British multinational consumer healthcare company
Haleon plc is a British multinational consumer healthcare company with headquarters in
Weybridge ,
England .
[3] It is one of the largest consumer healthcare businesses in the world, with brands including
Sensodyne
toothpaste ,
Panadol and
Advil
painkillers and
Centrum
vitamins .
[4] The company is a global leader in
over the counter medicines with a 7.3 percent market share.
[5]
Haleon was established on 18 July 2022 as a
corporate spin-off from
GSK .
[6]
Sir
David Lewis is
chairman , with Brian McNamara as CEO.
[7] Haleon is listed on the
London Stock Exchange and is a component of the
FTSE 100 , with a secondary listing on the
New York Stock Exchange . Annual sales amounted to around £10 billion across 120 markets in 2020.
[5]
History
GSK and
Pfizer merged their consumer healthcare businesses in 2019.
[8]
[9] GSK owned just over two thirds of the
joint venture , and Pfizer held the remainder.
[8]
GSK announced plans to spin-off Haleon in 2018, in order to give the "tired drugmaker extra focus and firepower by gearing up and hiving off the consumer division".
[10]
Unilever offered £50 billion for the business in 2022, in a bid which GSK rejected.
[11]
Nestlé examined the possibility of a bid in conjunction with
Reckitt .
[12]
In October 2023, GSK reduced its ownership share in Haleon to just over 7.4%,
[13] and again in January 2024 down to 4.2%.
[14]
The
ChapStick lip care brand was sold to Yellow Wood Partners for £401 million in 2024.
[15]
In March 2024,
Pfizer reduced its stake in Haleon from 32% to 24% by selling 630 million shares in a public offering.
[16]
Operations
Oral health accounted for 28.5 percent of revenue in 2021.
[17]
Brands
A selection of Aquafresh
toothpaste and
toothbrushes produced by Haleon
Brands include:
[18]
This list is complete and up to date as of March 2024 .
Abreva (Docosanol)
Advil (
Ibuprofen )
alli (Orlistat)
Anadin (pain relief)
Aquafresh (oral healthcare)
Astring-o-Sol (oral healthcare)
Be-Total (leader in vitamins market in Italy)
Beechams Cold & Flu and Night/Day Nurse (cold and flu treatments)
Biotene (oral healthcare)
Boost (nutritional)
Breathe Right (respiratory)
Centrum (vitamins and naturals)
Cetebe (vitamins and naturals)
Chlorhexamed (oral healthcare)
Cholinex (analgesics and respiratory tract)
Citrucel (gastrointestinal)
Coldrex (cold and flu treatment)
Commit Lozenge (smoking cessation)
Committed Quitters (nicotine replacement)
Corega (oral healthcare)
Corsodyl (oral healthcare)
Crocin (analgesics and respiratory tract)
Dr. Best (oral healthcare)
Emergen-C
ENO (gastrointestinal)
Eumovate (dermatological)
Excedrin
Fenbid (analgesics and respiratory tract)
Flonase (fluticasone propionate)
Formigran (analgesic/triptan)
Grand-PA (headache/toothache/pain and fever)
Hinds (dermatological)
Junior Horlicks (nutritional)
Imedeen
Iodex (pain relief)
Iodosan (cold and flu treatment)
Lamisil (
terbinafine )
Macleans (oral healthcare)
Maltova (nutritional)
Maxinutrition (nutritional)
Med-Lemon (hot, cold and flu medication)
Medacalm (vitamins and naturals)
Nexium Control (
esomeprazole )
Nicorette (nicotine replacement)
Nicotinell
Night Nurse (cold and flu remedy)
NiQuitin CQ/ Nicoderm CQ/ Nicabate (nicotine replacement)
Odol (oral healthcare)
Odol-med3 (oral healthcare)
Os-cal (oral healthcare)
Otrivin/Otrivine (
xylometazoline )
Panadeine (analgesics and respiratory tract)
Panadol/Panodil (analgesics and respiratory tract)
parodontax (oral healthcare)
Piriton/Piriteze /Pirinase (anti-allergy)
Polident (oral healthcare)
Poligrip Ultra (oral healthcare)
Robitussin (respiratory)
Rutinoscorbin (vitamins and naturals)
Scott's Emulsion (vitamins and naturals)
Sensodyne (oral healthcare)
Shumitect (oral healthcare)
Solpadeine (analgesics and respiratory tract)
Super Poligrip (oral healthcare)
Super Wernet's (oral healthcare)
Synthol (oral healthcare)
Theraflu (Respiratory)
Tums (gastrointestinal)
Viva (vitamins and naturals), origin:
Nepal
Voltaren /Voltarol (anti inflammatory)
Zovirax (dermatological)
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