Editing Vicks (section)

{{Short description|American brand of over-the-counter medications}}
{{infobox brand
|name = Vicks
|logo = VicksLogo.png
|type = [[Over-the-counter substance|Over-the-counter]] [[medicines]]
|currentowner = {{ubl|[[Procter & Gamble]]|[[Kaz Incorporated]]|(VapoSteam & VapoPads)}}
|origin = United States
|introduced = {{start date and age|1898}}
|discontinued = 
|related = Wick
|markets = 
|previousowners = Richardson-Vicks, Inc.
|ambassadors = 
|tagline = "Breathe Life In"
|website = {{url|vicks.com}}
|misc={{ubl|'''Former names''':|Lunsford Richardson Wholesale Drug Company (1898–1905)|Vick's Family Remedies (1905–1911)|Vick Chemical Company (1911–1982)}}}}
'''Vicks''' is an American brand of [[Over-the-counter substance|over-the-counter]] [[medication]]s owned by the American companies [[Procter & Gamble]] and [[Kaz Incorporated]]. Vicks manufactures [[NyQuil]] and its sister medication, [[DayQuil]] as well as other medications in the "Quil" line. Vicks also produces the Formula 44 brand of [[cough medicine]]s, [[Throat lozenge|cough drops]], [[Vicks VapoRub]], and a number of [[Vicks Sinex|inhaled breathing treatments]]. For much of its history, Vicks products were manufactured by the family-owned company Richardson-Vicks, Inc., based in [[Greensboro, North Carolina]]. 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.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/procter-gamble-sells-vicks-vapostream-u-s-business-to-helen-of-troy-1427842613|title=Procter & Gamble Sells Vicks VapoStream U.S. Business to Helen of Troy|last=Beckerman|first=Josh|website=WSJ|language=en-US|access-date=2019-11-20|archive-date=2020-03-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200306005753/https://www.wsj.com/articles/procter-gamble-sells-vicks-vapostream-u-s-business-to-helen-of-troy-1427842613|url-status=live}}</ref>

In [[German-speaking countries]] (apart from Switzerland), Vicks is known as ''Wick'' to avoid [[brand blunder]]ing, as "Vicks" when pronounced in [[German language|German]] would sound similar to a vulgar word.<ref>{{cite web |title=WICK Vaporub Erkältungssalbe: gegen Erkältung |url=http://www.wick.de/produkte/gegen-schnupfen/vapo-rub-erkaeltungssalbe-was-hilft-gegen-schnupfen/ |publisher=Wick.de |date=2016-01-02 |language=de |access-date=2017-06-17 |archive-date=2014-02-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140210002812/http://www.wick.de/produkte/gegen-schnupfen/vapo-rub-erkaeltungssalbe-was-hilft-gegen-schnupfen/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>