founded 1965 headquarters 30 novopharm court toronto ontario canada m1b 2k9 key people barry fishman president & ceo products generic pharmaceuticals website www.tevacanada.com teva canada is one of canada s largest generic pharmaceutical companies . the company was originally founded as novopharm by leslie dan in 1965 . after its acquisition by pharmaceutical giant teva pharmaceutical industries in 2000 it was renamed teva novopharm . the novopharm name was officially dropped in 2010 when it became teva canada . 1 history of the company edit novopharm was founded by pharmacist and businessman leslie dan in 1965 . its first product was the generic antibiotic tetracycline . the company expanded to become canada s second largest generic drug manufacturer and it also owned sites in the us and hungary by the mid 1990s . 2 in hungary the company owned a small subsidiary called human . in the us it operated a distribution center in schaumburg illinois although all products continued to be made in canada . novopharm was the first generic company to market a generic version of glaxo s zantac for the us market . 3 novopharm remained privately held by the dan family until 2000 when it was acquired by teva pharmaceuticals . 4 5 at the time novopharm was canada s second largest drug manufacturer . 6 teva a generic drug manufacturer based in jerusalem israel was already one of the world s largest generic manufacturers . the acquisition made teva the largest generic drug company in north america . facilities and markets served edit teva canada maintains several facilities in the toronto ontario area including its headquarters in scarborough a specialized antibiotics manufacturing facility in markham and their main manufacturing facility in stouffville . 7 their headquarters is also home to their main laboratory packaging and warehousing operations . according to their promotional brochure their markham site which underwent a major expansion in 2004 8 is the largest antibiotic manufacturing facility in north america . 9 in addition to the canadian drug market products manufactured by teva canada are exported worldwide 8 under the teva name . references edit novopharm limited becomes teva canada limited . cnw . february 16 2010 . retrieved 2010 04 13 . teva bolsters position with acquisitions . teva pharmaceutical industries ltd. . chain drug review . september 25 2000 . retrieved 2009 05 08 . a maker of generic zantac wins a round from glaxo . the new york times . bloomberg business news . july 8 1996 . retrieved 2009 05 08 . teva completes novopharm takeover . jerusalem post online ed . . april 6 2000 . retrieved 2009 05 08 . teva completes novopharm takeover . business wire . february 1 2000 . retrieved 2009 05 08 . teva announces completion of novopharm acquisition . . business wire . april 5 2000 . retrieved 2009 05 08 . facilities . our company . teva canada . retrieved october 10 2010 . a b novopharm to invest in facility . icis.com . march 15 2004 . retrieved 2009 05 08 . your global advantage teva novopharm . teva novopharm . retrieved 2009 05 08 . dead link retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title teva canada & oldid 742304651 categories companies based in scarborough torontopharmaceutical companies of canadapharmaceutical companies established in 1965hidden categories all articles with dead external linksarticles with dead external links from october 2010 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 2 october 2016 at 22 45 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view