Weight Watchers

By  Jonah Comstock 01:04 pm February 25, 2013
Triple Tree Associate Joe Long Minnesota investment banking firm Triple Tree has released a report about the rise of consumerism in the healthcare industry. The company says the industry is becoming less like a traditional healthcare system and more like a retail environment, with B2B2C, or business-to-business-to-consumer, business models becoming the dominant format. "Viewed through the lens...
By  Brian Dolan 12:00 am December 31, 2009
While our year-end report is a solid snapshot of the state of the industry at the end of 2009, we noticed that a good number of our most popular news posts from the past year did not find their place in the overall narrative. As expected the iPhone was a dominant theme for our most popular posts of 2009, which were picked based on which ones accumulated the greatest number of views during the...
By  Brian Dolan 08:29 pm August 7, 2009
David Kirchhoff, Weight Watchers' president and CEO announced yesterday that Weight Watchers will soon submit an iPhone application to Apple in an effort to provide "convenience and information on demand to further [members'] weight-loss success and to further modernize the Weight Watchers' brand." Weight Watchers is one of the most recognizable brands in the consumer health industry, but do they...
By  Brian Dolan 05:28 am August 7, 2009
Weight Watchers for iPhone: "We are in the final stages of development of a new iPhone application which we will be submitting to Apple for final approval later this month," David Kirchhoff, president and CEO of Weight Watchers announced during the company's investors' call this week. "Our Weight Watchers Online and Monthly Pass subscribers will have free access to a full, robust suite of...