Perrigo Announces FDA Approvals For The Store Brand OTC Equivalents To Nicorette® White Ice Mint® Gum

DUBLIN, Dec. 20, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Perrigo Company plc (NYSE: PRGO; TASE) today announced it has received approvals from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for Abbreviated New Drug Applications referencing GlaxoSmithKline's Nicorette® White Ice Mint® Gum (nicotine polacrilex gum 2 mg and 4 mg). These products will be packaged and marketed as store brands or retailer 'own label' brands and provide consumers with high-quality, value alternatives to Nicorette® White Ice Mint® Gum.

Nicorette® White Ice Mint® Gum is used to help patients quit smoking by reducing nicotine withdrawal symptoms. Annual sales for the 12 months ending November 2016 were $79 million.  

Perrigo's Executive Vice President & President, Consumer Healthcare Americas, Jeff Needham commented that, "This product approval reflects Perrigo's commitment to providing customers and consumers with high quality value alternatives to important OTC products. Perrigo's innovative OTC product offerings are what drive value for our customers as they keep pace with changing consumer preferences." 

About Perrigo

Perrigo Company plc, a top five global over-the-counter ("OTC") consumer goods and pharmaceutical company, offers patients and customers high quality products at affordable prices. From its beginnings in 1887 as a packager of generic home remedies, Perrigo, headquartered in Ireland, has grown to become the world's largest manufacturer of OTC products and supplier of infant formulas for the store brand market. The Company is also a leading provider of generic extended topical prescription products and receives royalties from Multiple Sclerosis drug Tysabri®. Perrigo provides Quality Affordable Healthcare Products® across a wide variety of product categories and geographies primarily in North America, Europe, and Australia, as well as other markets, including Israel, China and Latin America. Visit Perrigo online at (http://www.perrigo.com).

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