Roche S.p.A.

Type: Subsidiary
On the web: http://www.roche.it

Italians rely on more than their Mediterranean diet to stay healthy. The Italian subsidiary of Swiss drug maker Roche manufactures all of the company's most successful medications -- hepatitis B and C drug Pegasys, cancer drugs Herceptin and Avastin, and MabThera, for non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Roche S.p.A.'s business is roughly 40% oncology and hematology, 30% specialty care (Pegasys, Neorecormon, Copegus), and 30% primary care (analgesics, antibiotics). Its 700,000-square-foot production facility in Segrate, a town near Milan in northern Italy, produces almost 1,400 tons of medication every year, about 60% of which is exported across Europe.

Officers:
Chairman: Antonio Giorgio Ortolani
Director General: Diagnostic Substance Manufacturing

Competitors:
Gentium
GSK Italy
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