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BOHEMIA, N.Y., Sept. 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- NBTY, Inc. (NYSE:NTY) (http://www.nbty.com/), a leading global manufacturer and marketer of nutritional supplements, today announced that its Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Scott Rudolph, has adopted a pre-arranged stock trading plan to sell a portion of his company stock over time as part of his individual long-term strategy for asset diversification and liquidity. The stock trading plan was adopted in accordance with Rule 10b5-1 of the U.S. Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and NBTY's policies with respect to insider sales. Rule 10b5-1 allows corporate officers and directors to adopt written, pre-arranged stock trading plans when they do not have material, non-public information. Using these plans, insiders can gradually diversify their investment portfolios, can spread stock trades out over an extended period of time to reduce any market impact and can avoid concerns about whether they had material, non-public information when they sold their stock. Under his Rule 10b5-1 plan, which was effective as of August 31, 2006, Mr. Rudolph may sell up to 2.4 million shares of NBTY stock over a period of approximately two and a half years. The plan allows up to 300,000 shares of NBTY stock to be sold per month, starting from February 2007 until January 2009, subject to certain price restrictions. If the target prices are achieved and all stock eligible for sale under the plan is sold, Mr. Rudolph will still own approximately 8.5% of NBTY's current outstanding stock. ABOUT NBTY: NBTY is a leading vertically integrated manufacturer, marketer and distributor of a broad line of high-quality, value-priced nutritional supplements in the United States and throughout the world. Under a number of NBTY and third party brands, the Company offers over 22,000 products, including products marketed by the Company's Nature's Bounty(R), Vitamin World(R), Puritan's Pride(R), Holland & Barrett(R), Rexall(R), Sundown(R), MET-Rx(R), WORLDWIDE Sport Nutrition(R), American Health(R), GNC (UK)(R), DeTuinen(R), LeNaturiste(TM), SISU(R) and Solgar(R) brands. Contact: Harvey Kamil Carl Hymans NBTY, Inc. G.S. Schwartz & Co. President & Chief Financial Officer 212-725-4500 631-200-2020 DATASOURCE: NBTY CONTACT: Harvey Kamil, President & Chief Financial Officer of NBTY, +1-631-200-2020; or Carl Hymans of G.S. Schwartz & Co., +1-212-725-4500, , for NBTY Web site: http://www.nbty.com/

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