German pharmaceutical giant Bayer AG apparently wants no part of a bidding war for Salt Lake City–based Schiff Nutrition International, which makes vitamins and nutritional supplements such as Airborne.

Trumped by a $1.4 billion bid by U.K. consumer products company the Reckitt Benckiser Group, Bayer said in a letter addressed to Schiff general counsel Scott Milsten on Monday that it has no plans to increase the $1.2 billion offer it made at the end of October to acquire Schiff.

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