Celsius Holdings Inc. said its Celsius calorie-burning beverage is now available at Rite Aid drug stores nationwide. The company said this week that Rite Aid stores are carrying three Celsius flavors: sparkling Orange and the noncarbonated Green Tea Raspberry Acai and Green Tea Peach Mango.
Procter & Gamble Co. this month is rolling out new packaging for its Align probiotic that includes the product’s new money-back guarantee. The consumer products giant also said that next month its P&G BrandSavers coupon book will feature a high-value coupon for money off an Align purchase.
Italian personal care manufacturer Corman has introduced the Organyc brand and new private-label feminine care lines in the United States.
GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare (GSK) has established several key sales, marketing and merchandising objectives for its retail partners in 2010 to capitalize on its Advantage Brands strategy, according to Mike McCormick, director of the initiative.
If, as someone once said, “timing is everything,” the timing of Valentine’s Day this year does not favor chain drug retailers.
Americans still seem relatively unconvinced that there will be dramatic economic improvement this year, and that attitude will continue to impact shoppers’ purchasing habits, according to consumer market researchers.
PharmaSmart International Inc. has teamed up with AstraZeneca Canada to deliver tools and programs to pharmacists, doctors and patients for the improved management of hypertension.
Procter & Gamble Co. has introduced a cough remedy that’s aimed at helping to eliminate one of a cough’s most embarrassing aspects: clearing mucus from the throat. P&G’s new Vicks DayQuil Mucus Control and DayQuil Mucus Control DM are designed to loosen and thin mucus.
AstraZeneca plans to acquire specialty pharmaceutical manufacturer Novexel in a deal worth up to $505 million.
Novartis stands to gain exclusive global rights to heart failure drug relaxin through a deal to acquire U.S. biopharmaceutical firm Corthera Inc. The Swiss pharmaceutical giant said Wednesday that, under the agreement, it plans to acquire all of the outstanding shares of San Mateo, Calif.
Sanofi-aventis has inked an agreement to buy Chattem Inc. for $1.9 billion, a deal that the drug makers say would create the world’s fifth-largest consumer health care company.
Energizer Holdings Inc. director Joe Micheletto has resigned from the household and personal care manufacturer’s board. The company said Thursday that Micheletto is retiring and plans to step down from the board effective January 2.
Merck & Co. has agreed to acquire Avecia Biologics, a contract manufacturing organization specializing in microbial-derived biologics. Financial terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. Under the agreement, made with Avecia Investments Ltd.
Jean-Marc Huet, currently chief financial officer at Bristol-Myers Squibb Co., is joining Unilever as CFO. Unilever said Wednesday that the 40-year-old Huet will take over the company’s CFO post starting January 1.
Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. has appointed Charles Bancroft as acting chief financial officer, effective January 1. The pharmaceutical company said Monday that Jean-Marc Huet, executive vice president and CFO, will leave the firm at the end of this year.
Alberto Culver Co. plans to buy Simple Health & Beauty Ltd., a United Kingdom-based skin care supplier, from private equity fund Duke Street for 240 million pounds ($390 million). The deal is expected to close by the end of this year, Alberto Culver said Monday. The company noted that Simple is
