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About Wyeth

Fact Sheet

  • One of the world’s largest research-driven pharmaceutical and health care products companies
  • Focus on discovery, development, manufacturing and marketing of pharmaceuticals, vaccines, biotechnology products and non-prescription medicines
  • Major divisions:
    • Wyeth Pharmaceuticals
    • Wyeth Consumer Healthcare
    • Fort Dodge Animal Health
  • 4th largest biotechnology company in the world with
  • Over 3 billion USD worldwide investment in Research & Development in 2006
  • Operating in more than 100 countries with products sold in over 145 countries
  • Manufacturing facilities in four continents and 50,000 employees worldwide

SOME WYETH FIRSTS

  • Development of the “compressed pill” or tablet and the first rotary tablet press
  • First firm to produce penicillin commercially
  • First orally active estrogen, the pioneer product for estrogen replacement therapy
  • First conjugate pneumococcal vaccine to protect infants and toddlers against invasive pneumococcal diseases
  • Develop first antidepressant from new group of SNRI

WYETH MENA

  • Present for over 50 years in the region, including Saudi Arabia
  • Offices in Jeddah with over 120 employees
  • Operating in the GCC, Levant and North Africa
  • Leadership in the following therapeutic areas:
    • Vaccines (Prevenar®)
    • Nutrition (Progress, Progress Gold, Promil Gold, S-26)
    • Immunology (Rapamune)
    • Neuroscience (Effexor)
    • Rheumatoid arthritis (Enbrel)
    • Infectious diseases (Tygacil, Tazoncin)

For more information please log on to www.wyeth.com. For Wyeth nutrition, log on to www.atfalwyeth.com.

Contact Us

Wyeth MENA
HealthCare City
Dubai
United Arab Emirates
B. O. Box 7699
Tel: 0097143635000