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Teva Pharmaceutical Industries is simply one of the world’s
biggest makers of generic drugs. In Israel, it is the corporate
version of a national celebrity.
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd also known as Teva
Pharmaceuticals, it was Founded 1901 (119 years ago) and it
was
Founded by Gunther Friedlander.
This is a multinational pharmaceutical company with dual
headquarters in Petah Tikva, Israel (global) and Parsippany, New
Jersey, U.S. (commercial). It specializes primarily in generic
drugs, but other business interests include active pharmaceutical
ingredients and, to a lesser extent, proprietary pharmaceuticals.(
A full list of products is available from www.tevagenerics.com.)It
is the largest generic drug manufacturer in the world and one of
the 15 largest pharmaceutical companies worldwide. The industry
keep available facilities in Israel, North America, Europe,
Australia, and South America. Teva shares are listed on the Tel
Aviv Stock Exchange. The company is a member of the Pharmaceutical
Research and Manufacturers of America .
Teva is pronounced TEH-VAH, with a soft "e." Teva is the Hebrew
word for nature.
Noteworthy points about Teva Pharmaceutical Industries
Type:Public company
Traded as TASE: TEVA
NYSE: TEVA
ISINIL0006290147
ElsteinHeadquarters:Petah Tikva
Israel Parsippany, New Jersey U.S. (commercial)
, Subsidiaries: Actavis, Pliva, Teva Canada, Cephalon, Inc., Merckle GmbH, Anda, and more
Key people:Kare Schultz (president and CEO),Sol Barer
(chairman) and
Mike McClellan (chief financial officer)
Products: Pharmaceuticals
Revenue US$18.9 billion (2018)
Number of employees:
42,535 (2018)
Website : www.tevapharm.com
The first homegrown, global success story and one of Israel’s
largest employers, Teva is both a source of pride and a symbol of
the country’s financial ambitions. Its place in the Israeli
public’s imagination is similar to the one General Motors, in its
heyday, occupied in America — but in a nation with a population
about the size of New York City’s. The company’s shares are owned
by so many pension funds that it is known informally as the
people’s stock.
Today, many of those people are furious. Management missteps and
tectonic shifts in the pharmaceutical business have battered Teva,
which faces declining prices for generic drugs and the loss of a
patent on a major branded drug. More than $20 billion has been
shorn from the company’s market capitalization since 2017 began,
cutting Teva’s value roughly in half.
Teva holds patents on multiple drugs, including: Copaxone, a
specialty drug for the treatment of multiple sclerosis, now the
world's best selling MS drug, and Azilect sold as Agilect in some
countries for treatment of Parkinson's disease. By July 2015
Copaxone held a 31.2 percent shares of total MS prescriptions in
the United States.Teva's new 40 mg version of Copaxone taken three
times a week accounted for 68.5 percent of total Copaxone
prescriptions in the United States.Copaxone accounts for about
fifty percent of "Teva's profit and 20 percent of
revenue.Competitors' Glatopa, 20 mg version of Copaxone, is taken
once a day.
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries' November 2017 restructuring plan
was necessary to cut costs by $3 billion by the end of 2019 due to
a dramatic drop in revenues, stated CEO Kare Schultz in a press
conference .Otherwise, the company would have gone bankrupt, he
said.
Teva turnaround still coming after the stock's 70% loss in the past
five years? Teva Pharmaceuticals one of the world's largest drug
manufacturers, is still on track to recover from its trough year"
in 2020, according to CEO Kare Schultz.
New organizational structure:
Teva Pharmaceutical has undertaken a number of acquisitions over
the last several years, which led to multiple business functions
with complicated structures. In order to optimize its operations
and enable strategic alignment, Teva believes it is imperative to
realign its business.
Teva now operates as one commercial organization in three
regions: North America, Europe, and Growth Markets. Previously, the
company operated through two global groups for specialty and
generic medicines. Teva said some of the global units will be made
redundant during the organizational optimization implementation.
Two global R&D (research and development) divisions for generic
and specialty medicines will be combined into one group.
The company has also established a new Marketing & Portfolio
function. It will take care of the efficient interface between
various geographic regions, R&D, and its operations throughout
all stages of a product’s life cycle. The function will also be
responsible for portfolio optimization of generic and specialty
portfolios.
The VanEck Vectors Pharmaceutical ETF (PPH) is one of the major
ETFs that could see a movement in prices with a turnaround in
Teva’s business performance and related events. TEVA makes up 6% of
PPH’s total portfolio.
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