Asian Pharmaceutical Giant Takeda To Eliminate 2,800 Jobs in the US and Europe
Asia’s largest drug maker, Takeda, today announced that it will eliminate 2,800 jobs or about 9% of its workforce in the US and Europe. The job cuts, planned over the next four years, are intended to better integrate NycoMed, the Swiss company purchased by Takeda for $12 billion last September.
Most of the positions affected by the downsizing are in the US and Europe and will help the company save $1.7 billion over the next year or so.The plan includes the elimination of 2,100 jobs mainly in Europe and 700 in the U.S. across research, commercial, operations and administrative functions. Takeda currently has about 30,000 employees worldwide with operations in 42 countries.
The reason for the downsizing is slumping US sales of the company’s top selling drug Actos (diabetes) that will lose patent protection this August and face stiff generic competition. Like other pharmaceutical companies, Takeda is abandoning the US and European markets in favor emerging markets in China, India, Brazil and the Middle East.
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