Vicks is an American brand of over-the-counter medicines owned by American company Procter & amp; Gamble. Vicks produces NyQuil and her sister drug, DayQuil. The Vicks brand also produces Formula 44 cough medicines, cough remedies, Vicks VapoRub, and a host of respiratory treatments. For much of its history, Vicks products are manufactured by the Richardson-Vicks, Inc., based in Greensboro, North Carolina. Richardson-Vicks, Inc., is finally sold to Procter & amp; Gambling in 1985.
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History
In 1890, Lunsford Richardson pharmacist from Selma, North Carolina, took over the drug retail business from his brother-in-law Dr. Joshua Vick, from Greensboro, North Carolina. After Dr. Joshua Vick sees an ad for Vick's Seeds, Lunsford Richardson starts marketing Vick's Family Remedies . The basic ingredients of the range include castor oil, liniment, 'dead shot' vermifuge. The most popular drugs are Croup and Salve Pneumonia, which was first aggravated in 1891, in Greensboro. It was introduced in 1905 under the name Vick's Magic Croup Salve and renamed VapoRub in 1912 at the encouragement of H. Smith Richardson, Lunsford's eldest son; Smith has gained valuable sales and marketing experience while working in New York and Massachusetts after college. Smith Richardson assumed the company president in 1919 after the death of his father.
The flu epidemic of 1918 increased VapoRub's sales from $ 900,000 to $ 2.9 million in just one year. In 1948, Edward Mabry became president of Vicks (the first outside the Richardson family), later known as the Vick Chemical Company . In November 1967, Dale R. Leonard began his career with Vicks Manufacturing Company, Hatboro, Pennsylvania. In 1985, it was sold to Procter & amp; Gamble and Procter & amp; Gamble has since been marketing the product as "The only one stronger than a mother's touch."
Company archives (including personal notes related to the Richardson family) from at least about 1920 or more, until sales in 1985 to Procter & amp; Gamble, housed at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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International presence
In Japan, the products are distributed by Taisho Pharmaceutical, but are manufactured by P & amp; G in India. In Belgium, the products are imported by Procter & amp; Gambling and called "Vicks". In Indonesia, Vicks is produced by Prafa, Subsidiary of Darya-Varia and licensed to Procter & amp; Gamble
In German-speaking countries, the Vicks brand name is changed to Axis to avoid any sexual connotations that may be associated with Vicks or Vick . In Latin America, the brand name is Vick .
List of products
- Puff
- DayQuil
- Scrub Baby
- NyQuil
- VapoDrops
- Sinex
- Vicks Formula 44
- Vicks VapoInhaler
- Vicks VapoRub
- ZzzQuil
References
External links
- Vicks brand website
- Vicks - Canada brand website
- Seek Help for Richardson-Vicks, Inc., Note # 4468, Southern History Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
- Axis (in German)
- The Vick Chemicals Company at The North Carolina Encyclopedia
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