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PLIVA ranked in the top 10 of this year’s Ranking of Ideal Employers in the sphere of pure and natural sciences. The ranking was based on the Polish Student Survey – a survey on the career expectations of young Poles – conducted by Universum.
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n this year’s poll, nearly 10,000 students were surveyed from all over the country. The list of assessed employers covered 130 companies. In the category of pure and natural sciences, PLIVA came in ninth. Universum, an international firm specialising in employer brand-building, has conducted analogous research in 30 other European countries. PLIVA is a European manufacturer of generic drugs. It belongs to the Barr Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a global pharmaceutical company, operating in over 30 countries all over the world. The Barr group specialises in development, production, and sale of generic and original drugs, biopharmaceuticals, and active pharmaceutical ingredients (API). Founded in 1921, PLIVA is one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in Eastern Europe and has its seat in Zagreb, Croatia. The company offers over 550 products, available on the markets in Croatia, Czech Republic, Germany, Poland, and Russia. The wide range of products includes: varied dosages of drugs in the form of tablets, capsules, injections, creams and ointments, OTC drugs, cytostatics, and API. PLIVA is also becoming an important participant in the generic biopharmaceuticals market. In Poland, PLIVA is the second largest pharmaceutical investor, and one of the largest producers of original and generic drugs of supreme quality, confirmed by prestigious certificates of FDA and MHRA, allowing export to the United States and Western Europe. PLIVA Kraków is a subsidiary of PLIVA d.d. It offers about 300 preparations. Its main products include anti-infection drugs, used in cardiology, pain therapy, central nervous system diseases, and anti-cancer drugs.
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