consumer health care

Consumer health care accounted for only 18 percent.

Analysts said the move would make Johnson & Johnson the world's largest consumer health care company.

Warner-Lambert said sales at its consumer health care segment, the largest of its three main businesses, rose 8 percent, to $870 million.

When the company has needed earnings in the past, it has relied heavily on its confectionery and consumer health care divisions.

SmithKline, based in Britain, said the acquisition would make it Germany's leading consumer health care company.

GlaxoSmithKline's consumer health care division fared worse, hurt by increased competition from generic brands.

She serves on the executive board of Families USA, a non-profit consumer health care advocacy organization.

Furthermore, addition or augmentation of the lactoperoxidase system has potential applications in controlling bacteria in food and consumer health care products.

Eric Althoff, a spokesman for consumer health care products at Pharmacia, confirmed a report of the shift this week in Adweek.

The German company is established in the consumer health care sector with its Nivea and Eucerin skin lotions in the United States.

Ms. Gluck likened the situation to the 1980's when the big shops gobbled up specialized medical agencies en masse with the growth of consumer health care marketing.

In the 1980s, the company transform from a traditional Chinese herbal manufacturer to modern medicine manufacturer which manufacturing generic drugs, health supplements & consumer health care products.

The bridegroom, 31, is a vice president specializing in consumer health care services and business services investments at Charterhouse Group, a private equity firm in Manhattan.

Pfizer Inc. said yesterday that its consumer health care group had agreed to acquire the Cortizone and Hemorid brands from the Thompson Medical Company.

"We're clearly seeing more gaps in coverage," said Ron Pollack, executive director of Families USA, a consumer health care advocacy group in Washington.

Mr. Critelli was recently elected to the Wyeth Board of Directors, a global leader in pharmaceuticals, consumer health care products, and animal health care products.

Carol S. Jimenez, a consumer health care lawyer in Long Beach, Calif., said the brochures given employees to explain their health benefits often lacked a down-to-earth approach.

Matt Giegerich, 33, president at Quantum Group, the consumer health care communications division of Commonhealth, was named to the additional position of president of Xchange.

"The jury is still out," said Francis Sullivan, a spokesman at the consumer health care division of Wyeth in Madison, N.J., which sells Advil.

Moody's Investors Service, however, affirmed its A3 rating for Bayer, citing the deal's ability to strengthen the company's position in consumer health care, a business with high profit margins.

"Even a small percentage of that market is going to be a significant commercial opportunity," said Mr. Burton, who is vice president for weight-control products in the consumer health care unit.

Ron Pollack, executive director of Families USA, a consumer health care organization based in Washington, says state ombudsman programs are necessary to ensure that people get the help they need.

The move, to be completed by early 2005, would allow Bayer to concentrate on its pharmaceutical and consumer health care brands, as well as agriculture products and some remaining specialty chemicals.

Kenneth Vargha, director of marketing for Pharmacia & Upjohn's consumer health care division, said the timing was a coincidence but that he was confident of winning any hair war.

Gareth Powell, fund manager of Polar Capital Healthcare Opportunities, said: "GlaxoSmithKline is into consumer health care, emerging markets, vaccines, biologies - it has diversified."