founded 1874 headquarters z rich switzerland area served europe key people h. bj rklund ceo toni weitzberg chairman revenue eur 3 400 million 2006 number of employees 12 400 2007 parent takeda pharmaceutical website www.nycomed.com nycomed is a norwegian pharmaceutical company . nycomed was acquired by takeda pharmaceutical in september 2011 . production is located in norway denmark poland austria belgium germany estonia india mexico brazil and argentina . head office is located in z rich switzerland . total revenue was 3 400 million 2006 and the group had 12 000 employees . the nycomed company annually awards a prize totaling 20 000 euros to four excellent junior scientists at the university of konstanz . also the award promotes the concept of scientific exchange and networking of its winners . contents 1 history 1.1 collaborative research 2 notes and references 3 see also 4 external links history edit the company was started in norway in 1874 as an agent of foreign pharmaceutical products . the founder was pharmacist morten nyegaard and co owner was theodor haslund . nyegaard backed out in 1901 and theodor haslund was co owner with emil steen until 1906 . fredrik l. christensen was then steen s partner until 1913 when steen became sole owner . 1 steen was behind the transformation of the company from a wholesaling company to a manufacturer of pharmaceutical products . 2 after his death his widow laura steen took over the company ; in 1921 their son fredrik steen took over . the company soon merged with koren & gedde owned since 1919 by sverre blix . blix became co owner with fredrik steen . 1 the company name was nyegaard & co. from 1890 until 1986 when it was changed to nycomed . in 1913 it started producing generic drugs among these globoid copy of aspirin . in 1969 the revolutionary radiocontrast agent amipaque was discovered starting a long process of internationalisation . the next generation product omnipaque made the company highly successful . in 1986 nycomed was purchased by the power company hafslund . in 1994 the diagnostic division of us based sterling winthrop was acquired . then in 1996 the therapeutics division nycomed pharma was demerged whilst the diagnostic division nycomed imaging was merged with the british company amersham plc. in 1999 the therapeutics company was established under the name nycomed as an independent company . in 2007 nycomed took over the much larger german pharmaceutical company altana pharma . this acquisition made nycomed one of the world s 25 largest pharmaceutical companies . in 2007 nycomed acquired american company bradley pharmaceuticals . the closing deal was completed on february 21 2008 and bradley pharmaceuticals became an integral part of nycomed . nycomed has pursued a strategy of licensing new medicines from research companies and introducing them to europe . the company provides specialist hospital products e.g. tachosil throughout europe . general practitioner and pharmacy medicines are also provided but in selected countries . today the company is active throughout europe and continues to expand into new markets . in october 2008 nycomed canada inc . was named one of canada s top 100 employers by mediacorp canada inc. and was featured in maclean s newsmagazine . later that month nycomed canada was also named one of greater toronto s top employers which was announced by the toronto star newspaper . 3 on may 19 2011 takeda pharmaceutical and nycomed announced that takeda would acquire nycomed for 9.6 billion . the acquisition was completed by the end of september 2011 . 4 collaborative research edit in addition to internal research and development activities nycomed is also involved in publicly funded collaborative research projects with other industrial and academic partners . one example in the area of non clinical safety assessment is the innomed predtox . 5 6 notes and references edit a b norsk legemiddelindutris eventyrlige utvikling . aftenposten . 25 november 1949 . p. 7 . 50 aars forretningsjubil um . nyegaard & co. . aftenposten . 27 august 1924 . p. 4 . reasons for selection 2009 canada s top 100 employers competition . takeda to acquire nycomed transaction will transform takeda s global business . retrieved 2011 05 19 . mattes william b. 2008 . public consortium efforts in toxicogenomics . in mendrick donna l. ; mattes william b. essential concepts in toxicogenomics . methods in molecular biology . 460 . pp. 221 238 . doi 10.1007 978 1 60327 048 9 11 . isbn 978 1 58829 638 2 . pmid 18449490 . innomed predtox member organizations . retrieved 2008 08 25 . see also edit list of pharmaceutical companies pharmaceutical industry in switzerland external links edit wikimedia commons has media related to nycomed . official website companies portal switzerland portal retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title nycomed & oldid 717055172 categories pharmaceutical companies of norwaypharmaceutical companies of switzerlandcompanies established in 18741874 establishments in switzerlandtakeda pharmaceutical companyhidden categories pages using infobox company with unsupported parameterscommons category with local link same as on wikidataofficial website different in wikidata and wikipedia 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 in other projects wikimedia commons languages danskdeutscheestifran ais norsk bokm lnorsk nynorskrom n edit links this page was last modified on 25 april 2016 at 13 26 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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