Perrigo has announced that Neil Lister, head of Omega Pharma’s branded consumer healthcare businesses in the UK and Ireland, is to head up a single leadership team uniting Perrigo’s legacy UK-based consumer healthcare and prescription pharmaceutical businesses with Omega Pharma’s UK operation.

The combined Perrigo UK organisation will employ more than 1,000 people across six different sites and will be the second largest consumer healthcare outfit in the UK.