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<text id=89TT2153>
<title>
Aug. 21, 1989: Business Notes:Insect Repellents
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
Aug. 21, 1989 How Bush Decides
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
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BUSINESS, Page 47
Business Notes
INSECT REPELLENTS
Bugging Ticks For Profits
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<p> New health fears often bring windfall business, as the
manufacturers of sun block and condoms can attest. This season
the booming product is insect repellent. The near hysteria over
tick-borne Lyme disease, along with a proliferation of other
buzzing pests because of wet weather, has sent the sales of bug
spray and lotion rising at double-digit rates.
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<p> Besides boosting products ranging from S.C. Johnson's
best-selling OFF! to New Hampshire-made Ben's 100 lotion, the
mania has also encouraged new entries. Florida-based Eclipse
Laboratories seized upon the potential profits by introducing
Tick Garde. The bug spray contains DEET, or
diethylmetatoluamide, the same active ingredient found in many
standard repellents, but the product's name appeals directly to
the latest fears. The 6-oz. blue-and-white-colored cans cost
$7.95, almost double the price of other sprays; yet in just a
little over three months consumers have snapped up more than
500,000 of them.
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