An Analysis of the Irish Vitamins and Dietary Supplements Market, Including a Look at the Leading Companies and Brands.DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c34478) has announced the addition of Vitamins And Dietary Supplements in Ireland to their offering. Our Vitamins and Dietary Supplements in Ireland report offers a comprehensive guide to the size and shape of the market at a national level. It provides the latest retail sales data (1999-2004), allowing you to identify the sectors driving growth. It identifies the leading companies, the leading brands and offers strategic analysis of key factors influencing the market - be they new product developments, distribution or pricing issues. Forecasts to 2009 illustrate how the market is set to change. Product coverage: vitamins, dietary supplements, tonics and bottled nutritive nutritive /nu·tri·tive/ (noo´tri-tiv) nutritional. nu·tri·tive adj. 1. Of or relating to nutrition. 2. Nutritious; nourishing. drinks, child-specific vitamins and dietary supplements Data coverage: market sizes (historic and forecasts), company shares, brand shares Why buy this report? --Get a detailed picture of the vitamins and dietary supplements industry --Pinpoint growth sectors and trends and identify factors driving change --Understand the competitive environment, the market's major players and leading brands --Use five-year forecasts to assess how the market is predicted to develop With a network of over 600 analysts worldwide, we have a unique capability to develop reliable information resources (1) The data and information assets of an organization, department or unit. See data administration. (2) Another name for the Information Systems (IS) or Information Technology (IT) department. See IT. to help drive informed strategic planning Strategic planning is an organization's process of defining its strategy, or direction, and making decisions on allocating its resources to pursue this strategy, including its capital and people. . Topics Covered 1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 2. OPERATING ENVIRONMENT In computing, an operating environment is the environment in which users run programs, whether in a command line interface, such as in MS-DOS or the Unix shell, or in a graphical user interface, such as in the Macintosh operating system. --2.1 OTC OTC See: Over-the-counter. OTC See over-the-counter market (OTC). Healthcare Registration and Classification --2.2 Vitamins and Dietary Supplements Registration and Classification --2.3 Advertising --2.4 Packaging and Labelling --2.5 Distribution --2.6 De-listing or De-reimbursement --2.7 Traditional Remedies --2.8 Homeopathy homeopathy (hōmēŏp`əthē), system of medicine whose fundamental principle is the law of similars—that like is cured by like. --2.9 Generics --2.10 Consumer Expenditure on Health Goods and Medical Services --2.11 Life Expectancy Life Expectancy 1. The age until which a person is expected to live. 2. The remaining number of years an individual is expected to live, based on IRS issued life expectancy tables. 3. OTC HEALTHCARE SALES --3.1 Market Performance --3.2 Switches --3.3 Competitive Environment --3.4 Leading Company Profiles - Crookes Healthcare Ltd --3.5 Leading Company Profiles - GlaxoSmithKline (Ireland) --3.6 Leading Company Profiles - Pfizer Ireland Pharmaceuticals --3.7 Leading Company Profiles - Wyeth Consumer Healthcare --3.8 Retail Distribution --3.9 Retailer Activity and Private Label Trends --3.10 Forecast Market Performance 4. VITAMINS AND DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS SALES --4.1 Sector Performance --4.2 Vitamins Performance --4.3 Dietary Supplements Performance 5. OTHER OTC 6. DEFINITIONS Summary Milder winter cools down OTC healthcare performance in 2004 OTC healthcare in Ireland witnessed another good year in 2004, with sales increasing in current value terms by 9%. Current value growth in 2004 was a bit slower than in 2003 due to a milder winter, which meant there were fewer outbreaks of colds and flu. As a result the largest sectors, analgesics Analgesics Definition Analgesics are medicines that relieve pain. Purpose Analgesics are those drugs that mainly provide pain relief. and cough, cold and allergy (hay fever hay fever, seasonal allergy causing inflammation of the mucous membranes of the nose and eyes. It is characterized by itching about the eyes and nose, sneezing, a profuse watery nasal discharge, and tearing of the eyes. ) remedies, recorded current value growth which was slower than that recorded in 2003 by one and two percentage points respectively. Vitamins and dietary supplements was also affected by this, but to a lesser extent, as other factors such as increasing health awareness boosted its development. Companies Mentioned Include: GlaxoSmithKline (Ireland) Ltd - Pfizer Ireland Pharmaceuticals - Wyeth Consumer Healthcare Ireland Ltd - Crookes Healthcare Ltd - Reckitt Benckiser Ireland Ltd - Seven Seas Ireland Ltd - Roche Consumer Healthcare - SSL International Plc - Novartis Ireland Ltd - Beeline bee·line n. A direct, straight course. intr.v. bee·lined, bee·lin·ing, bee·lines To move swiftly in a direct, straight course. Healthcare Ltd - Bayer Ltd - Procter & Gamble (Manufacturing) Ireland Ltd - Unigreg Ltd - Stiefel Laboratories (Ireland) Ltd - Janssen-Cilag Ltd - DDD DDD Direct Distance Dialing DDD Digital/Digital/Digital (audio CD format, recording/mixing/mastering) DDD Degenerative Disc Disease DDD Domain Driven Design DDD Data Display Debugger (GNU Project) Group, The - Sona Healthcare Ltd - Johnson & Johnson (Ireland) Ltd - Windsor Healthcare Ltd - Smith & Nephew Ltd - Monmouth Pharmaceuticals Ltd - Aventis Pharma Ltd - Lane Health Products Ltd, GR - Adams Confectionery - Nutricare Ltd - Quest Vitamins Ltd - Tosara Products Ltd - Vitabiotics Ltd - Cadbury Ireland Ltd - Ovelle Ltd - Quinoderm Ltd - Pinewood pine·wood n. 1. The wood of the pine tree. 2. A forest of pines. Often used in the plural. Healthcare Group - English Grains Ltd - Mentholatum Co Ltd, The - Masterfoods Ireland Ltd - Chefaro Ireland Ltd - Lifeplan Products Ltd - Antigen Pharmaceuticals Ltd - Ransom Consumer Healthcare - Hoechst Ireland Ltd - Fleming Medical Ltd - Schering-Plough (Ireland) Co - Clonmel Healthcare Ltd - 3M Ireland Ltd - Prestige Brands International Inc - Aventis Ireland Ltd - Ricesteele Healthcare Ltd - Esi Optima Healthcare - Rowa Pharmaceuticals - Lab Ltd - Abbott Laboratories (Ireland) Ltd - Pharmacia Ireland Ltd - Peter Black Healthcare Ltd For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c34478 |
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