Haleon

Haleon plc is a British multinational consumer healthcare company with headquarters in Weybridge, England. It is one of the largest consumer healthcare businesses in the world, with brands including Sensodyne toothpaste, Panadol and Advil painkillers and Centrum vitamins. The company is a global leader in over the counter medicines with a 7.3 percent market share.

Haleon was established on 18 July 2022 as a corporate spin-off from GSK.

Sir David Lewis is chairman, with Brian McNamara as CEO. Haleon is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a component of the FTSE 100, with a secondary listing on the New York Stock Exchange. Annual sales amounted to around £10 billion across 120 markets in 2020.

History
GSK and Pfizer merged their consumer healthcare businesses in 2019. GSK owned just over two thirds of the joint venture, and Pfizer held the remainder.

GSK announced plans to spin-off Haleon in 2018, in order to give the "tired drugmaker extra focus and firepower by gearing up and hiving off the consumer division".

Unilever offered £50 billion for the business in 2022, in a bid which GSK rejected. Nestlé examined the possibility of a bid in conjunction with Reckitt.

In October 2023, GSK reduced its ownership share in Haleon to just over 7.4%, and again in January 2024 down to 4.2%.

The Lamisil antifungal brand was sold to Karo Healthcare AB for £235 million in August 2023; the transaction was completed on November 2023.

The ChapStick lip care brand was sold to Yellow Wood Partners for £401 million in 2024.

In March 2024, Pfizer reduced its stake in Haleon from 32% to 24% by selling 630 million shares in a public offering.

In April 2024 Haleon announced that it planned to close its British factory in Maidenhead. Toothpaste manufacturing would be relocated to Slovakia, with mouthwash production outsourced to a third-party.

In June 2024, the company announced the sale of its non-US nicotine brands to Dr. Reddy's Laboratories in a deal worth £500 million.

Operations
Oral health accounted for 28.5 percent of revenue in 2021.

Current
Brands include: • Abreva (Docosanol)

• Advil (Ibuprofen)

• alli (Orlistat)

• Anadin (pain relief)

• Aquafresh (oral healthcare)

• Astring-o-Sol (oral healthcare)

• Be-Total (leader in vitamins market in Italy)

• Beechams Cold & Flu and Night/Day Nurse (cold and flu treatments)

• Biotene (oral healthcare)

• Boost (nutritional)

• Breathe Right (respiratory)

• Centrum (vitamins and naturals)

• Cetebe (vitamins and naturals)

• Chlorhexamed (oral healthcare)

• Cholinex (analgesics and respiratory tract)

• Citrucel (gastrointestinal)

• Coldrex (cold and flu treatment)

• Commit Lozenge (smoking cessation)

• Committed Quitters (nicotine replacement)

• Corega (oral healthcare)

• Corsodyl (oral healthcare)

• Crocin (analgesics and respiratory tract)

• Dr. Best (oral healthcare)

• Emergen-C

• ENO (gastrointestinal)

• Eumovate (dermatological)

• Excedrin

• Fenistil

• Fenbid (analgesics and respiratory tract)

• Flonase (fluticasone propionate)

• Foodles (noodles), origin: India

• Formigran (analgesic/triptan)

• Grand-PA (headache/toothache/pain and fever)

• Hinds (dermatological)

• Junior Horlicks (nutritional)

• Imedeen

• Iodex (pain relief)

• Iodosan (cold and flu treatment)

• Macleans (oral healthcare)

• Maltova (nutritional)

• Maxinutrition (nutritional)

• Med-Lemon (hot, cold and flu medication)

• Medacalm (vitamins and naturals)

• Nexium Control (esomeprazole)

• Nicorette (nicotine replacement)

• Nicotinell

• Night Nurse (cold and flu remedy)

• NiQuitin CQ/ Nicoderm CQ/ Nicabate (nicotine replacement)

• Odol (oral healthcare)

• Odol-med3 (oral healthcare)

• Os-cal (oral healthcare)

• Otrivin/Otrivine (xylometazoline)

• Panadeine (analgesics and respiratory tract)

• Panadol/Panodil (analgesics and respiratory tract)

• parodontax (oral healthcare)

• Piriton/Piriteze/Pirinase (anti-allergy)

• Polident (oral healthcare)

• Poligrip Ultra (oral healthcare)

• Robitussin (respiratory)

• Rutinoscorbin (vitamins and naturals)

• Scott's Emulsion (vitamins and naturals)

• Sensodyne (oral healthcare)

• Shumitect (oral healthcare)

• Solpadeine (analgesics and respiratory tract)

• Super Poligrip (oral healthcare)

• Super Wernet's (oral healthcare)

• Synthol (oral healthcare)

• Theraflu (Respiratory)

• Tums (gastrointestinal)

• Viva (vitamins and naturals), origin: Nepal

• Voltaren/Voltarol (anti inflammatory)

• Zovirax (dermatological)

Divested
• Lamisil (terbinafine) (sold to Karo Healthcare in 2023)

• ChapStick (sold to Yellow Wood Partners in 2024)