Winthrop Medicines

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Winthrop Arzneimittel GmbH

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Seat Mülheim-Kärlich
Status: 2009

Winthrop Arzneimittel GmbH is a pharmaceutical company that focuses on the distribution of generic and OTC products . Today it is part of the Sanofi Group .

Business data

The Winthrop Arzneimittel GmbH has its administrative headquarters and the seat of the sales force in the Sony Center in Berlin , where she by him in 2009 Fuerstenfeldbruck from misplaced. The actual company headquarters is in Mülheim-Kärlich near Koblenz , from where the products are also dispatched. In 2006 a new distribution center was opened there.

history

The Winthrop Arzneimittel GmbH has its origins in the 1958 founded Lichtenstein pharmaceuticals GmbH & Co. OHG in Baden-Wuerttemberg . Around 1989 Lichtenstein Pharmazeutica GmbH was a subsidiary of the Norderstedter Schülke & Mayr GmbH alongside Hinds GmbH and was taken over by Synthélabo Holding GmbH in 1995. In 1999 Synthélabo merged with Sanofi to form Sanofi-Synthélabo and in 2004 after the takeover of Aventis to Sanofi-Aventis, since 2011 the group has been operating under the name Sanofi .

On January 1, 2005, Lichtenstein Pharmazeutica GmbH was renamed Winthrop Arzneimittel GmbH. Since then, the generics division of Sanofi has been run under the name Winthrop . Lichtenstein was retained as a brand name . In 2009, Winthrop Arzneimittel GmbH was integrated into the newly created "Commercial" area of ​​Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GmbH, where it continues to be responsible for the generics and OTC area. In April 2011 it was announced that the parent company would like to bundle its generics activities under the name of the Czech generics company Zentiva, which was acquired in 2009 . Winthrop Arzneimittel GmbH remained responsible for the distribution of all preparations in Germany. Since August 1, 2014, all Winthrop Arzneimittel GmbH products have been trading under the name Zentiva . In 2018, Sanofi sold the generics division Zentiva to Advent International .

The name Winthrop comes from the history of the parent company. In 1994 the Elf-Sanofi Group , which was still part of Total, acquired the pharmaceuticals division of Sterling Winthrop , Inc. and renamed “Sanofi-Winthrop”.

Individual evidence

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  2. Address ( Memento from August 25, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
  3. New home for medicines
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  8. history. In: zentiva.de. January 1, 2005, accessed December 7, 2018 .
  9. Zentiva ousts Winthrop from pharmacies ( memento from February 17, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) Apotheke Adhoc, April 8, 2011.
  10. Generics and OTC: Winthrop becomes Zentiva Pharmazeutische Zeitung online, August 5, 2014.
  11. Celine Müller, pharmacist, editor Daz: Sanofi sells generics division. In: deutsche-apotheker-zeitung.de. April 17, 2018, accessed December 7, 2018 .
  12. Sanofi Germany - complete overview. In: sanofi.de. Retrieved January 2, 2018 .