Interview with Jenny Winter, Managing Director, AstraZeneca Hungary
The Hungarian pharmaceutical environment has been undergoing many changes recently, such as a sales tax increase to 20%. Do you feel this is a climate of threat to MNCs in…
Address: 1113 Budapest, Bocskai út 134-146. Hungary,Hungary
Tel: +36 1 883 6500
Web: http://www.astrazeneca.hu/
We are active in over 100 countries with a growing presence in emerging markets including China, Brazil, Mexico and Russia.
We employ over 61,000 people (46% in Europe, 24% in the North America, 7% in Latin America and 24% in Asia, Africa and Australasia).
We invest over $4 billion in R&D each year. Around 15,7001 people work in our R&D organisation and we have 14 major R&D centres in eight countries, including Sweden, the US and the UK.
We have 9,300 employees at 23 supply and manufacturing sites in 16 countries.
In 2010, our worldwide sales totalled over $33 billion (including 10 medicines with sales of over $1 billion each).
Alongside our commitment to competitiveness and performance, we continue to be led by our core values to deliver business success responsibly. We are positioned in the top 8% in the sector in the Dow Jones World and STOXX (European) Sustainability Indexes.
We focus our skills and resources on six important areas of healthcare, which include some of the world’s most serious illnesses:
– Cardiovascular
– Gastrointestinal
– Infection
– Neuroscience
– Oncology
– Respiratory
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