Vicks is an American brand of over-the-counter medications owned by the American companies Procter & Gamble and Kaz Incorporated . Vicks manufactures NyQuil and its sister medication, DayQuil as well as other medications in the "Quil" line. Vicks also produces the Formula 44 brand of cough medicines , cough drops , Vicks VapoRub , and a number of inhaled breathing treatments . For much of its history, Vicks products were manufactured by the family-owned company Richardson-Vicks, Inc., based in Greensboro, North Carolina . Richardson-Vicks, Inc., was eventually sold to Procter & Gamble in 1985. Procter & Gamble divested the Vicks VapoSteam U.S. liquid inhalant business and sold it to Helen of Troy in 2015.
13-549: In German-speaking countries (apart from Switzerland), Vicks is known as Wick to avoid brand blundering , as "Vicks" when pronounced in German would sound similar to a vulgar word. In 1890, pharmacist Lunsford Richardson of Selma, North Carolina , took over the retail drug business of his brother-in-law Dr. John Vick, of Greensboro, North Carolina . After Dr. John Vick saw an ad for Vick's Seeds , Lunsford Richardson began marketing Vick’s Family Remedies . The basic ingredients of
26-858: A period in New York and Massachusetts after attending college. Smith Richardson assumed the presidency of the company in 1919 upon his father's death. The flu epidemic of 1918 increased sales of VapoRub from $ 900,000 to $ 2.9 million in just one year. In 1931, the company began selling cough drops. In 1948, Edward Mabry became president of Vicks, then known as the Vick Chemical Company . In 1952, Vicks began selling cough syrup, and in 1959 they introduced Sinex Nasal Spray. The company began selling NyQuil in 1966. The parent company became Richardson-Merrell and then in 1982 divided into prescription drug company Merrell Dow (sold to Dow Chemical Company ) and over-the-counter drug company Richardson-Vicks which retained
39-548: A rounded total of 95 million) worldwide: The following is a list of the countries and territories where German is an official language (also known as the Germanosphere ). It includes countries that have German as (one of) their nationwide official language (s), as well as dependent territories with German as a co-official language. All countries and territories where German has some officiality are located in Europe . German
52-515: Is an official language of the following international institutions: Moselle Franconian Moselle Franconian ( German : Moselfränkisch ; Luxembourgish : Muselfränkesch ) is a West Central German language, part of the Central Franconian languages area , that includes Luxembourgish . Moselle Franconian is spoken in the southern Rhineland and along the course of the Moselle , in
65-575: Is the official language of six countries, all of which lie in central and western Europe. These countries (with the addition of South Tyrol of Italy ) also form the Council for German Orthography and are referred to as the German Sprachraum (German language area). Since 2004, Meetings of German-speaking countries have been held annually with six participants: Germany, Austria, Belgium, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, and Switzerland: While not official at
78-732: The Siegerland of North Rhine-Westphalia , throughout western Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland , Luxembourg , the south of the German-speaking Community of Belgium and in the neighboring French département of Moselle (in Arrondissement of Boulay-Moselle ). The Transylvanian Saxon dialect spoken in the Transylvania region of Romania is derived from this dialect as a result of the emigration of numerous " Transylvanian Saxons " between 1100 and 1300, primarily from areas in which
91-550: The French government has not yet ratified the treaty, and therefore those varieties have no official legal status. Due to the German diaspora , many other countries with sizable populations of (mostly bilingual) German L1 speakers include Argentina , Australia , Bolivia , Canada , Chile , Paraguay , as well as the United States . However, in none of these countries does German or a German variety have any legal status. German
104-609: The Moselle Franconian dialect was then spoken. Another variety of Moselle Franconian, the Hunsrik , is spoken in some rural areas of southern Brazil , brought by 19th century immigrants from the Hunsrück region in modern Germany. The transition between "dialect" and "separate language" is fluid. The Linguasphere Register lists five dialects of Moselle Franconian (code 52-ACB-dc) with codes -dca to -dce: Also considered part of
117-507: The Moselle Franconian language are the variants of Lorraine Franconian , Luxembourgish and Transylvanian Saxon dialect . Some Moselle Franconian dialects have developed into standardized varieties which can be considered separate languages, especially due to the limited intelligibility of some dialects for Standard German speakers: Most speakers of Luxembourgish are multilingual, speaking Standard German and French in addition to Luxembourgish. This article about Germanic languages
130-674: The Vicks brand. The company archives (including related personal records of the Richardson family) from at least about 1920 or so, up to the 1985 sale to Procter & Gamble, are housed at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill . In March 2015, Procter & Gamble sold the Vicks VapoSteam U.S. liquid inhalant business to Helen of Troy Ltd . German-speaking countries Approximate distribution of native German speakers (assuming
143-506: The national level, German is a co-official language in subdivisions of the countries listed below. In each of these regions, German is an official language on the administrative level. There are other political entities (countries as well as dependent entities) which acknowledge other legal statuses for the German language or one of its dialects. While these may cover minority rights, support of certain language facilities (schools, media, etc.), and
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#1732852193315156-585: The promotion of cultural protection/heritage, they do not encompass the establishment of German as an "official" language, i.e., being required in public offices or administrative texts. These countries include: Although in France , the High German varieties of Alsatian and Moselle Franconian are identified as " regional languages " according to the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages of 1998,
169-473: The range included castor oil , liniment , and 'dead shot' vermifuge . The most popular remedy was Croup and Pneumonia Salve , which was first compounded in 1891, in Greensboro. It was introduced in 1905 with the name Vick's Magic Croup Salve and rebranded as VapoRub in 1912 at the instigation of H. Smith Richardson, Lunsford's oldest son; Smith had gained valuable sales and marketing experience while working for
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