Haleon plc is a British multinational consumer healthcare company with headquarters in Weybridge, England.[3] It is one of the largest consumer healthcare businesses in the world, with brands including Sensodyne toothpaste, Panadol and Advil painkillers, and Centrum vitamins.[4] The company was projected to be a global leader in over the counter medicines with a 7.3 per cent market share in 2022.[5]
Haleon was established on 18 July 2022 as a corporate spin-off from GSK.[6]
GSK and Pfizer merged their consumer healthcare businesses in 2019.[7][8] GSK owned just over two thirds of the joint venture, and Pfizer owned the remainder.[7] Annual sales were around £10 billion across 120 markets in 2020.[5] GSK then announced plans to spin off Haleon in 2022 to give the "tired drugmaker extra focus and firepower by gearing up and hiving off the consumer division," according to Reuters.[9] Unilever offered £50 billion for the business in 2022, which GSK rejected.[10] Nestlé examined the possibility of a bid in conjunction with Reckitt.[11] In October 2023, GSK reduced its ownership in Haleon to 7.4%,[12] and in January 2024 it further reduced its ownership to 4.2%.[13]
In August 2023, Haleon sold its Lamisil antifungal brand to Karo Healthcare AB for £235 million,[14][15] and in February 2024, Haleon sold its ChapStick lip care brand to Yellow Wood Partners for £401 million.[16]
In March 2024, Pfizer reduced its share in Haleon from 32% to 24% per cent by selling 630 million shares in a public offering.[17]
Further sales followed: in April 2024, Haleon announced that it would close its Sensodyne toothpaste factory in Maidenhead,[18] moving that manufacturing to Slovakia, and it outsourced mouthwash manufacturing to an unrelated company[19] and, in September 2024, the company completed the sale of its non-US nicotine replacement therapy business to Dr. Reddy's Laboratories in a deal worth £458 million.[20]
In March 2025, Pfizer sold its entire stake in Haleon for £2.5 billion ($3.24 billion), exiting the consumer healthcare business it helped create by its 2019 joint venture with GSK.[21][22][23]
Oral health accounted for 28.5 percent of revenue in 2021.[24]
Sir Dave Lewis is chairman, with Brian McNamara as chief executive.[25]
Brands include:[26] • Abreva (Docosanol)
• Advil (Ibuprofen)
• alli (Orlistat)
• Anadin (pain relief)
• Aquafresh (oral healthcare)
• Astring-o-Sol (oral healthcare)
• Be-Total (leader in vitamins market in Italy)
• Beechams Cold & Flu and Night/Day Nurse (cold and flu treatments)
• Biotene (oral healthcare)
• Boost (nutritional)
• Breathe Right (respiratory)
• Calpol (fever medicine)
• Caltrate (bone and joint supplement)
• Centrum (vitamins and naturals)
• Cetebe (vitamins and naturals)
• Chlorhexamed (oral healthcare)
• Cholinex (analgesics and respiratory tract)
• Citrucel (gastrointestinal)
• Clusivol (multivitamins)
• * Clusivol Plus (mutivitamins)
• * Clusivol OB (multivitamins for pregnant and lactating women)
• * Children's Clusivol (multivitamins for children)
• Coldrex (cold and flu treatment)
• Commit Lozenge (smoking cessation)
• Committed Quitters (nicotine replacement)
• Corega (oral healthcare)
• Corsodyl (oral healthcare)
• Crocin (analgesics and respiratory tract)
• Dr. Best (oral healthcare)
• Emergen-C
• ENO (gastrointestinal)
• Eroxon
• Eumovate (dermatological)
• Excedrin
• Fenistil
• Fenbid (analgesics and respiratory tract)
• Fibrosine (constipation relief)
• Flonase (fluticasone propionate)
• Foodles (noodles), origin: India
• Formigran (analgesic/triptan)
• Grand-PA (headache/toothache/pain and fever)
• Hinds (dermatological)
• Imedeen
• Iodex (pain relief)
• Iodosan (cold and flu treatment)
• Junior Horlicks (nutritional)
• Loviscol (cough suppressant)
• Macleans (oral healthcare)
• Maltova (nutritional)
• Maxinutrition (nutritional)
• Med-Lemon (hot, cold and flu medication)
• Medacalm (vitamins and naturals)
• Nexium Control (esomeprazole)
• Nicorette (nicotine replacement)
• Night Nurse (cold and flu remedy)
• NiQuitin CQ/ Nicoderm CQ/ Nicabate (nicotine replacement)
• Odol (oral healthcare)
• Odol-med3 (oral healthcare)
• Os-cal (vitamins and minerals)
• Otrivin/Otrivine (xylometazoline)
• Panadeine (analgesics and respiratory tract)
• Panadol/Panodil (analgesics and respiratory tract)
• Parodontax (oral healthcare)
• Piriton/Piriteze/Pirinase (anti-allergy)
• Polident (oral healthcare)
• Poligrip Ultra (oral healthcare)
• Robikids (kids’ cough medicine)
• Robitussin (respiratory medicine)
• Rutinoscorbin (vitamins and naturals)
• Scott's (vitamins and naturals)
• Sensodyne (oral healthcare)
• Shumitect (oral healthcare)
• Simeco (gastrointestinal)
• Sinecod (cough medicine)
• Solpadeine (analgesics and respiratory tract)
• Stresstabs (stress reliever)
• Super Poligrip (oral healthcare)
• Super Wernet's (oral healthcare)
• Synthol (oral healthcare)
• Theraflu (Respiratory)
• TriHEMIC (anemia medicine)
• Tums (gastrointestinal)
• Viva (vitamins and naturals), origin: Nepal
• Voltaren/Voltarol (anti inflammatory)
• Zovirax (dermatological)
• ChapStick (sold to Yellow Wood Partners in 2024)
• Lamisil (terbinafine) (sold to Karo Healthcare in 2023)
• Nicotinell (sold to Dr Reddy's Laboratories in 2024)
