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Get To Know: Fast-Growing, Stigma-Busting, ‘Omnichannel Thinking’ Karo Healthcare

 
• By David Ridley

Karo Healthcare has big plans for its expanding range of global OTC brands, the firm reveals in this exclusive Q&A. 

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Stockholm-based Karo Healthcare says it wants to be a “global commercial force in consumer healthcare.”

Having acquired in recent years various well-known consumer health brands – E45 from Reckitt, Lamisil from Haleon and most recently Proctosedyl from Bayer – Karo is well on its way to achieving this goal, quadrupling its sales in the last five years

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