Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited is a Japanese pharmaceutical company headquartered in Tokyo, founded in 1781 in Osaka as a medicine wholesaler by Chobei Takeda, making it one of the oldest continuously operating pharmaceutical companies in the world. It is the largest pharmaceutical company in Japan and one of the largest in Asia, and it substantially expanded its global footprint through its 2019 acquisition of the Irish-headquartered biopharmaceutical company Shire.
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Company TypeJapanese multinational pharmaceutical company 1 Founded Year Headquarters Connections
Operates In
A major pharmaceutical company; classified in the atlas pharmaceutical-industry.
In the Other Atlases
- Also in Geography Atlas: Japan, located there.
Sources
1. Wikipedia, Takeda Pharmaceutical Company
Wikipedialead section, sentence 1 (after the Japanese-script parenthetical)
is a Japanese multinational pharmaceutical company.
lead section
Its headquarters is located in Chuo-ku, Osaka, and it has an office in Nihonbashi, Chuo, Tokyo.
History, Founding and initial acquisitions section, first sentence
Takeda Pharmaceuticals was founded in 1781 by Chobei Takeda, and was incorporated on January 29, 1925.
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