MEDA (pharmaceutical company)
| MEDA Pharma
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| legal form | FROM |
| ISIN | SE0000221723 |
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Solna , Sweden
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| management | Jörg-Thomas Dierks ( CEO ) |
| Number of employees | 4.156 |
| sales | 19.648 billion Skr. (1.9 billion euros ) |
| Branch | Pharma |
| Website | www.meda.se |
| As of December 31, 2015 | |
MEDA Pharma is a pharmaceutical company based in Solna (Sweden). The company is active in 50 countries with its own subsidiaries. The largest shareholder is the private shipping company Stena Sessan with almost 23 percent.
The company was founded by the pharmaceutical wholesaler ADA , which is now part of Phoenix Pharmahandel . Together with today's Pfizer subsidiary Pharmacia, Meda and ADA were merged in 1989 with the state-owned food company Procordia and the car company Volvo. Two years later, Meda was removed from the conglomerate, and the IPO followed in 1995. In 1999 the company merged with the then leading re-importer Cross Pharma.
At the end of 2013, Jörg-Thomas Dierks took over from the long-standing company boss Anders Lönner at the top.
A German branch is located in Bad Homburg and goes back to a company founded in 1920 by the pharmacists Adolf Rüdiger and Arthur Abelmann, while another emerged from a successor company to the Dresden pharmaceuticals plant in Radebeul .
In 2005 Troponwerke in Cologne was taken over.
In 2008, the group acquired divisions of the Canadian pharmaceutical company Valeant in Western and Eastern Europe for 392 million US dollars.
On April 7, 2011, Meda announced the purchase of the rights to the dermatitis cream Elidel for $ 420 million from its competitor Novartis .
In 2014, Meda bought the Italian manufacturer Rottapharm Madaus for 2.3 billion euros .
On July 20, 2016, the EU cleared Mylan's acquisition of MEDA .
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- ↑ Executive team ( Memento of the original from July 26, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) 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.
- ↑ a b c Annual Report 2015
- ↑ Meda: Survival, Sowing, Harvesting , Pharmacy Adhoc
- ↑ German Chef for Meda ( Memento of the original from August 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Pharmacy Adhoc
- ↑ Tropon gets a new name. In: ksta.de. November 17, 2006, accessed July 26, 2016 .
- ↑ Sweden's Meda AB (SE: MEDAa) Buys American Valeant Pharmaceuticals International (VRX) Units for $ 392 Million ( Memento of the original from October 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , biospace.com
- ↑ uh / rt: Novartis sells rights to Elidel for USD 420 million in cash to Meda. In: Handelszeitung . April 7, 2011, accessed May 18, 2016 .
- ↑ Merger control: Commission clears Mylan's acquisition of Meda under conditions , europa.eu, July 20, 2016
