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Alcon offices in Johns Creek, Georgia. Alcon Inc. (German: Alcon AG) is a Swiss-American pharmaceutical and medical device company specializing in eye care products. It has a paper headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland but its operational headquarters are in Fort Worth, Texas, United States, where it employs about 4,500 people.
The company Alcon Laboratories, maker of a popular brand of eye drops, recalled some of its nationwide stock on Dec. 23, after discovering a fungal contamination in one of its products.
The recalled products were sold at Publix, the chain said in a recall notice dated Dec. 20. What could happen if the eye drops are used? The recalled eye drops could cause an eye infection ...
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced a nationwide recall of a popular single-use eye drop on December 23. Alcon Laboratories, maker of Systane eyedrops, voluntarily recalled one lot of ...
Nestlé owned 100% of Alcon in 1978. In 2002 Nestlé sold 23.2% of its Alcon shares on the New York Stock Exchange. In 2008 Nestlé sold 24.8% of existing Alcon shares to the Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis. In 2010 Nestlé sold the remaining 52% of its Alcon shares to Novartis. Novartis paid a total of 39.1 bn USD.
Alcon: At the time Novartis bought Alcon, they had annual sales of $6.5 billion and a net income of $2 billion. [129] In April 2019, Novartis completed the spin-off of Alcon as a separate commercial entity. [73] Sandoz: As of 2013, Sandoz has been recognized as the world's second-largest generic drug company.