Related Party Transactions

6 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2015

Related Party Transactions

Related Party Transactions

11. Related Party Transactions

Consulting Agreement—The Carlyle Group ("Carlyle")

        NBTY entered into a consulting agreement with Carlyle under which it pays Carlyle a fee for consulting services Carlyle provides to it and its subsidiaries. Under this agreement, subject to certain conditions, NBTY expects to pay an annual consulting fee to Carlyle of $3,000; NBTY reimburses Carlyle for out-of-pocket expenses, and may pay Carlyle additional fees associated with other future transactions. For the three and six months ended March 31, 2015 and 2014, these fees totaled $750 and $1,500, in each of the respective periods, and are recorded in selling, general and administrative expenses. Out of pocket expenditures paid to Carlyle were $54 and $39 for the three months ended March 31, 2015 and 2014, respectively, and $388 and $368 for the six months ended March 31, 2015 and 2014, respectively.

Services from Portfolio Companies of Funds Affiliated with Carlyle

        From time to time, we receive services from other portfolio companies of funds that are affiliated with Carlyle, but these services are not material and such services are provided on an arms-length basis.

Holdings

        Holdings does not have any operations or cash flow other than dividends from NBTY. Holdings has $1,000,000 of Holdco Notes and relies on dividends from NBTY to service the debt. See Note 5 Long-Term Debt for further information.