4 MARKET CONTRACT MANUFACTURING ORGANIZATIONS: A WHOLE WORLD TO DISCOVER CMOs - Contract Manufacturing Organizations – are essential partners of food supplements, sports nutrition or dietetic products etc. Their armed wings, in some sort. It is difficult to estimate the total Otherones are very local, number of CMOs worldwide – specialized in certain do- if not impossible.Some of these sage forms or products. companies do not release public Nevertheless,getting an insight information – they are either absentinto CMOs is diving into the in- from the big annual trade shows dustrialcore of the food sup- that bring together the market plements and dietetic products players (such as Vitafoods, CPHI, supply chain.Understanding its Supply Side West, etc.) or do underlying challenges, strate- not attend b-to-b press events. gies and manufactured products.