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24 November 2021
Sweden’s Karo Pharma is acquiring Belgian consumer healthcare company Sylphar International – including its Nutravita, Alpha Foods and Remescar brands – for EUR290 million (USD325 million). Karo’s chief executive officer Christoffer Lorenzen said his company would gain a “cutting-edge team excelling...
23 November 2021
Pierre Fabre Invest – the investment subsidiary of French pharmaceutical and dermocosmetics company Pierre Fabre Group – has acquired a majority stake in the organic natural health products specialist Ladrôme.
19 November 2021
Bayer plans to remain a multi-business organisation with a Consumer Health business, according to chief executive officer Werner Baumann.
19 November 2021
Brazil’s Hypera Pharma has agreed to sell some of the Latin American products it is acquiring from Sanofi to Eurofarma Laboratorios for USD51.6 million.
19 November 2021
CVS Health will close around 900 stores in the US over the next three years and drive “higher engagement with consumers” at the remaining 9,000 by creating new store formats.
19 November 2021
Germany’s Dermapharm is strengthening its Herbal Extracts business by acquiring Sweden’s Cernelle and has reported sales up by 16.1% in the first nine months of 2021.
19 November 2021
New Zealand’s AFT Pharmaceuticals has struck a deal with McPherson’s to “drive growth of its OTC products in Singapore” and reported worldwide sales up by 14% in the six months ended 30 September 2021.
17 November 2021
Infirst has taken the first step towards launching Flarin – its lipid-formulated ibuprofen medicine – in the US.
17 November 2021
Galderma could be set for an Initial Public Offering (IPO), Moberg Pharma has reached an agreement with Allderma for the launch of MOB-015 in Denmark, Norway and Sweden, and Cambridge Nutraceuticals has appointed a distributor for Prime Fifty in Sri Lanka.
16 November 2021
Eleven UK retailers – including Aldi, Asda, Boots, Sainsbury’s, Superdrug, Tesco and Waitrose – are affected by a recall of selected batches of Perrigo’s Cold & Flu Relief Capsules in the UK.