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IMS COM PANY PRO FILES TAKEDA
• Year: 2001
Kirin and Takeda es tab lished Takeda-Kirin Foods, a joint ven ture com pany in the food busi ness, in ac cor -
dance with a ba sic agree ment con cluded in 2000. Kirin has an ini tial 51% stake in the com pany, with
Takeda own ing 49%. Kirin will even tu ally ac quire all of the shares by 2007.
Takeda Amer ica, merged its US sub sid iar ies fol low ing bulk vi ta min busi ness re struc tur ing. The com pany
an nounced the merger of its wholly owned busi ness, Takeda Fi nance USA, with Takeda Amer i can Hold -
ings in July. The new com pany is called Takeda American Holdings.
Takeda agreed to hand over mar ket ing of syn thetic rub ber la tex to un listed chem i cal maker Nip pon A and
l. This move is the first step to ward a planned trans fer of Takeda’s en tire rub ber la tex busi ness some time
in the fu ture, which re flects the drugmaker’s ef forts to spin off non-core operations.
• Year: 1998
Takeda ac quired the 5% of Laboratoires Takeda (France) that it did not pre vi ously own, from Hoechst
Marion Roussel (now part of sanofi-aventis, France). It was es tab lished in 1978 as a joint ven ture and is
now a wholly owned sub sid iary of Takeda.
Takeda ac quired 38.46% of the shares of Takeda Italia Farmaceutici SpA, a jv es tab lished with Lederle in
1982, from Lederle’s par ent com pany Amer i can Home Prod ucts (now Wyeth, USA). Con se quently,
Takeda owned 76.92% of TIF (90.91% of vot ing shares) and ac quired man age ment control.
Takeda an nounced that it had agreed to sell 10% of the shares of Lederle (Ja pan) to AHP, which now
owns Lederle. Its stake was thus re duced to 40% from 50%, and AHP (now Wyeth) owned 60%. In 1998,
Lederle (Ja pan) and the eth i cal prod ucts busi ness of Wyeth (Ja pan) were com bined into a new busi ness
named Wyeth Lederle Japan.
• Year: 1997
Takeda ac quired the man age ment rights of Grelan (Ire land), a wholly-owned sub sid iary of Grelan
Pharmaceuticals (Ja pan). Takeda holds a stake in Grelan. The Irish com pany was es tab lished in 1997,
but proved a fi nan cial drain on Grelan as it had not be gun op er a tions. Takeda will re name it Takeda Ire -
land. It will be Takeda’s first over seas man u fac tur ing base.
• Year: 1992
Takeda and Roussel-Uclaf (France) an nounced a deal un der which Takeda would pur chase from
Roussel-Uclaf 45% of the shares of their jv, Takeda SA (France). Ef fec tive Jan u ary 1993, Takeda owned
95% and R-U re tained 5%.
• Year: 1988
In creased stake in Imre (USA) to 10%.
� Other Major Events
• Year: 2009
Jan u ary: Stefan Ziegler ap pointed as CEO of Takeda Pharmaceuticals Asia Pri vate Lim ited (TPAsia), its’
wholly owned sub sid iary in Sin ga pore that was es tab lished in Sep tem ber 2008.
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