Adcock-ingram Limited - O.ADC- Profile

Adcock-Ingram Limited. Adcock-Ingram Limited, first listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange in 1949, develops, manufactures and distributes over the counter medicines, branded prescription pharmaceuticals and generics, critical care hospital products and consumer personal care toiletry & household products. The group is also active in the vision care market, providing prescription lenses, spectacle frames and ophthalmic instruments. The group merged on 1st May 1996 with The Premier Pharmaceutical Company Ltd (Prempharm). Fiscal 1997 is the first full year's reporting on the new merged entity. The group acquired Sterilab Services on 1 July 1999 and Lagap Pharmaceuticals Limited on 1 October 1999.