Astra AB of Sweden and Zeneca Group PLC of
the UK merged on April 6, 1999 to form AstraZeneca
PLC, a global pharmaceutical company which now ranks third worldwide in sales. In the
US, the company has moved up to seventh in sales, and now possesses America's second
largest sales force.
Zeneca Group PLC (Registered Office, London) is a leading international bioscience
group with
sales in 1997 of £5.194 billion. Zeneca Agrochemicals is the crop protection and plant
science
business of Zeneca Group. It is the third largest supplier to the international market
with sales in
1997 of £1.63 billion. |
