The multinational consumer goods company, which is based in the U.K., agreed to pay $1.4 billlion for Schiff Nutrition International Inc., besting a previous offer from Bayer AG. Fast-growing Schiff reported net sales of $259 million for the one-year ...

Ltd., Zhejiang Medicine Company Ltd., and Zhejiang NHU Co. Ltd., among others. In addition to these vitamin manufactures, leading pharmaceutical companies that forayed into the vitamins business include Pfizer Inc., Schiff Nutrition International Inc ...