Zeneca
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Key facts
- Company.name
- Zeneca Group PLC
- Company.logo
- Zeneca logo.svg
- Company.logo_size
- 170px
- Company.trading_name
- Zeneca
- Company.type
- Public limited company
- Company.fate
- Merged with Astra AB
- Company.successor
- AstraZeneca
- Company.foundation
- 1993
- Company.location
- London, UK
- Company.products
- Pharmaceutical products
- Company.industry
- Pharmaceutical
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- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 1999-00-00
- inception
- 1993-00-00
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Zeneca Group PLC, trading as Zeneca, was a British multinational pharmaceutical company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It was formed in June 1993 by the demerger of the pharmaceuticals and agrochemicals businesses of Imperial Chemical Industries into a separate company listed on the London Stock Exchange.
In 1999, Zeneca and the Sweden-based pharmaceutical company Astra AB merged to form AstraZeneca plc. Zeneca shareholders received 53.5% of the shares, while Astra shareholders received the remaining 46.5%.
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