Cléa Rosenfeld

Shire is a global specialty pharmaceutical company marketing products to defined customer groups (specialist doctors). Sales and marketing is a core Shire competence. Shire combines investment in product development with careful attention to risk management. Shire currently focuses on three therapeutic areas - central nervous system disorders (CNS), gastrointestinal (GI) and renal diseases. Shire has particular expertise in ADHD as a result of its development and marketing of the leading brand in the US market, ADDERALL and the new once a day version, ADDERALL XR. The group has a sales and marketing infrastructure with a broad portfolio of products targeting the US, Canada, UK, Republic of Ireland, France, Germany, Italy and Spain. Shire covers other significant pharmaceutical markets indirectly through distributors. They have already appointed such distributors including, Australia, Denmark, Finland, Hong Kong, Israel, Malaysia, Norway, Philippines, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea and Thailand. It is founded in 1986

Shire Plc is a biopharmaceutical company, which engages in the research, development, licensing, manufacturing, marketing, distribution, and sale of medicines. Its products include adderall, advate, adynovate, agrylin, antithrombin 3, aralast, bebulin, buccolam, feiba, firazyr, and foznol. The company was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland.