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American healthcare product company

Chattem, Inc. is an American, Chattanooga, Tennessee based, producer and marketer of over the counter healthcare products, toiletries, dietary supplements, topical analgesics, and medicated skin care products. Originally named the Chattanooga Medicine Company, the company’s brand portfolio holds twenty two brands including Allegra, Gold Bond, Flexall, IcyHot, Rolaids, Sun In, Pamprin, Dexatrim, Aspercreme, and Selsun Blue. The company produces two thirds of its products at its Chattanooga production facilities with the remaining produced by third party producers. The company is a subsidiary of the French multinational pharmaceutical company Sanofi. The company’s brands are sold nationally through mass merchandiser, drug and food retailers. In 2005, 70% of the firm's sales were made through its top ten customers, which include Wal Mart, Walgreens, and Kroger. Sales to Wal Mart constituted 36% of Chattem’s total sales in 2005. Chattem supports these sales with a forty five person sales force and broadcast media advertising. Chattem has market penetration in the United States, Europe, Canada, Latin America, and the Caribbean.

Chattem was founded by Zeboim Cartter Patten as the Chattanooga Medicine Company in 1879. The company incorporated in 1909 and has remained in Chattanooga, Tennessee, to this day. During World War II, the Chattanooga Medicine Company turned into a major supplier of K Rations to the US Army, producing 34 million rations from 1942 to 1945, earning 5 "E" Awards for support of war efforts. The firm adopted Chattem as its name and went public in 1969. Chattem’s top and bottom lines grew significantly from 1989 through 1992. The source of this growth was the company’s strategy of purchasing under marketed consumer brands and aggressively marketing those in its portfolio. In 1993, Chattem experienced a 14% decline in sales from the loss of Warner Lambert’s Rolaids business. To fund a one time special dividend in 1994, $75 million in high yield bonds were issued. In January 2013, Chattem acquired the full rights to Rolaids, which had seen its brand wounded under the ownership of Johnson & Johnson's McNeil Consumer Healthcare with a series of product recalls and quality control issues throughout 2010 that ended with most of the Rolaids line discontinued. In September, 2013 Chattem returned Rolaids to the market with new trade dress, though production of Rolaids is not expected to return to Chattanooga. In March 2014, Chattem sold Dexatrim to NVE Pharmaceuticals.

Chattem manufactures many over the counter healthcare products. They are marketed in three categories: pain relief, skin & hair care, and health & wellness.