DENVER, May 25, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- MusclePharm
Corporation, a Nevada corporation
("MusclePharm" or the "Company") (OTCBB: MSLP), an expanding U.S.
nutritional supplement company, is pleased to announce that
Jeremy Deluca, the former
Bodybuilding.com President, will be joining MusclePharm's Executive
team as Co-President and Chief Marketing Officer.
Together with his brother Ryan, Deluca helped create and grow
the Bodybuilding.com brand to incredible heights. Today it is the
largest online sports nutrition company in the world, boasting
annual sales of more than $250
million, providing Deluca with one of the most impressive
track records in the industry.
"Jeremy will be an invaluable asset and we are very excited to
have him on the MusclePharm team," MusclePharm CEO Brad Pyatt stated. "In my opinion, Jeremy was
the biggest free agent this industry has ever seen, and it's a
testament to our company that he signed with MusclePharm. Adding
Jeremy will be a huge part of our overall growth strategy as we
continue to expand in hopes of dominating the industry."
While at Bodybuilding.com, Deluca helped the site become the
most visited bodybuilding and fitness online destination in the
world with an innovative marketing and promotions mindset. The
company now sells more than 12,000 products from nearly 600 brands
worldwide.
MusclePharm has quickly become one of the top brands on the
Bodybuilding.com website, which draws more than 300,000 unique
daily visitors, taking place on the site's top 10 best-selling
supplement brands list. Two of the company's award-winning and
popular products, Assault and Shred Matrix, were among the
website's top-selling products.
"I am thrilled to be joining the MusclePharm team. I have known
this management team since day one and recognize the tremendous
amount of work that they continue to exert for long-term success,"
Deluca commented. "Bringing proven success from this industry to an
already aggressive and focused management team, I am confident that
MusclePharm will achieve even greater success in both the long and
short term future."
ABOUT MUSCLEPHARM CORPORATION
Headquartered in Denver,
Colorado, MusclePharm is a healthy lifestyle company that
develops and manufactures a full line of National Science
Foundation approved nutritional supplements that are 100% free of
banned substances. Based on years of research, MusclePharm products
are created through an advanced six-stage research protocol
involving the expertise of top nutritional scientists and field
tested by more than one hundred elite professional athletes from
various professional sports leagues including the National Football
League, Mixed Martial Arts, and Major League Baseball. The
Company's products address all categories of an active lifestyle,
including muscle building, weight loss, and maintaining general
fitness through a daily nutritional supplement regimen.
MusclePharm is sold in over 120 countries and available in
over 5,000 U.S. retail outlets, including GNC and Vitamin Shoppe.
MusclePharm products are also sold in over 100 online stores,
including bodybuilding.com, Amazon.com and Vitacost.com. For more
information, please visit www.musclepharm.com.
FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
The information contained herein includes forward-looking
statements. These statements relate to future events or to our
future financial performance, and involve known and unknown risks,
uncertainties and other factors that may cause our actual results,
levels of activity, performance, or achievements to be materially
different from any future results, levels of activity, performance
or achievements expressed or implied by these forward-looking
statements. You should not place undue reliance on forward-looking
statements since they involve known and unknown risks,
uncertainties and other factors which are, in some cases, beyond
our control and which could, and likely will, materially affect
actual results, levels of activity, performance or achievements.
Any forward-looking statement reflects our current views with
respect to future events and is subject to these and other risks,
uncertainties and assumptions relating to our operations, results
of operations, growth strategy and liquidity. We assume no
obligation to publicly update or revise these forward-looking
statements for any reason, or to update the reasons actual results
could differ materially from those anticipated in these
forward-looking statements, even if new information becomes
available in the future.
Investor Contact:
Cory Gregory
President
303-396-6100
http://www.musclepharm.com
SOURCE MusclePharm Corporation