Company Overview
Sandoz - a healthy decision
- Sandoz is a Novartis company with a reputation for quality going back to its roots in the 19th century (foundation of Sandoz by Edouard Sandoz in 1886).
- The Sandoz Vision is to be the main provider of high quality, affordable medicines helping secure long-term access to healthcare for people around the world.
- Sandoz, a global generics leader, develops, produces and markets medicines that are no longer protected by patents, along with pharmaceutical and biotechnological active substances.
- Sandoz offers patients approximately 1.000 molecules worldwide.
- Sandoz medicines are available to about 90% of the world’s population.
- Sandoz produces far more than just traditional off-patent products. We differentiate ourselves from other companies by developing and producing difficult-to-make generics that require an exceptionally high degree of expertise and knowledge and often involve complex high-tech delivery systems. These range from oral solids and inhalers through patch technologies to state-of-the-art biosimilars – approved versions of biopharmaceutical medicines.
- Sandoz has eight major global development centers and a worldwide network of production sites and technology centers of excellence.
- Sandoz reported generic pharmaceutical sales of USD 7.6 billion in 2008 and employs more than 23,000 associates in 130 countries.
- Sandoz global headquarters are based in Holzkirchen, Germany, just south of Munich.
