Health & Wellness Industry Earnings Roundup: Herbalife, Vitamin Shoppe, Church & Dwight
This article was originally published in The Rose Sheet
Executive Summary
The firm reports nearly 10% growth to $272m in sales of vitamin, oral, skin and hair care, pregnancy tests, condoms, sexual lubricants and other consumer health and personal care products in its fiscal 2016 second-quarter.
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