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- Warning!!: Perfect Storm Forecast for the OTC Topical Patch Category [CHTT, OSE, JNJ, ENDP]
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- The "Obama Flu" and the Zicam Hysteria of 2009 [MTXX]
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Selsun Blue Moisturizing Dandruff Shampoo, 1% Selenium Sulfide, 11oz Bottle
Selsen Blue Moisturizing Dandruff Shampoo, 1% Selenium Sulfide, 11oz Bottle- $6.84*
- $0.62/oz* [1.9x Equate/oz or +$3.20 Unit]
- $0.62/oz* [1.9x Head & Shoulders IT/oz or +$2.12 Unit]
- 1% Selenium Sulfide in suspension
- Muddy, deep sea green, single-phase formula
- Poor lather, pleasent odor
- Claim: "Conditions and moisturizes your hair"
- Claim: "Moisturizes and soothes"
- Claim: "Healthier Hair, Healthier Scalp"
- No dandruff claim made on package
- No 1-800 number on package
- No website address on package
- Sample expiry 4/13, or 22 months
- Adequate, but unappealing, formulation
- H&S Intensive Treatment elegant formulation at lower cost
* = Walmart pricing, 6/18/2010
Insights
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After Tylenol Recall McNeil Lectures Retailers on Importance of OTC Mega-Brands on Shelf [7/21/10]

"Despite recall of Tylenol brand McNeil insists that such 'beacon brands' are critical to shopping the OTC aisle"
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House Bill Calls for Cosmetic Ingredient Monograph After Chicago Tribune Probe, Chicago Tribune [7/21/10]

"Attempt to extend government oversight to cosmetics may decrease formula diversity"
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Rep. Towns Introduces Bill to Grant HHS ex parte Power to Recall Drug Products, Text of Bill [7/1/10]

"Federal bill would allow HHS to recall drug products if serious threat to health"
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Carmex Enters Skin Care Category, Drug Store News [7/20/10]

"Carmex applies brand equity to skin with Intensive Healing product rolled out at Walgreens"
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"We then call the one object, cause; the other, effect. We suppose that there is some connexion between them; some power in the one, by which it infallibly produces the other, and operates with the greatest certainty and strongest necessity... experience only teaches us, how one event constantly follows another; without instructing us in the secret connexion, which binds them together, and renders them inseparable."
OTC Product News recognized the danger early on: that the collapse of J&J's quality systems would endanger its brand heritage and corporate integrity. Now yet another plant is under inspection by the FDA this time a Merck/J&J joint venture facility managed by J&J that makes Pepcid, Imodium, and Mylanta, all OTC gastrointestinal products [
In a hard-to-find, unsigned statement McNeil, not "J&J", issued a Kremlinesque announcement of job lay-offs of 75% of standing headcount and an extended shut-down at its Fort Washington plant lasting into 2011 following its plant contamination and cavalier management. The fact that this statement was not issued as a corporate press release on its websites confirms more "skulking on the Schuylkill".
Boehringer Ingelheim locks up a promising OTC nasal spray technology to prevent the common cold --- just what Zicam [Matrixx] needed. Unfortunately the product roll out appears to be entirely outside the US.








