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Get a Detailed Picture of How the Vitamins and Dietary Supplements Market is Performing in the UK.


DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c37814) has announced the addition of "Vitamins and Dietary Supplements Noun 1. dietary supplement - something added to complete a diet or to make up for a dietary deficiency
diet - a prescribed selection of foods

vitamin pill - a pill containing one or more vitamins; taken as a dietary supplement
 in the UK" to their offering.

This Vitamins and Dietary Supplements in the UK 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.

Value growth in the OTC OTC

See: Over-the-counter.


OTC

See over-the-counter market (OTC).
 healthcare market slowed considerably in 2004, with overall sales up by almost 3% in current terms, compared to a compound annual growth rate (CAGR CAGR

See: Compound Annual Growth Rate
) of nearly 4% for the review period. Growth was constrained con·strain  
tr.v. con·strained, con·strain·ing, con·strains
1. To compel by physical, moral, or circumstantial force; oblige: felt constrained to object. See Synonyms at force.

2.
 by the poor performance of analgesics Analgesics Definition

Analgesics are medicines that relieve pain.
Purpose

Analgesics are those drugs that mainly provide pain relief.
 and cough, cold and allergy allergy, hypersensitive reaction of the body tissues of certain individuals to certain substances that, in similar amounts and circumstances, are innocuous to other persons. Allergens, or allergy-causing substances, can be airborne substances (e.g.  remedies, both which were subjected to the continued EDLP EDLP Every Day Low Prices  (every day low prices) policies of leading multiple grocers. Following the abolition of retail price maintenance (RPM (1) (Revolutions Per Minute) With electric and electronics devices, RPM measures the rotational speed of the motor's spindle. Floppy disks rotate at 300 RPM, while hard disks rotate from 3,000 to 15,000 RPM. ) in 2001, grocery multiples continued to reduce prices on a wide range of products.

Product coverage includes 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 includes 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

Key topics covered:

--Executive Summary

--Operating Environment

--OTC Healthcare Sales

--Vitamins and Dietary Supplements Sales

--Other OTC

--Definitions

Companies Mentioned Include:

--GlaxoSmithKline Plc

--Crookes Healthcare Ltd

--Reckitt Benckiser Plc

--Pfizer Consumer Healthcare Ltd

--Seven Seas Ltd

--SSL International Plc

--Wyeth Consumer Healthcare Inc

--Boots Co Plc, The

--Roche Products Ltd

--Ernest Jackson Ltd

--Bayer Plc

--Novartis Pharmaceuticals UK Ltd

--Holland & Barrett Retail Ltd

--Johnson & Johnson MSD (MicroSoft Diagnostics) A utility that accompanied Windows 3.1 and DOS 6 that reported on the internal configuration of the PC. A variety of information on disks, video, drivers, IRQs and port addresses was provided.  

--Masterfoods UK Ltd

--Johnson & Johnson Ltd

--DDD Group, The

--Pharmacia & Upjohn Cambridge Ltd

--GlaxoSmithKline UK Ltd

--Schering Healthcare Ltd

--Chemist Brokers Ltd

--Chefaro Proprietaries Ltd

--Mentholatum Co Ltd, The

--Beiersdorf UK Ltd

--Schering-Plough Ltd

--Omega Pharma SA

--Boehringer Ingelheim Ltd

--Healthspan Group Ltd

--Goldshield Healthcare Direct Ltd

--Procter & Gamble Ltd

--Tosara Products UK Ltd

--UCB Pharma

--Ransom Consumer Healthcare

--Stiefel Laboratories (UK) Ltd

--Vitabiotics Ltd

--Thornton & Ross Ltd

--Healthy Direct Ltd

--Lane Health Products Ltd, GR

--Lichtwer Pharma UK Ltd

--De Witt & Co Ltd, E C

--Rhone-Poulenc Rorer

--Sankyo Pharma UK Ltd

--Colgate-Palmolive UK Ltd

--Merck Sharp & Dohme Ltd

--L'Oreal (UK) Ltd

--Merck Consumer Healthcare Ltd

--Lofthouse of Fleetwood Ltd

--Pharmadass Ltd

--Solgar Vitamins & Herbs Ltd

--Combe International Ltd

--Whitehall Laboratories Ltd

--Mars UK Ltd

--Adams Confectionery confectionery, delicacies or sweetmeats that have sugar as a principal ingredient, combined with coloring matter and flavoring and often with fruit or nuts. In the United States it is usually called candy, in Great Britain, sweets or boiled sweets.  

--Peter Black Healthcare Ltd

--English Grains Ltd

--Health Perception Co Ltd

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