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Recipharm company history timeline

1995

In March 1995, Thomas Eldered and Lars Backsell conducted a management buyout of a Pharmacia solid dose tablet manufacturing facility in Årsta, Stockholm and formed the company “Recip”. The facility had 130 employees and a turnover of SEK 220 million.

1997

In 1997, Recip was believed to be the first pharmaceutical company in the world to certify its entire operations according to the ISO 14001 environmental management system.

1998

From 1998, the company began to grow by acquiring facilities in Sweden.

2001

The brand name “Recipharm” was established in 2001 for the growing contract manufacturing part of Recip's business.

2007

In 2007, the Recip part of the business and the company's own portfolio were divested to Meda.

2014

Recipharm became a public listed company on Nasdaq Stockholm in 2014.

2020

In 2020, Recipharm completed its largest acquisition to date.

2021

In February 2021, Private equity firm EQT acquired Recipharm for $2.1 billion.

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Founded
1995
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Headquarters
Morrisville, NC
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Founders
Lars Backsell,Thomas Eldered
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