 fish oil capsules for three weeks.

Furthermore, their research found that postmenopausal women after hormone replacement therapy were less likely to develop brain cancer when consuming Vitamin D on a continual basis. The women in the study were compared to women who had stopped or had never taken Vitamin D.

Pinnacle Foods Inc. is buying Boulder Brands. The two companies recently reached an agreement, which expands Pinnacle’s position in the natural and organic retail channel. Additionally, Pinnacle expects that this acquisition will bring forth new growth in refrigerated foods for the company.

“We expect a seamless transition and look forward to accelerating our growth across an impressive collection of health and wellness brands as part of Pinnacle Foods,” said Dean Hollis, Chairman of Boulder Brands.

Whole Foods Market, according to ComputerWorld, is partnering with technology company, Infor, to build a new cloud-based retail management solution to speed up operations, improve efficiency, as well as provide a new experience for customers.

The new management system will be for Whole Foods’ global network of stores. Other retailers will be able to take advantage of this management solution once it is delivered.

Jason Buechel, executive vice president and chief information officer of Whole Foods Market, told ComputerWorld: “The new retail platform we will co-create with Infor will be unlike anything currently on the market, better leveraging major technology advances to deliver much more value at lower cost.”

ComputerWorld reports that Whole Foods needed to find smarter methods of working as a result of new organic grocery store chains, increased acceptance of online shopping as a method to buy groceries, as well as near-saturation in existing markets.

The agriculture sector is growing rapidly, and California-based Sunkist is responding by expanding its production of organic citrus fruits.

IRI Worldwide Data reports that retail sales of organic citrus have increased by 14 per cent—that’s three times faster than conventional citrus.

“Consumers are broadening their food choices, and we’re seeing that in the growth of organics,” said Joan Wickham, manager of advertising and public relations for Sunkist.