The fact it's just one! We don't want buy the reformulated product of any brand for the EU market!
Stop whit insane poor business!
What would to do ? we have to come to America to have the serious supplements ?
Sorry but I'm so tired, every time same story! Change the formula for EU end every time same excuses! I love PES but how I said it's not the correct way ��
I have to correct you here because this is simply incorrect.
You said "every time it is the same story" for changing products for Europe.
No, this is not the case. The ONLY reason we have changed products for the European market is because they were non compliant to sell in their current form (Alphamine and Norcodrene both contain yohimbe, the new European version of High Volume has replaced the agmatine sulfate with a higher dose of l-citrulline).
Here are the facts;
- Importing protein powder is very expensive on shipping and weight
- The largest distributor in the whole of Europe has ceased importing protein from America entirely due to such high additional costs and additional stress.
- If we want to make Select available to Europe we HAVE to manufacture it there. Importing it in huge quantities is NOT a viable option. The only Select stock being imported from America is being done so in very, very small quantities.
- Knowing that we have to make it in Europe, we compared the price and nutritional information of MPI and MPC. If we used MPC and removed the PepForm we end up with a product that tastes exactly the same, mixes exactly the same and has almost exactly the same nutritional information. We could have used MPI and PepForm but the price would have been a LOT higher.
- The biggest complaint about Select in Europe was price. We have a lot of customers who at some point have bought it from America and imported it themselves to try and reduce cost.
- Therefore we weighed up both options and decided it made sense to make two small product adjustments which bring the cost way down yet don't change the quality of the product in any way that is tangible to the consumer.
For all of you complaining that it is bad business, please let me emphasise something. Most retailers in the UK are selling less and less protein from American companies because the cost is so high comparative to the bulk supplier. We have had customers in several European countries email us to ask where they can buy it only to find out that retailers near them wouldn't stock it because it cost too much money (American import prices go up when bulk protein supplier costs go down due to more and more aggressive sales).
For us to make it in Europe, we need to have retailers that will buy it otherwise we have to stop selling it in Europe completely.
We were almost at this point. The largest bodybuilding supplement distributor in Europe said they cannot sell a lot of the top brand protein supplements unless the cost came down. They literally told us they couldn't import Select anymore because of this.
Therefore manufacturing in Europe and bringing the cost down is the ONLY way we could continue selling it in Europe in large quantities.
This product is almost exactly the same. .5g difference on nutritional information is literally so small you can get this simply in different batches due to natural variance of protein powder. It is so small that the only people who know the difference will be the people who saw the label and then decided that the product will definitely feel different before they even tried it.
Look, we worked very hard to make Select available for European customers. Some of you may want to pay a lot more money for additional PepForm and .5g less carbohydrates in your tub of snickerdoodle.
However, we literally cannot manufacture the exact same product because so many retailers complained about the cost we couldn't make a product where the price was that high.
Therefore we had to do this just so customers could continue to buy Select in Europe. We could not manufacture the current formula, the company buying it all from us to distribute it around Europe couldn't agree to it. Changing it was the ONLY way we could agree to manufacture enough to supply Europe.
If you want to pay a lot more for the US version, there is one UK company who can import it in very small quantities. You can also buy it from America and import it yourself.
However, like 99% of our customers who complained that Select was very hard to buy in Europe, we have come to a solution that makes it widely available for them.
We are very, very proud of the European batch of Select. We have shipped over the flavouring ourselves to make sure it tastes exactly the same as the previous batches made in America. We are also proud that we can bring customers a product which mixes and tastes exactly the same as the previous batches yet managed to bring the price down a lot by making two tweaks to the product that are so small nobody would even be able to notice if they tried the products side by side.