Daily Record Financial News &
Monday, April 25, 2016
Vol. 103, No. 116 • Two Sections
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Johnson & Johnson last week reported higher first-quarter sales at its Jacksonvillebased contact lens subsidiary, despite a decline in domestic sales and a negative impact on international sales from the strong U.S. dollar. Meanwhile, Johnson & Johnson Vision Care Inc. also announced a revision of a controversial pricing strategy that consumer advocates said was forcing customers to pay higher prices for their contact lenses. Johnson & Johnson said it is discontinuing its Unilateral Pricing Policy (UPP), which set minimum prices for retailers to sell contact lenses. The company, the market leader in contact lens sales, is replacing that policy with a new rewards program that it says encourages patients to visit their eye doctors more often. However, Johnson & Johnson and other contact lens makers that followed the same pricing policy had been under fire since the UPP was introduced in 2014. Critics said that policy undercut retailers which previously offered sharp discounts to the Basch continued on Page A-10
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Attorney wins award named after mentor
JBA president stresses exercise for body, mind
By David Chapman Staff Writer
By Karen Brune Mathis, Managing Editor
Donny MacKenzie has several mementos to remember Bob Beckham, a man he calls the greatest teacher and lawyer he’s ever known. MacKenzie has the prominent trial attorney’s ashtray on his desk at Holland & Knight. Not far from it is the pro bono champion’s martini shaker. But maybe the most memorable keepsake now resides at MacKenzie’s home. The yellow, orange and red piece of art has MacKenzie Beckham’s name on it. But it also has MacKenzie’s, the recipient of the 17th annual Robert J. Beckham Equal Justice Award. The honor is given by Jacksonville Area Legal Aid to an individual or organization that has greatly helped the nonprofit assist low-income people in need of legal
Giselle Carson is always on the run — whether as a lawyer and shareholder at the Marks Gray firm, as president of The Jacksonville Bar Association or as a marathon runner. Carson, 48, was born in Cuba. Her international experience is put to use in her legal career focusing on business immigration, sports immigration and I-9 compliance and litigation. A former physical therapist, she also is very active, having completed triathlons as well as marathons on six of the seven continents. And she’s an Ironman athlete. Talk about growing up. I’m a two-time immigrant, an only child and a self-reinventor. I was born in Cuba, immigrated to Canada when I was 15 with my parents and then later to the United States.
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