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Pliva

Overview

Pliva d.o.o.

type	Subsidiary
industry	Pharmaceutical industry
parent	Teva Pharmaceuticals
foundation	1921
location	Zagreb, Croatia
key people	Mihael Furjan (CEO)
num employees	1,700
products	Generic drugs
revenue	$1.174 billion (2005)
net income	$0.336 billion (2005)
homepage	http://www.pliva.com/
footnotes	‡R1R‡

Pliva d.o.o. is a pharmaceutical company based in Zagreb, Croatia that primarily manufactures and sells generic drugs. It is a subsidiary of Teva Pharmaceuticals.

Pliva is one of the world's largest producers of generic Adderall.

History

In 1918 Gustav Janeček founded the wholesale drug company Isis (today Medika).[2] In 1921 he co-founded the pharmaceutical factory Kaštel d.d. in Karlovac as a joint venture with Isis and Budapest-based Chinoin, and served as the company's first president of the board. The company kept its name after moving production to Zagreb in 1927. It was only in 1941 that it was renamed PLIVA as an acronym for the State Institute for Production of Medicines and Vaccines.[3][4][5]