Information About

Novartis




  Company Type Public (NYSE ADS:NVS)(virt-x:NOVN)
  Foundation 1996 (from merger)
  Location Basel, Switzerland (Headquarters)
  Key People Daniel Vasella ( CEO )
  Industry Pharmaceuticals
  Products Exelon , Lamisil , Neoral , Interceptor , Clomicalm , etc
  Revenue > 25 billion (2004)
  Num Employees 81,400
  Homepage http://wwwnovartiscom


Novartis International AG is a Multinational Pharmaceutical Company based in Basel, Switzerland .


HISTORY

Novartis was created in 1996 from the merger of CIBA-Geigy and Sandoz Laboratories , both Swiss companies with long individual histories. At the time of the merger, it was the largest corporate merger in history. Taking into account the histories of the merger partners, the company's history stretches back to 1758 .

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Novartis combined its Agricultural division with that of AstraZeneca to create Syngenta in November of 2000 .

Sandoz is best known for synthesizing LSD in 1938 . They later marketed it (under the trade name ''Delysid'') as a Psychiatric miracle cure from 1947 through the early 1960s. Today, Sandoz is a producer of Generics .