Consumers’ Inflation Fatigue, Recession Fears May Put Health, Beauty Product Price Increases On Hold

Church & Dwight, Perrigo executives' comments at investor conferences could signal OTC drug, supplement and personal care product firms are moving from gauging pandemic impact on supply chains and consumer spending to anticipating shifts in consumer preferences and cost increases caused by inflation with recession appearing more likely every day.

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Consumer health and personal care product firms could opt against “going back to the well” of price increases and instead cut package sizes, as Church & Dwight Co. Inc. is doing, in response to the impact on consumers from inflation and a potential economic recession.

For OTC drug private label and store brand giant Perrigo Company PLC, on the other hand, even though it...

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