It is our great pleasure to communicate the information JGL recently acquired from an independent research and marketing company, Nicholas Hall, regarding world sales of nasal saline segment for 2012. The data shows Aqua Maris brand taking the second place in word sales, growing more than twice the segment and moving upwards from third place in 2011. Today Aqua Maris brand holds 8% of the world market.
Looking more closely at the competitors, we can see that Aqua Maris brand holds first place in seawater nasal products, being that top first brand uses physiological solution.
Additional data provided by the same company for the first time ever lists Aqua Maris brand and JGL as a producer, in financially three times bigger segment of nasal decongestants, which include nasosympathomimetics and saline nasal decongestants. The global nasal decongestant segment accounted for over USD 1.6 billion in sales in 2012. JGL holds 2.4% of said market segment, taking 8th place and standing proudly shoulder to shoulder with Novartis, J&J and MSD.
Today, Aqua Maris is present in 32 countries on three continents with a product line of over twenty well established natural solution products for ORL problems! The Aqua Maris brand is built on expert pharmaceutical knowledge about recognized benefits of seawater for respiratory health which enables it to be trusted by physicians, pharmacists and users alike. The healing properties of Aqua Maris products are derived from the Adriatic Sea, one of the cleanest seas in Europe. The benefits of seawater for a healthy respiratory tract are widely recognized, and the Adriatic is rich in more than 80 essential minerals and oligoelements.