Sepracor Inc.

• Public
• US

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Founded in 1984, Sepracor was originally comprised of several diverse business units. In 1989, we embarked on a strategy of developing single isomers and active metabolites of many of the world's largest selling drugs, with the objective of developing our own proprietary pipeline of pharmaceutical products. Sepracor became a publicly traded corporation in 1991, and we subsequently divested our non-pharmaceutical business units into four different companies, retaining our core pharmaceutical business. Sepracor was built on the premise that chiral drugs could, in essence, be divided into two or more "parts" and that certain of these parts could be brought to the market as new medicines with the possibility for reduced side effects, greater potency or new indications. Sepracor was a pioneer in this area of drug development, identifying new, viable compounds. This strategy enabled Sepracor to establish itself initially by out-licensing the rights to a number of compounds to large, established pharmaceutical companies who developed and ultimately commercialized them. Some of these compounds have grown to become well-known brands in the pharmaceutical industry: ALLEGRA brand fexofenadine HCl, CLARINEX brand desloratadine and XYZAL /XUSALTM brand levocetirizine. ...

Number of Employees 2,400

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Peer Companies

• Johnson & Johnson
• Pfizer Inc.
• GlaxoSmithKline Plc.
• Novartis AG
• AstraZeneca Plc.
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