HEALTH

The treads may be wearing thin in the foot care category, where overall sales across U.S. multi-outlets are down by 10% or more, though there may yet be opportunity with those silver foxes making their daily mall walks. Insoles and shoe inserts have long had household penetration in the high teens among the coveted baby boomers demographic.

Even as intimacy health’s reach expands, companies continue to innovate on the perennially trafficked condom category, which is seeing thin options constitute a large and growing segment.

Good Clean Love, has expanded distribution through more than 10,000 doors in 2017.

Ansell Healthcare recently released its Skyn Elite, a condom that Ansell said is 20% thinner than the original Skyn brand.

Camber officials said this launch is the first of several launches the company expects in the coming months from its Long Island, N.Y. facility Ascent Pharmaceuticals.

Boiron USA, the Newtown Square, Pa.-based OTC manufacturer that is gaining traction with retailers and consumers across the country as it broadens product portfolio.

Foundation Consumer Healthcare said it has helped address the myths and misinformation around emergency contraception to ensure that a consumer feels confident and informed when making their purchase.

P&G executives said that the acquisition would grow its geographic scale and footprint in most of the world’s top 15 OTC markets, adding products in such categories as muscle, joint and back pain, as well as cold and headaches that the company previously lacked.