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Bayer To Hold On To Consumer Health While It Deals With More Pressing Issues

 
• By Tom Gallen

With Bayer "badly broken in four places," now is not the right time to consider offloading its Consumer Health business, according to group CEO Bill Anderson. Bayer must focus its full attention for the next few years on addressing challenges which include mounting debt and costly litigation before a change to the company's structure can be considered.

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• Source: Bayer

Breaking up is hard to do, for Bayer at least. As it watches its biggest OTC rivals go solo, Bayer has decided to hold onto its Consumer Health business.

A six-month long strategic review led CEO Bill Anderson to conclude that offloading Consumer Health right now won’t solve the...

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