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Exhibit
99.1
Investor
Contact:
Vitacost.com
Kathleen
Reed
Director
of Investor Relations
561.982.4180
ICR,
Inc.
John
Mills
Senior
Managing Director
310.954.1105
Vitacost.com,
Inc. Announces Appointment of Interim Chief Financial Officer
BOCA
RATON, Fla., October 19, 2010 – Vitacost.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: VITC), a leading
online retailer and direct marketer of health and wellness products, announced
that Stephen E. Markert, Jr. was appointed as the Company’s interim Chief
Financial Officer effective immediately. Mr. Markert replaces former
Chief Financial and Accounting Officer Richard P. Smith who is no longer with
the company. Mr. Markert, 59, has more than 35 years of financial
experience, primarily in public companies and was most recently with Tatum, LLC,
a national financial services firm providing interim Chief Financial Officer
services. Mr. Markert was a Partner at Tatum for over three years,
and served as interim Chief Financial Officer at Jet Plastica, a $150 million
private equity owned manufacturing and distribution company, and at Foamex
International, a $1.2 billion public manufacturing company, among other
clients. Prior to that, from 1995 to 2005, Mr. Markert served as Vice
President Finance, Chief Financial Officer at C&D Technologies, Inc., a $500
million global manufacturer and distributor where he directed a multi-national
finance and IT staff. Mr. Markert is a CPA and holds a B.S. in
Accounting and an M.B.A. in Finance from LaSalle University.
About
Vitacost.com, Inc.
Vitacost.com,
Inc. (NASDAQ: VITC) is a leading online retailer and direct marketer of health
and wellness products, including dietary supplements such as vitamins, minerals,
herbs or other botanicals, amino acids and metabolites, as well as cosmetics,
organic body and personal care products, sports nutrition and health foods.
Vitacost.com, Inc. sells these products directly to consumers through its
website, www.vitacost.com, as
well as through its catalogs. Vitacost.com, Inc. strives to offer its customers
the broadest product selection of healthy living products, while providing
superior customer service and timely and accurate
delivery.