Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

Registered UK Charity (No. 115342)

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 164,965 pages of information and 246,442 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

AstraZeneca

From Graces Guide
Revision as of 08:10, 29 October 2021 by PaulF (talk | contribs)
(diff) ← Older revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)

AstraZeneca plc is a British-Swedish multinational pharmaceutical and biologics company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is the world's seventh-largest pharmaceutical company measured by 2012 prescription drug sales and has operations in over 100 countries

1993 the British chemicals company ICI demerged its pharmaceuticals businesses and its agrochemicals and specialties businesses, to form Zeneca Group plc,.

1999 Astra and Zeneca Group merged to form AstraZeneca plc, with its headquarters in London.

1999 AstraZeneca divested its non-pharmaceutical businesses including Marlow Foods[1]

1999 AstraZeneca identified the "Fairfax-plus" site in North Wilmington, Delaware, as a new location for the company's US base.

2000 The Novartis Agribusiness and Zeneca Agrochemicals businesses were merged as Syngenta.

2015 AstraZeneca has a workforce of more than 6,700 employees across seven sites in the UK.[2]

See Also

Loading...

Sources of Information

  1. The Times Aug. 4, 1999
  2. AstraZeneca in the UK