Identify the Leading Companies and Brands Operating in the Smoking Cessation Aids Market in the UK.

DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c37802) has announced the addition of Smoking Cessation Aids in the UK to their offering.

Our Smoking Cessation Aids 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.

Product coverage: NRT gum, NRT patches, NRT inhalators, other

Data coverage: market sizes (historic and forecasts), company shares, brand shares

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Topics Covered

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

2. OPERATING ENVIRONMENT

--2.1 OTC Registration and Classification

--2.2 Vitamins & 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

--2.9 Generics

--2.10 Consumer Expenditure on Health Goods and Medical Services

--2.11 Life Expectancy

3. OTC HEALTHCARE SALES

--3.1 Market Performance

--3.2 Switches

--3.3 Key Trends and Developments

--3.4 Competitive Environment

--3.5 Leading Company Profiles - Bayer Plc

--3.6 Leading Company Profiles - Boots Healthcare International

--3.7 Leading Company Profiles - GlaxoSmithKline Plc

--3.8 Leading Company Profiles - Johnson & Johnson MSD Ltd

--3.9 Leading Company Profiles - Novartis Pharmaceuticals UK Ltd

--3.10 Leading Company Profiles - Pfizer Consumer Healthcare Ltd

--3.11 Leading Company Profiles - Reckitt Benckiser Plc

--3.12 Leading Company Profiles - Roche Products Ltd

--3.13 Leading Company Profiles - Seven Seas Ltd

--3.14 Leading Company Profiles - SSL International Plc

--3.15 Leading Company Profiles - Wyeth Consumer Healthcare

--3.16 Emerging and Niche Companies

--3.17 Retail Distribution

--3.18 Retailer Activity and Private Label Trends

--3.19 Forecast Market Performance

4. SMOKING CESSATION AIDS SALES

--4.1 Number of Smokers

--4.2 Sector Performance

--4.3 New Product Developments

5. OTHER OTC

6. DEFINITIONS

Summary

Multiple grocers fight for OTC share

The major distribution trend in the OTC healthcare market during the 1999-2004 period was growth in sales through grocery outlets, which has brought chemists and pharmacies in line to face more direct and fierce competition. The increasing trend towards supermarkets is largely a result of the abolition of RPM, which meant that chains such Asda, Tesco and Sainsbury's slashed the prices of branded OTC medicines, such as Nurofen, Lemsip and Rennie.

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 - 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 - Peter Black Healthcare Ltd - English Grains Ltd - Health Perception Co Ltd

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