Gedeon Richter (Hungary)

Hungarian pharmaceutical group in Budapest, founded in 1901 by the pharmacist Gedeon Richter and listed on the Budapest stock exchange, the largest medicine maker in central and eastern Europe. Makes and sells prescription and over the counter medicines with a portfolio led by women's health and central nervous system products, including its own originator cariprazine, together with biosimilars and active pharmaceutical ingredients, runs its own research centre in Budapest and manufacturing sites in Hungary, Poland, Romania, Russia and India, and sells in more than a hundred countries.