Warner Chilcott (formerly Galen) is a pharmaceutical company based in Rockaway, New Jersey, USA. It has production and research facilities in Fajardo, Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico

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, Larne, Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland

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, Dundalk, Ireland

Ireland

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 and Weiterstadt, Germany

Germany

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. It is primarily focused on two core therapeutic areas: women’s healthcare and dermatology

Dermatology

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. The company has 2700 employees worldwide, 1700 of which are based in the United States . The company established its corporate headquarters in Dublin, Ireland in 2010.

History

In 1968 the Company was founded by Sir Allen McClay

Allen McClay

Sir Allen McClay, CBE was a Northern Irish multi-millionaire businessman and philanthropist who founded Galen , a pharmaceutical company which was Northern Ireland's first one billion pound business. After resigning from Galen in 2001, he went on to form a second successful pharmaceutical company,...

 as Galen, a sales and marketing organisation focused on branded pharmaceutical products in the UK

United Kingdom

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 and Republic of Ireland

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. The company listed its shares on the London Stock Exchange

London Stock Exchange

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 and Irish Stock Exchange

Irish Stock Exchange

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.

In 2000, Galen acquired the Warner Chilcott US pharmaceutical company which is focused on women’s healthcare, and simultaneously listed its ADRs

American Depositary Receipt

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 on NASDAQ

NASDAQ

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. In 2004, the company changed its name from Galen to Warner Chilcott.

On October 30, 2009, Warner Chilcott closed a deal to acquire Procter & Gamble

Procter & Gamble

Procter & Gamble is a Fortune 500 American multinational corporation headquartered in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio and manufactures a wide range of consumer goods....

's prescription-drug business for $3.1 billion, according to the Wall Street Journal; the deal had been announced on August 24, 2009

Warner Chilcott markets Sarafem (fluoxetine or 'Prozac') which is manufactured by Eli Lilly and Company.