Harvard Drug Continues Expansion With Watson’s Rugby OTC Business
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
Watson Pharmaceuticals sells OTC business Rugby Laboratories to Harvard Drug Group, which operates Major Pharmaceuticals manufacturing. Watson divests a business that accounted for a small part of the private label OTC market, but keeps its pending ANDAs for guaifenesin expectorants and its smoking-cessation generics.
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