Company Profile
Perrigo Company
Company Overview
Perrigo Company is a leading global healthcare supplier that develops, manufactures and distributes over-the-counter (OTC) and prescription pharmaceuticals, nutritional products, active pharmaceutical ingredients (API) and consumer products. We are the world's largest manufacturer of OTC pharmaceutical products for the store brand market. Our primary markets and locations of manufacturing facilities are the United States, Israel, Mexico and the United Kingdom.
At Perrigo, your job will mean more. You will join a team that is as driven and excited as you are about making healthcare products more affordable around the globe. Our products improve our consumer’s quality of life – let Perrigo improve the quality of your career.
Company History
In 1887 Luther Perrigo, the proprietor of a general store and apple-drying business, had the idea to package and distribute patented medicines and household items for country stores. Located in Allegan, Michigan, the L. Perrigo Company enjoyed steady growth, and by the early 1920s as many as 50 Perrigo salesmen were calling on rural stores throughout the Midwest. The company then developed the “private label” concept as a way to build customer loyalty. For no additional cost, Perrigo offered to imprint the individual store’s name on the labels for epsom salts, sweet oil, bay rum and dozens of other “wets and drys” stocked in general stores of that era.
In the mid-1930s, Perrigo landed its first, large private-label customer, the K & W group, a buying organization that grew into the People’s Drug Store chain. At about the same time, Perrigo began its manufacturing operation, laying a strong foundation for rapid future growth.
Over the past 25 years national and regional supermarket, drug store and mass merchandise retail chains experienced tremendous growth. As retailers grew, so did their presence in the store-brand arena, as they strove to build customer loyalty with products sold under their own company labels, just as Luther Perrigo surmised they would. Perrigo grew as well, acquiring several businesses throughout the world to augment its position in the store-brand industry.
The company expanded its product portfolio to include generic prescription pharmaceuticals, creating a more diversified health-care company. To expedite the growth of the generics business, in March 2005 Perrigo acquired Agis Industries, adding their products, pipeline and proprietary technologies to our consumer health-care business.