Zentiva
The Zentiva NV is a Czech internationally operating pharmaceutical company focused on the development, production and distribution of generic specialized products. The company was part of the Sanofi Group from 2009 to 2018 and the brand of its generic products. In 2018, Zentiva was bought by Advent International .
Business data
The Zentiva Group currently employs almost 6,000 people and has production facilities in the Czech Republic , Turkey , Romania and Slovakia . In 2008 the turnover of the still independent Zentiva Group was 664 million euros. In 2010, the parent company generated total sales in the generics segment of around 1.5 billion euros, which also includes the companies Kendrick and Medley, which were also acquired in 2009.
Winthrop Arzneimittel GmbH , which also belongs to the Sanofi Group, is responsible for sales in Germany , and Helvepharm AG in Frauenfeld in Switzerland.
history
The company's roots go back to a former pharmacy in what is now Prague , which was first mentioned in 1488 and was called the Black Eagle ("U černého orla"). In 1857 this pharmacy was acquired by Benjamin Fragner, whose grandson Jiří Fragner decided in 1928 to set up a pharmaceutical company in Prague, in Dolní Měcholupy, where the headquarters of Zentiva NV is still today.
After the nationalization in communist Czechoslovakia in 1946, the company was privatized again after the collapse of communism and from 1993 was called Léčiva (Medicinal Products). This privatization process was completed in 1998 and the company now operated as a public limited company. In 2003 the company was renamed Zentiva NV and in the same year integrated the Slovakian company Slovakofarma, further acquisitions followed in 2005, Sicomed, and in 2007 the pharmaceutical division of the Turkish company Eczacibaşi .
In 2009, the French pharmaceutical company Sanofi increased its 25 percent stake in Zentiva, which it had acquired in 2006, and took over the company completely. Zentiva became part of the Sanofi Group and strengthened the position of the parent company in Eastern Europe. In 2011, the parent company decided to bundle its entire generics activities under the Zentiva brand and thus create the third largest generics group in Europe.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Advent International completed acquisition of Zentiva from Sanofi.
- ↑ Sanofi-Aventis Annual Report 2010 ( Memento of the original of May 22, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English)
- ↑ Sanofi becomes the market leader with generics. In: Apotheke Adhoc. April 9, 2009, accessed January 3, 2018 .
- ^ History. In: zentiva.com. Retrieved January 3, 2018 .
- ↑ Sanofi-Aventis increases
- ↑ Sanofi-Aventis buys in the Czech Republic
- ↑ Zentiva ousts Winthrop from pharmacies ( memento of the original from January 13, 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.
