Bacchus sales face setback

Dong-A Pharmaceutical enjoyed a spike in sales after Bacchus hit supermarkets’ shelves across Korea, posting record revenue of 46.7 billion won in the third quarter of last year due to the gradual fading of speculative demand.

But it didn’t take long for sales to dwindle. Dong-A saw Bacchus sales fell 327 billion won in the first quarter of this year, although the figure showed a 23-percent ...