New Products

As lifetime earnings for pharmaceuticals decrease, commercialization expenses increase and payers tighten their belts on reimbursement, life science companies will be faced with shrinking margins over the next few years.

SAN FRANCISCO — Popchips, a popped snack company, earlier this week announced that it's giving consumers "more to love," as it infuses its snacks with bolder flavors and 15% more chips for the same price.

The company also announced new Tortilla Popchips, which are made with real masa and come in zesty nacho cheese, ranch and chili limon flavors. Popchips stepped up its cheddar offering, which is now cheddar & sour cream. Its popular sour cream & onion got a flavor punch as well.

THE WOODLANDS, Texas and SUMMIT, N.J. — McKesson Specialty Health has announced the integration of its distribution services with General Medical Services’ Physician Office Drug Inventory System, an alliance that creates the first end-to-end integrated inventory and order-to-reimbursement verification solution designed specifically for ophthalmologists.

FAIRFIELD, Calif — Ale or Lager? Stout? Lambic? Pilsner? These are the questions candy makers at Jelly Belly Candy Co. asked themselves before creating what they say is the world’s first beer-flavored jelly bean.

In the end, the company opted to pay homage to its German ancestry with a Hefeweizen-inspired ale flavor, and Draft Beer Jelly Belly jelly beans took shape. The new flavor is now available in bulk and a single-flavor 3.5-oz Grab & Go bag.

PLANO, TX — Lay's potato chips, a brand from PepsiCo's Frito-Lay division, earlier this week announced that its Lay's Air Pops crisps would be entering more markets across the United States. In celebration of the expanded distribution, the company is introducing new Air Pops salt & vinegar crisps.

ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — Softlips has introduced its new Softlips Cube, a dome-shaped balm that delivers a 5-in-1 formula to hydrate, replenish, smooth, protect with SPF 15 and add a subtle sheen to lips.

Packaged in a glass-like cube, the Softlips Cube was designed to be a fun and original shape that women can easily access in a purse.  

NEW YORK — This year the 18th Annual Webby Awards, an international award honoring excellence on the Internet, featured applications for health and wellness mobile health apps, including CVS/pharmacy, Walgreens and GlaxoSmithKline.

PURCHASE, N.Y. — Mountain Dew, a brand from PepsiCo, on Thursday announced that for the first time, Mtn Dew Baja Blast — which is only available as a fountain beverage at Taco Bell — will make the leap to store shelves for a limited time beginning May 5.