01 Mar 1996
| by ROBERT GRAY
PHARMACEUTICALS: Restrictive legislation makes it difficult to promote
new drugs, regardless...PHARMACEUTICALS: Restrictive legislation makes it difficult to promote
new drugs, regardless ...
of the public
PRICE FIXING: Small pharmacies come under threat by cut price OTC
medicines being offered ...
Gray reports on the
international ethical and OTC markets
One can draw an interesting parallel ...
21 Aug 1998
| by SOPHIE BARKER
Regester Larkin has won a three-way pitch to handle PR for the
Community Pharmacy Action Group, as it continues its campaign to prevent
the threatened abolition of resale price maintenance, a policy that
guarantees a minimum price for over-the-counter medicine.
09 Feb 1996
| by LEXIE GODDARD
Charles Barker PR has been drafted in to advise UK drug manufacturers,
wholesalers and pharmacists...Charles Barker PR has been drafted in to advise UK drug manufacturers,
wholesalers ...
vitamin prices last October.
Group member and drug industry body the Proprietary Association ...
information to the OFT showing how much
turnover is represented by OTC medicines, she said ...
21 Jun 1996
| by NOEL HALL
.
On the face of it, the resale price maintenance (RPM) agreement on non-
prescription drugs is difficult ...
. The NPA
argues that the pharmacist s role is essential for the safe sale of OTC
or GSL medicines ...
?
Drugs such as Zovirax cold sore cream and Zantac 75 have given
pharmacists a real opportunity ...
13 Jun 1997
| by ROBERT GRAY
Drug wholesaler and retailer Unichem has appointed Cameron Choat to
handle its trade and consumer...Drug wholesaler and retailer Unichem has appointed Cameron Choat to
handle its trade and consumer PR. The move ends Unichem s 18-month
relationship with Leedex, which worked on trade PR and on Unichem s
weekly publication for pharmacists. The budget for the Unichem account
is believed ...
25 May 2001
Organisation: Office of Fair Trading
Issue: End of RPM system on over-the-counter drug sales
The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) and supermarket chains have been
celebrating as the High ...
years of artificial price protection of
over-the-counter (OTC) branded pharmaceutical products, which ...
14 Feb 1997
| by LEE KIMBER
Only Boots owned more high street pharmacies than Lloyds Chemist
when German drug wholesaler Gehe...Only Boots owned more high street pharmacies than Lloyds Chemist
when German drug wholesaler Gehe and its English competitor Unichem
joined battle to add it to their own chains in January 1996 ...
European
drugs supply operations.
In the four quiet months from March during which the MMC ...
06 Mar 1998
| by HILARY FREEMAN
requested that some prescription-only drugs - such as
antibiotics for cystitis and eye infections ...
-the-counter (OTC) medicines to be available on the NHS to
people who are entitled to free prescriptions ...
of an industry undergoing
revolution.
The growth of the OTC sector has been well-documented. What ...
26 Jan 1996
| by LEXIE GODDARD
Pharmaceutical manufacturers are planning a PR offensive to protect
resale price maintenance (RPM) on over-the-counter medicines following
Asda s campaign to slash vitamin prices last year.
The Proprietary Association of Great Britain, industry body to 95 per
cent of OTC manufacturers, is expected ...
09 Feb 1996
| by JOHN-PIERRE JOYCE
as it launches a pounds 584 million counter
bid for Lloyds Chemists.
Gehe - Europe s largest drug ...
the company s hostile pounds 400 million takeover of UK
drugs distributor AAH last year.
Acquiring Lloyds would boost Gehe s existing 30 per cent share of the
British drug retailing and wholesaling ...