Vicks

Vicks is an American brand of <a href="/facts/Over-the-counter_substance/QI3FcgRf">over-the-counter</a> <a href="/facts/Medication/h9mhwWP2">medications</a> owned by the American companies <a href="/facts/Procter_%2526_Gamble/C6ssaBHl">Procter & Gamble</a> and <a href="/facts/Kaz_Incorporated/RlTjNlQv">Kaz Incorporated</a>. Vicks manufactures <a href="/facts/NyQuil/2Qe0AjMx">NyQuil</a> and its sister medication, <a href="/facts/DayQuil/2Qe0AjMx">DayQuil</a> as well as other medications in the "Quil" line. Vicks also produces the Formula 44 brand of <a href="/facts/Cough_medicine/2Qe0AjMx">cough medicines</a>, <a href="/facts/Throat_lozenge/3fR7y45u">cough drops</a>, <a href="/facts/Vicks_VapoRub/caMgygFf">Vicks VapoRub</a>, and a number of <a href="/facts/Vicks_Sinex/74hVTwQz">inhaled breathing treatments</a>. For much of its history, Vicks products were manufactured by the family-owned company Richardson-Vicks, Inc., based in <a href="/facts/Greensboro%2c_North_Carolina/FcWCY6PC">Greensboro, North Carolina</a>. 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.
In <a href="/facts/German-speaking_countries/amtemvdH">German-speaking countries</a> (apart from Switzerland), Vicks is known as Wick to avoid <a href="/facts/Brand_blunder/J1MR32nW">brand blundering</a>, as "Vicks" when pronounced in <a href="/facts/German_language/oWaQIDA8">German</a> would sound similar to a vulgar word.

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