Bayer Lowers Sales Guidance As It Spies ‘Early Signs’ Of Weaker Cough & Cold Season

A slowdown in China and the US, along with signs of a weaker cough & cold season in the latter, has led Bayer Consumer Health to lower its full-year sales guidance.

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Consumer health market growth will be “moderately lower” for the remainder of the year due to softening economic conditions in key geographies, according to Bayer group CFO Wolfgang Nickl.

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