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Article: Use birds that don't fly in the ointment. (People).(use of emu oil )
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- Business North Carolina
- Article date:
- April 1, 2003
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Richard Guy wasn't quite buying what Andy Martin and Johnny Johnson were selling in March 2001. "That sounds like snake oil," he remembers saying. Actually, it was emu oil. Martin and Johnson, owners of Johnson Emu Inc. in Eva, Ala., had hoped to sell Guy the byproduct their plant produced while processing the bird's meat.
Guy and his sister Betsy Homer had started Nutrition & Fitness Inc., which does business as NFI Dietary Supplements, in the garage of their parents' Fayetteville home in 1988 with a credit card and an $8,000 loan from their parents. He had gotten the idea to sell fat burners and other weight-loss supplements by watching people sweat to sculpt ...