Teva Pharmaceutical Loses Third of Its Value In Two Days
Trade at the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange opened Sunday with a sharp downturn, with Teva Pharmaceutical’s shares dropping by 18% and dragging the leading indices with it.
Trade at the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange opened Sunday with a sharp downturn, with Teva Pharmaceutical’s shares dropping by 18% and dragging the leading indices with it.
The world’s biggest maker of generic drugs said Thursday that it will cut 7,000 jobs by year’s end, close or sell 15 factories over the next two years, and quit operations in 45 countries by the end of 2017.
The police’s national fraud unit has launched an investigation into suspicions that Teva Pharmaceutical Industries bribed officials abroad a month and a half after the company settled a similar case in the United States.
Erez Vigodman, the Chief Executive Officer of the Israeli generic drugmaker giant Teva Pharmaceutical Industries stepped down effective immediately on Monday, the company said.
The Israeli pharmaceutical giant Teva has reportedly been in the midst of an internal investigation into bribery allegations that the company has been bribing Romanian healthcare workers into prescribing its medication.