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Company Overview

Business Description

Sector
Health Care
Industry
Pharmaceuticals
Headquarters
Japan JP
Employees
13 643
IPO date
May 16, 1949

Astellas Pharma is a Japanese drug company that discovers, develops, makes, and sells prescription medicines. Its main products treat areas such as urology, transplant medicine, immunology, cancer, and eye disease. The company spends heavily on research and then brings branded drugs through testing, approval, manufacturing, and distribution.

Its main customers are doctors, hospitals, pharmacies, and healthcare systems that prescribe or buy medicines for patients. Astellas makes money mostly by selling prescription drugs, along with income from licensing and partnership deals when it shares technology or rights to certain medicines with other drugmakers.

What makes Astellas different is that it sits in the high-value part of the pharmaceutical chain: it turns scientific research into approved medicines for specific diseases. That means its business depends less on high-volume commodity sales and more on a smaller number of branded treatments that are protected by patents and supported by medical data.

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Address
2-5-1, Nihombashihon-cho
Chuo-Ku, Tokyo-To
Japan

Business Segments

Prescription medicines

Astellas develops and sells branded prescription drugs for use in hospitals, clinics, and pharmacies, with products in urology, oncology, immunology and transplant care, and eye care.

Customers and revenue model

Management

Mr. Naoki Okamura BSc

President, CEO & Director

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Mr. Atsushi Kitamura

Senior Executive Officer & CFO

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Nobue Yasuda

General Manager of Finance & Accounting Department

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Mr. Yoshitsugu Shitaka Ph.D.

Chief Scientific Officer & Senior Managing Executive Officer

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Mr. Katsuyoshi Sugita

Chief People Officer, Chief Ethics & Compliance Officer, EVP of HR and Representative Director

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Mr. Stig Ogata

Vice President of Corporate Communications

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Ms. Tatjana Dragovic

Senior VP and Head of Ethics & Compliance

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Mr. Nobuaki Tanaka

President of Japan Commercial & Senior Corporate Executive

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Jun Kono

Senior Executive Officer & Head of Japan Commercial

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Hideki Shima

Chief Manufacturing Officer & Senior Corporate Executive

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