Block Has Powderful Strategy In Analgesics: Stanback Added to Goody's, BC
• By The Tan Sheet
Block Drug has acquired Salisbury, N.C.-based Stanback Company, the maker of Stanback headache powders and Chap-et lip balms. Terms of the deal, completed Jan. 4, were not released. Block already markets the other two major headache powders, Goody's, which it purchased in 1994, and BC, acquired in the 1960s. All three headache powder brands are sold primarily in the southeastern U.S.
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