Astellas

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Astellas

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legal form Kabushiki-gaisha (joint stock company)
ISIN JP3942400007
founding 2005 (1923 as Yamanouchi Yakuhin Shōkai)
Seat Nihonbashi-Honcho , Chūō , Tokyo , Japan
management Yoshihiko Hatanaka (President and Chief Executive Officer), Masafumi Nogimori (Representative Director and Chairman), Yasuo Ishii (Representative Director and Vice Deputy Chairman)
Number of employees 17,650 (Group, March 2014)
sales 1,384 billion yen (2015, approx. 11 billion euros)
Branch drug
Website www.astellas.com
www.astellas.eu

Astellas Seiyaku KK ( Japanese ア ス テ ラ ス 製 薬 株式会社 , Asuterasu Seiyaku Kabushiki-gaisha , English Astellas Pharma, Inc. ), listed in the Nikkei 225 , is with Takeda Pharmaceutical and Daiichi Sankyo - with around 8.5 billion euros in annual sales - one of the three largest Japanese pharmaceutical companies.

It was founded on April 1, 2005 through the merger of the companies Yamanouchi Seiyaku and Fujisawa Yakuhin Kōgyō .

In Germany, the companies were initially under the leadership of this group

active.

On August 19, 2005, these companies were transferred to the group subsidiary Astellas Pharma GmbH .

Astellas focuses on the development, manufacture and sale of pharmaceuticals for the areas of oncology , transplant medicine , anti-infectives , dermatology , pain and urology .

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  1. Astellas Pharma Inc. Corporate Profile ( Memento of the original from July 22, 2012 on WebCite ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.astellas.com
  2. ^ Astellas Pharma Inc. Finance Highlights
  3. History | Astellas Pharma Inc. GLOBAL WEBSITE. Retrieved June 22, 2019 .