Allergan India Pvt Ltd., a joint venture between Allergan Inc., and Nicholas Piramal India Limited, commenced commercial operations in 1996. Allergan India is a specialty pharmaceutical company. It has emerged as the market leader in the fast growing ophthalmic category with the successful launches of a series of high technology solutions and drugs for diseases such as glaucoma, dry eye and various other eye-infections and inflammations. Allergan India is today the partner of choice for majority of the eye-specialists in the country. With sales of
Rs. 100+ crores and a strong organization, Allergan India is poised to grow at a rapid pace.
Allergan Inc., a Fortune 1000 company (2007 Rank #644 amongst US based companies) in the US with headquarters in Irvine, California, is an innovative, technology driven, global health care company that develops and commercializes specialty pharmaceutical & healthcare products that deliver value to its customers, satisfy unmet medical needs and continually improve patient’s lives. With reported revenues of $3.9 bn in ’07 and a significant investment of $700mn in R&D, Allergan currently operates in over 101 countries worldwide. Allergan markets products that deliver value to its customers, satisfy unmet medical needs and improve patients’ lives.
Founded in 1948, Allergan employs more than 6,000 colleagues worldwide. Allergan is a pioneer in specialty pharmaceutical research, with a strong pipeline of products and technologies related to specific disease areas such as glaucoma, retinal disease, cataracts, dry eye, pain, movement disorders.
Allergan Inc is known for its operational excellence and for the very same reason; Forbes has listed Allergan Inc as the best managed company in the drugs and Biotechnology segment in the US.
ALLERGAN INDIA PVT. LTD.
Allergan India Pvt. Ltd., a joint venture of Allergan Inc. with Nicolas Piramal India Ltd. was incorporated in 1994 and started its operations in Feb ’96. We achieved market leadership in almost all the therapy areas we operate in within 3 years of launching operations in India and not only sustained but gained market share points ever since.
We employ roughly 300 colleagues in India in 4 different verticals of business i.e. Eyecare, Medical Aesthetics & Neurosciences, Clinical Research & Allergan Health. Allergan is the undisputed leader in the Eyecare pharma market with dominance in all major disease segments.
Our Medical Aesthetics & Neurosciences, which is primarily “Botox” business is making waves in the Indian cosmetic market and poised for a giant leap forward.
Allergan Clinical research unit based in Bangalore is a state-of-the-art facility which is a 100% subsidiary of Allergan Inc and operationally reports to Allergan Pharmaceutical Development Centre, UK. Allergan Clinical Research Unit does captive research for Allergan Inc. Clinical Data Management is a liaison group which supports the central team in Irvine responsible for all data management activities within the Asia Pacific Region.
Very recently, we launched our state-of the art products in morbid obesity interventions like LAPBAND & BIB which further strengthens Allergan’s image as a technology driven player in the Indian Healthcare Diaspora.
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