1.   Eight months ago, a vitamin company began endorsing him, picking up his expenses.

2.   He also broke up price-fixing cartels, notably between international vitamin companies.

3.   In the past, information from some businesses, like vitamin companies and weight-loss programs, was not allowed in the basket.

4.   Next week, business will take him to Kansas, to hunt pheasant with executives of a vitamin company.

5.   National Geographic and the Shaklee vitamin company, which sponsored the Solo From the Pole expedition, are maintaining Web sites devoted to the effort.

6.   So far, his stay at the vitamin company is indefinite, but as a temporary worker, the situation could change at any time.

7.   The vitamin company we contacted said a vitamin is a vitamin.

8.   Two U.S. vitamin companies are hoping to cash in on the nutritional value of vegetables by introducing what could be the next rage in diet supplements, vegetable pills.