Shire (pharmaceutical company) | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-01-16

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00:02:01 1 History
00:02:10 1.1 Early history
00:03:05 1.2 2000 to 2009
00:04:07 1.3 2010 onwards
00:07:26 1.3.1 Aborted AbbVie takeover
00:08:43 1.3.2 Takeda takeover
00:10:57 1.4 Acquisition history
00:11:06 2 Products
00:11:24 2.1 Licences &amp; Royalties
00:11:48 3 Corporate leadership
00:12:22 4 See also



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Shire Plc was a Jersey-registered, Irish-headquartered global specialty biopharmaceutical company. Originating in the United Kingdom with an operational base in the United States, its brands and products included Vyvanse, Lialda, and Adderall XR. Shire had its primary listing on the London Stock Exchange. Shire has a secondary listing on NASDAQ. As of January 8th, 2019, Shire was acquired by Takeda Pharmaceuticals Ltd of Japan.
Shire was a global biotechnology company focused on serving people with rare diseases and other highly specialized conditions. The company's products were available in more than 100 countries across core therapeutic areas including Hematology, Immunology, Neuroscience, Lysosomal Storage Disorders, Gastrointestinal / Internal Medicine / Endocrine and Hereditary Angioedema; a growing franchise in Oncology; and an emerging, innovative pipeline in Ophthalmics. Shire was acquired by Takeda Pharmaceuticals in 2019.
The original corporate headquarters was located in Basingstoke, Hampshire, England. Main offices are located in Dublin, Ireland, the United States in Cambridge, Massachusetts and Chicago, Illinois and in Zug, Switzerland. In addition, Shire owns manufacturing sites in Lexington, Massachusetts, and Social Circle, Georgia. Shire’s headquarters in Lexington, MA will be integrated with Takeda’s new U.S. headquarters, which is being relocated from Deerfield, IL to the Boston area, while the 2018 plant in Social Circle is a 24-hours plasma-based manufacturer of immune-related substances.