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Industry
  
Pharmaceuticals

Headquarters
  
United Kingdom

Founded
  
1969

Website
  
www.norbrook.com

CEO
  
Liam Nagle (1 Feb 2015–)

Type of business
  
Limited company

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Key people
  
Lord Ballyedmond Founding CEO & Chairman

Founder
  
Edward Haughey, Baron Ballyedmond

Norbrook is a United Kingdom-based pharmaceutical company. It was founded in 1969 by Lord Ballyedmond as Norbrook Laboratories Ltd in Northern Ireland. In 1970, Norbrook began manufacturing of veterinary pharmaceuticals. In 2011 the Norbrook Group was listed by the Belfast Telegraph in its Top 100 Companies list as being in position 28

Contents

Norbrook manufactures several pharmaceutical drugs, the most well-known of which are the antibiotic drugs Noroclav and Betamox, NSAIDs such as Carprieve, Loxicom and Flunixin.

Veterinary products

  • Closamectin – Closamectin is a pioneer drug developed by Norbrook for the treatment of fluke, worms and other external parasites.
  • Carprieve – A non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) for the treatment of osteoarthritis in dogs.
  • Loxicom oral Suspension – A non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) for the treatment of pain in cats and dogs.
  • Loxicom Injectable – A non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) for the treatment of pain in cats and dogs, scour in cattle, musculo-skeletal and locomotary conditions in horses and pigs.
  • Noroclav
  • Flunixin – A non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) used in horses, cattle and swine in different parts of the world.
  • Peptizole - First generic omeprazole for Equine gastric ulcer syndrome in the UK.
  • Vetofol

    • Awards

  • 1987 Norbrook receives its first Queens Award for Export
  • 2002 Norbrook receives the Queens Award for Export Achievement for the fourth time
  • 2011 Norbrook receives the Queens Award for Enterprise
  • Norbrook is the only company in the world which is licensed by the United States Food and Drugs Administration to manufacture sterile injections for veterinary use outside the USA and import them for sale in USA territory.

    • References

    Norbrook Group Wikipedia
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