Article: Nexium will get brilliant shade: Prilosec purple; Color strategy moving from heartburn drug to its successor.(AstraZeneca uses color to market drug)(Brief Article)

AstraZeneca will continue pushing purple in its bid for green.

The drug marketer is expected to shift its marketing theme for prescription heartburn pill Prilosec, which revolves around the color purple, to its successor drug Nexium.

Prilosec has been a blockbuster, in part because of consumer campaigns pegging it as "the purple pill." Purple-theme promotions have been splashed on prime-time TV, the Web site purplepill.com, even the floorboards in New York's Port Authority Bus Terminal.

ON TO NEXIUM

But as patent protection for the brand expires, AstraZeneca wants to switch Prilosec users to Nexium. The marketer also wants to create an ...

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