Mike Myers, owner of NuCare, a private label manufacturer of protein powders, sports nutrition supplements and wellness and weight loss products, was the featured speaker at the Kingfisher Rotary Club last week.

The club opened meetings for the first time since March 2020, when the membership decided to cancel meetings after the COVID-19 pandemic hit Oklahoma.

Myers is also the Rotary president-elect for the new fiscal year, which begins July 1.

He is a graduate of Baylor University and began his career working in the marketing department for Clinical Biopathology Laboratory, which his family owned and operated.

He said he developed a vision for improving lives through better nutrition and in 1996 developed NuCare with a very small staff in Kingfisher.

He said business was difficult and slow until he got the idea of marketing his company as a private label manufacturer for retailers around the nation and world.

“Once we hit upon that idea, our sales have grown exponentially over the years since,” he said.

Myers said he now employs 45 area workers at his facility located at 2110 South Main St.

He said his advantage in the private label supplement industry was low minimums and fast turnaround time.

“We’re small enough that we have no problems with being price competitive and still get out orders within a short window of time,” he said.

Myers also said the NuCare art department gives his company an advantage for being directly involved in the design of dozens of custom labels for product containers.

He said his staff works with customers through help with storefront displays, internet sales and multilevel marketing supplement sales.

Myers and his wife Julie have four daughters and the family is very involved in the Lomega school system.

He was introduced by current Rotary President Neal Brown.