Stock Report: Medifast Inc. (MED) Report Updated: Nov 16, 2009  |  Print This Page

Medifast, Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in the production, distribution, and sale of weight management and disease management products, and other consumable health and diet products in the United States. The company’s product lines include weight and disease management, meal replacement, and vitamins. It also operates weight control centers that offer supervised model and an advertised brand, which encourages walk-ins and referrals from other Medifast business channels; and customized patient counseling programs, and the Inbody composition analysis. The company markets its products under Medifast brand, which include shakes, women’s health shakes, creamy soups, chicken noodle soups, beef vegetable stew, oatmeal, pudding, scrambled eggs, hot cocoa, cappuccino, chai latte, iced teas, fruit drinks, soy crisps, and crackers. It sells its products through various channels of distribution, including Web, call center, independent health advisors, medical professionals, weight loss clinics, and direct consumer marketing supported via the phone and the Web; Take Shape for Life, a physician led network of independent health coaches; and weight control centers. Medifast, Inc. was founded in 1980 and is headquartered in Owings Mills, Maryland.