Interview with Martin Nelzow, CEO, Boehringer Ingelheim Brazil
You came to Boehringer Ingelheim in 2009 – what are some of the most exciting milestones and achievements you have presided over during this time? Looking back on almost three…
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The Boehringer Ingelheim group is one of the top 20 pharmaceutical companies in the world. Headquartered in Ingelheim, Germany, operates globally with 138 affiliates in 47 countries and 41,300 employees. Since its founding in 1885, this family business is committed to researching, developing and marketing novel products of high therapeutic value for human and veterinary medicine.
Present in Brazil since 1956, headquartered in Sao Paulo and factory in Itapecerica da Serra (SP), the company employs approximately 1,000 employees and sells products with brands like Anador ®, Bisolvon ®, Buscopan ®, Dulcolax ®, and Mucosolvan ® ® Pharmaton , and several prescription products, with an outstanding performance in the areas respiratory, cardiovascular, Parkinson’s and others.
Located in Itapecerica da Serra, São Paulo, the Brazilian plant has excellence in the manufacture of medicines and is one of the largest and most modern of the group in the world, accounting for the 3rd largest production volume, representing 10% of the company’s global . Through its Industrial Business Area, the plant of Boehringer Ingelheim in Brazil also produces products for other laboratories.
Since 1998, Boehringer Ingelheim has been designated by the Great Place to Work Institute as one of the 100 best companies to work in Brazil. In total, there have been nine nominations, eight of them consecutive. Since 2004 the company has also been designated by the Great Place to Work as one of the best companies to work in Latin America.
Anador ®, Bisolvon ®, Buscopan ®, Dulcolax ®, and Mucosolvan ® ® Pharmaton
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