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As a global biopharmaceutical company, our activities touch many people’s lives

Key Facts

AstraZeneca is a global, innovation-driven, integrated biopharmaceutical company.

We discover, develop, manufacture and market prescription medicines for six important areas of healthcare, which include some of the world’s most serious illnesses: cancer, cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, infection, neuroscience, and respiratory and inflammation.

We employ over 61,000 people (46% in Europe, 24% in the North America, 7% in Latin America and 24% in Asia, Africa and Australasia).

Pharma: A force for good?

I am proud of my industry and what it has achieved. It will not be easy to maintain that same progress in the next fifty years; the world is a more complex and more challenging place. But you should not doubt our commitment to delivering sustainable value to our shareholders and to society as a whole.

David Brennan, CEO