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  • Higi partnership with IMPOWER physicians raises the bar for interactive health management

    CHICAGO - IMPOWER physicians supporting Medicaid patients in Central Florida are setting a new clinical standard in telehealth thanks to a new partnership with higi, the companies announced Wednesday.  
     

  • Publix adds 3 members to board

    LAKELAND, Fla. — Publix Super Markets added its soon-to-be CEO, current CFO and a retired Deloitte executive to its board of directors when the Southeast’s leading food retailer held its annual stockholders meeting on April 12.
     
    Publix president Todd Jones, CFO David Phillips and retired Deloitte executive Jessica Blume were elected to the board of the $32.4 billion retailer.
     

  • Top shampoo players clean up

    In the regular shampoo category, Unilever and Procter & Gamble hold significant market share. Of the top nine manufacturers in the regular shampoo category, Unilever and its subsidiaries constitute $647 million, P&G $598 million, L’Oréal $334 million and Vogue International $135 million.

  • Electrotherapy devices dominate shelves

    IRI recently began tracking sales of TENS devices as part of its first-aid accessories grouping. Many retailers have created a synergistic merchandising adjacency of TENS devices and external analgesic rubs, which is particularly relevant as Chattem’s Icy Hot brand is a leader across both categories.

  • Rules of the Road: Entering China

    There was once a time when “Made in China” was not part of the U.S. experience, but that changed in the 1980s. No longer was our Chinese connection limited to fortune cookies and take-out.

    During my first trip to Beijing in 1985 as a major Multi-national company representative, I hosted a banquet. A senior government official attended. He arrived on a bicycle.

    Then, things changed; they really changed.

  • Congress passes Ensuring Patient Access Act

    ARLINGTON, Va. – The U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday passed the Ensuring Patient Access and Effective Drug Enforcement Act of 2016 (S. 483) in the same version passed by the Senate, making President Obama’s consideration and signature the final step before enactment.
     
    The legislation, advocated by both retail pharmacy and the pharma industry, would advance collaboration among health and enforcement authorities to achieve drug abuse solutions that maintain patients’ legitimate access to medications.

  • Walgreens Boots Alliance raises quarterly dividend by 6.7%

    DEERFIELD, Ill. - The board of directors of Walgreens Boots Alliance on Tuesday declared a regular quarterly dividend of 36 cents per share, a 6.7% increase over the year ago dividend. 
     
    The dividend is payable June 10 to stockholders of record as of May 18.
     
    Walgreens Boots Alliance and its predecessor company, Walgreens, have paid a dividend in 334 straight quarters (more than 83 years) and have raised the dividend for 40 consecutive years, the company noted.

  • Bumble Bee Seafoods commits to sustainable tuna

    SAN DIEGO -- One of America's leading brands of canned seafood is appealing to the increasing number of consumers who care about where their food comes from.

    Bumble Bee Seafoods has joined with the Parties to the Nauru Agreement (PNA) in the Western Central Pacific Ocean to promote and actively trade sustainably caught skipjack and yellowfin tuna to consumers around the world.

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