Omega Pharma

Omega Pharma
Omega Pharma N.V.
Type Naamloze vennootschap
Traded as EuronextOME
Industry Pharmaceuticals
Founded 1987
Headquarters Nazareth, Belgium
Key people Marc Coucke (CEO), Lucas Laureys (Chairman)
Products Prescription-free medicines and healthcare products
Revenue €878.7 million (2010)[1]
Operating income €107.5 million (2010)[1]
Profit €69.5 million (2010)[1]
Total assets €1.443 billion (end 2010)[1]
Total equity €718.3 million (end 2010)[1]
Employees 2,130 (end 2010)[1]
Website www.omega-pharma.be

Omega Pharma is a Belgian Pharmaceutical company, founded in 1987 by Marc Coucke (born 1965) and Yvan Vindevogel, both former Pharmacy students at the Ghent University.

The company is quoted at Euronext Brussels and makes part of the BEL20 index.

Arseus

At the occasion of the annual shareholders meeting of June 6th 2006; Omega Pharma announced the name under which its Professional Health division will henceforward operate: Arseus. Simultaneously, the management team of Arseus was presented. The legal structure of the entities in this division has been largely prepared in the mean time, so that the project to make Arseus an autonomous company is on schedule. In the framework of this project, it is expected that Arseus, as an autonomous company, will become stock-listed by 2008.

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f "Annual Report 2010". Omega Pharma. http://omega-pharma.be.res7.mijnpreview.com/uploads/700/Omega%20Pharma%202010%20annual%20report%20compl.pdf. Retrieved 22 April 2011. 

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