New Chapter Founders' Vision Limited, Voice Stifled Under Parent Firm P&G
This article was originally published in The Rose Sheet
Executive Summary
New Chapter founders Paul and Barbi Schulick leave and sever ties with parent firm Procter & Gamble six years after their company providing herbal products to US health food and vitamin stores was acquired by the global consumer health, personal and household care products marketer. Nature's Bounty adds Don Kerrigan, formerly in charge of US OTC drug marketing for Bayer and Pfizer, as its president for North America.
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