Sentences with phrase «consumer healthcare business»

On Tuesday, announcing the Novartis joint venture buyout, she said the proposed deal would «allow GSK shareholders to capture the full value of one of the world's leading consumer healthcare businesses.»

Most of the brands came from its acquisition of Wyeth, having sold its old consumer healthcare business to Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ) in 2006.

Remember yesterday, when it was reported that GlaxoSmithKline had outbid Reckitt Benckiser for Pfizer's consumer healthcare business?

Just days ago, GSK seemed set to buy Pfizer's consumer healthcare business.

LONDON, March 23 - GlaxoSmithKline has withdrawn from the race to buy Pfizer's consumer healthcare business, the British company said on Friday, endangering an auction the U.S. drugmaker hoped would bring in as much as $ 20 billion.

LONDON, March 23 - GlaxoSmithKline has quit the race to buy Pfizer's consumer healthcare business, endangering an auction the U.S. drugmaker hoped would bring in as much as $ 20 billion.

It will issue guidance for 2018 to reflect the sale of the consumer healthcare business with it publishes first - quarter financial results on May 15, it said.

More recently, it's struggled to strike a deal for its consumer healthcare business, with major potential bidders like GlaxoSmithKline pulling out and Procter & Gamble deciding to buy German pharmaceutical company Merck KGaA's consumer unit instead.

On a side note, the company is mulling a potential sale of its consumer healthcare business, which some believe could fetch as much as $ 20 billion.

NEW YORK / LONDON GlaxoSmithKline has pulled ahead in a race to buy Pfizer's consumer healthcare business, which the U.S. drugmaker believes could be worth as much as $ 20 billion, after its main rival Reckitt Benckiser quit the auction.

Pfizer also currently has a consumer healthcare business, which markets over-the-counter products including Advil, Preparation H, and Robitussin, but is considering selling or spinning off the business unit.

Its consumer healthcare business is generating anemic growth.

It has been reported that a handful of companies including Novartis, Bayer AG, and Proctor & Gamble have expressed interest in buying Merck's consumer healthcare business.

But this time, it's trying to make a big decision about whether to split itself up by divesting of its consumer healthcare business, including over-the-counter (OTC) products such as Advil and Centrum vitamins.

Or maybe his replacement would make the same decisions he'll end up making about the consumer healthcare business.

Of course, it depends on how much Pfizer could get for the consumer healthcare business.

Advising Boehringer Ingelheim on the swap of its consumer healthcare business with Sanofi's animal health business.