Members
The APG member company main interests and websites are set out below:
Abbott is a global, broad-based health care company devoted to the discovery, development, manufacture and marketing of pharmaceuticals and medical products, including nutritionals, devices and diagnostics. The company employs more than 72,000 people and markets its products in more than 130 countries.
Abbott has been operating in the UK for more than 70 years and currently has operations in Maidenhead, Berkshire (UK Headquarters), Kent, Lancashire, the Midlands and Oxfordshire. An Investor in People and accredited Best Company, Abbott employs more than 2,000 people nationwide.
Abbott's news releases and other information are available on the company's websites at www.abbott.co.uk and www.abbott.com.
AMGEN has grown from a biotechnology pioneer to the world's largest biotechnology company. As a science-based, patient-focused organisation we discover and develop innovative therapies to treat serious illnesses. Our medicines have made a dramatic difference in the lives of more than eight million people. That is the most important measure of our success.
www.amgen.com
BRISTOL-MYERS SQUIBB is a leader in discovering and developing innovative medicines against the UK's two biggest killers - heart disease and cancer - as well as treatments in the areas of mental health and HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases.
www.b-ms.co.uk
JANSSEN-CILAG is one of the world's leading research-based pharmaceutical companies and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, the world's largest and most diversified healthcare company. In the UK, Janssen-Cilag Limited employs more than 500 people. Key areas of activity include psychiatry, neurology, oncology, HIV, antibiotics, pain management, fungal diseases/dermatology, gastroenterology and women's health.
www.janssen-cilag.co.uk
LILLY is in the process of investing over £220 million in the UK to expand and improve facilities at its major R&D centre and two large manufacturing plants. Currently the 9th largest pharmaceutical business in the UK and amongst the fastest growing pharmaceutical companies in Europe, Lilly's operations in the UK exported over £1 billion worth of medicines to over 100 countries in 2003.
www.lilly.co.uk
Merck Sharp & Dohme Limited (MSD) is the UK subsidiary of Merck & Co., Inc., of Whitehouse Station, New Jersey, USA, a leading research-based pharmaceutical company that discovers, develops, manufactures and markets a wide range of innovative pharmaceutical products to improve human health.
MSD has committed substantial investment in research and manufacturing in the UK because of the unrivalled scientific excellence and skills base available here. It has two sites in the UK: headquarters and pharmaceutical research and development laboratories in Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire; and manufacturing at Cramlington in Northumberland.
www.msd-uk.co.uk
PFIZER is the world's largest research-based pharmaceutical company. In the UK, Pfizer employs around 6,000 people at its UK headquarters in Surrey and its European Research headquarters in Kent. Every month, over two million patients in the UK are prescribed a Pfizer medicine.
www.pfizer.co.uk