New Products

HOUSTON — Minute Maid has launched two new juice drink flavors.

Made with real fruit juice, fruit punch and strawberry passion are the latest delicious additions to Minute Maid's Juices To Go portfolio — the portable, on-the-go package from Minute Maid.

Fruit punch and strawberry passion juice drinks from Minute Maid will be available at convenience, drug and grocery stores nationwide this month.

CINCINNATI — Procter & Gamble on Monday officially announced the introduction of ZzzQuil, a sleep aid addition to its Vicks NyQuil and Vicks DayQuil brands.

“ZzzQuil not only helps reduce the time it takes for a person to fall asleep, but [also] allows them to sleep soundly so they can wake up rested and refreshed,” stated Dave Tomasi, marketing director of North America for Vicks. “It is a sleep-only solution that delivers effective relief to consumers suffering from occasional sleeplessness.”

CHICAGO — Nature's Hand has introduced a single-serve pouch of granola that features all-natural ingredients.

GoNola, available in Maple Pecan Madness and Wild Blueberry Wave, is made with 100% whole grain oats that are toasted and blended with wheat, nuts, seeds and honey.

EMERYVILLE, Calif. — Plum Organics is expanding its business into the organic kids snack category.

Plum Kids contains more than 30 organic options, including such new and innovative pouch products as organic Greek Yogurt Mashups and Morning Mashups for on-the-go breakfast (which carry a suggested retail price of $4.99), Crunch'ola bite-sized snacks (which carry a suggested retail price of $3.99) and Fruit & Veggie Shredz (which carry a suggested retail price of $3.99). All Plum Kids products will be available in more than 6,000 stores nationwide beginning this month.

ALISO VIEJO, Calif. — PrescribeWellness recently partnered with the Pharmacists Society of the State of New York on a new member benefit: free bin management software.

NEW YORK — Coty, in association with Lady Gaga's Haus Labs, is releasing in September the artist's first fragrance, called Lady Gaga Fame.

Lady Gaga Fame is the first-ever black Eau de Parfum that sprays clear and becomes invisible once airborne. The black-to-clear fragrance is an innovation of patent-pending fluid technology, exclusively launched with Lady Gaga Fame.

PHILADELPHIA — GlaxoSmithKline has received regulatory approval from the Food and Drug Administration for a vaccine designed to prevent invasive disease caused by Neisseria meningitidis serogroups C and Y and Haemophilus influenzae type B.

MenHibrix (Meningococcal Groups C and Y and Haemophilus b Tetanus Toxoid conjugate vaccine) is approved for use in children ages six weeks through 18 months. The vaccination schedule is a four-dose series given at two, four, six, and 12 through 15 months of age.

LONDON — Stiefel, a GlaxoSmithKline company, on Monday acquired the eczema remedy Toctino (alitretinoin) from Basilea Pharmaceutica.

“Toctino is an important and growing product that complements the Stiefel portfolio and offers a proven therapy for patients with a significant unmet medical need," stated Simon Jose, Stiefel president. "This acquisition gives us an immediate opportunity to develop and expand the availability of this new and innovative product of value, and reinforces Stiefel and GSK’s commitment to dermatology.”