ICE, for instance, already has a busy over-the-counter business.
Starboard's stipulation that Perrigo focus on its profitable over-the-counter business is a good recipe for turning around the company.
The deal does not include Roche's over-the-counter business in Japan, which analysts say represents less than 1percentt of the company's nonprescription business.
"We believe there is risk to JNJ's McNeil" over-the-counter business in 2011, he wrote, "and see few potential offsets and prefer to stay on the sidelines until there is some clarity".
Brian Taylor, a William Hill betting shop manager, has 30 years experience in the industry and seen fixed odds betting terminals overtake football and horse racing as the most popular over-the-counter business.
AHP has many fine points: solid investments in such biotechnology successes as Immunex, a fast-flowing pipeline in medicines for such lucrative complaints as gastro-intestinal disease, a strong, global presence in reproductive health, and a successful over-the-counter business.
In pharmaceuticals, Bayer bought Roche's over-the-counter business for $2.9 billion and Pfizer could be active on the news that its Alzheimer drug Aricept appears to delay the onset of the disease in some patients.
So profitable was the over-the-counter business formerly that big marketmakers like Herzog, Heine, Geduld; Troster Singer; and Charles Schwab's Mayer & Schweitzer paid retail brokers to send them their "order flow," that is, the right to execute their Nasdaq orders.
She led the drugstore.com over-the-counter business and the beauty.com business unit as well as marketing, merchandising, business analytics, e-commerce operations and product management initiatives for the company.
