Eli Lilly and Company - LLY
Eli Lilly and Company (LLY) is an American pharmaceutical company with locations in 18 countries and a headquarters in Indianapolis, Indiana. It sells its goods in over 125 countries. Colonel Eli Lilly, a pharmaceutical chemist and American Civil War veteran, started the corporation in 1876.
Lilly's major accomplishments include becoming the first company to mass-produce Jonas Salk's polio vaccine and insulin. It was one of the first pharmaceutical companies to use recombinant DNA to make human insulin, including Humulin (insulin medicine), Humalog (insulin lispro), and Basaglar, the first biosimilar insulin product licensed in the United States (insulin glargine). Lilly produces all of Prozac (fluoxetine), Dolophine (methadone), Cymbalta (duloxetine), and Zyprexa, which are all produced by Lilly, which is presently the largest maker of psychiatric drugs (olanzapine).
In the 2019 Fortune 500, the company is ranked 123rd. It is ranked 221st on Forbes' Global 2000 list of the world's largest public firms and 252nd on Forbes' America's Best Employers list.
Country: USA
Market Cap Value: $208.99 Billion
Website: https://www.lilly.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/elilillyandco
