AstraZeneca
| AstraZeneca
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| legal form | PLC |
| ISIN | GB0009895292 |
| founding | April 6, 1999 |
| Seat |
Cambridge , United Kingdom Södertälje , Sweden 
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| management | Pascal Soriot Marc Dunoyer Leif Johansson |
| Number of employees | 64,600 (2018) |
| sales | $ 22 billion (2018) |
| Website | www.astrazeneca.com |
AstraZeneca is an international pharmaceutical company that was formed in 1999 from the Swedish Astra AB and the British Zeneca PLC. Zeneca was formed in 1993 from the pharmaceutical division of the British chemical company Imperial Chemical Industries . The head office is in Cambridge , the development and research department is in Södertälje, Sweden, south of Stockholm . AstraZeneca is one of the largest pharmaceutical companies worldwide with 2018 sales of $ 22.09 billion and 64,600 employees.
Products
The main products are:
- Acerbon ( Lisinopril )
- Antra MUPS ( omeprazole )
- Arimidex ( anastrozole )
- AscoTop ( zolmitriptan )
- Atacand ( candesartan )
- Axanum ( esomeprazole / acetylsalicylic acid )
- Beloc-Zok ( metoprolol )
- Bevespi ( glycopyrronium bromide / formoterol )
- Brilique ( Ticagrelor )
- Bydureon ( exenatide )
- Casodex ( bicalutamide ) ( antiandrogen )
- Crestor ( rosuvastatin )
- Daxas ( roflumilast )
- Duaklir / Brimica ( aclidinium bromide / formoterol )
- Eklira / Bretaris (aclidinium bromide)
- Fasenra ( benralizumab )
- Forxiga ( dapagliflozin )
- Imfinzi ( durvalumab )
- Komboglyze ( saxagliptin / metformin hydrochloride )
- Lynparza ( olaparib ) ( PARP inhibitor )
- Nexium Mups ( esomeprazole )
- Onglyza ( saxagliptin )
- Paludrine ( Proguanil )
- Pulmicort ( budesonide )
- Seroquel ( quetiapine )
- Symbicort ( budesonide / formoterol )
- Tagrisso ( osimertinib )
- Vimovo ( naproxen / esomeprazole )
- Xigduo ( dapagliflozin / metformin hydrochloride )
- Zibotentan
- Zoliflodacin
Locations in Germany
In Germany, AstraZeneca has a location in Wedel near Hamburg with around 625 employees in the office and in the field. Due to changes in the economic and health policy framework, around 400 jobs were cut in 2012. In September 2019, AstraZeneca also announced that it would close the Wedel production site at the end of 2021. AstraZeneca cited declines in tablet packaging after product sales and an increasing focus on specialty preparations with smaller volumes as the reason for the closure.
AstraZeneca had a location in Plankstadt in Baden-Württemberg with around 430 employees. On April 26, 2007 it was announced that the Plankstadt site would be sold or closed until 2009. The site was sold to the International Chemical Investors Group and has been operating under the name Corden Pharma since February 1, 2008 .
Company holdings
On December 2, 1999, it was announced that the agricultural divisions of Novartis and AstraZeneca would be spun off and merged into the world's largest agricultural group Syngenta , headquartered in Basel . In December 2013, AstraZeneca announced the acquisition of Bristol-Myers Squibb's diabetes business for $ 2.7 billion and milestone payments of $ 1.6 billion. After an attempt to acquire the company by Pfizer was rejected in the course of 2014 , AstraZeneca expanded in July 2014 with the acquisition of the airway division of the Spanish competitor Almirall for 1.22 billion US dollars including milestone payments. In February 2015 the company finally announced to also acquire the rights to the airway products purchased by Almirall in the United States and Canada from Actavis at a price of 700 million US dollars including milestone payments. The US pharmaceutical company Pfizer has announced the purchase of large parts of the antibiotics business from AstraZeneca.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Our leadership team - The Board. AstraZeneca, accessed August 3, 2016 .
- ↑ a b What science can do. (PDF file; 5.6 MB) AstraZeneca, accessed on April 2, 2019 (English).
- ↑ a b Full-Year and Q4 2018 Results. (PDF file; 13 MB) AstraZeneca, February 14, 2019, accessed on April 2, 2019 .
- ↑ AstraZeneca is repositioning itself in the German market. AstraZeneca, December 4, 2012, archived from the original on August 26, 2014 ; Retrieved March 13, 2013 .
- ↑ Astra-Zeneca will close production in Wedel at the end of 2021. Axel Springer SE, September 19, 2019, accessed on March 17, 2020 .
- ^ Company press release ( Memento of May 19, 2007 in the Internet Archive ).
- ↑ ic-investors.com: Corden Pharma GmbH is the name of the future for the AstraZeneca plant in Plankstadt , February 1, 2008.
- ↑ AstraZeneca: Diabetes deal concluded with BMS. Doctors newspaper , February 5, 2014, accessed on May 6, 2015 .
- ↑ AstraZeneca remains independent: Pfizer swallows the bitter pill. n-tv , May 26, 2014, accessed May 6, 2015 .
- ↑ AstraZeneca acquires Almirall's respiratory drug business. Finanztreff , July 30, 2014, archived from the original on February 9, 2015 ; accessed on May 6, 2015 .
- ↑ Actavis to Divest Respiratory Business to AstraZeneca. Zacks Investment Research, May 6, 2015, accessed May 6, 2015 .
- ^ Pfizer takes on AZ antibiotics. Retrieved August 24, 2016 .