Menarini

Not to be confused with Menarini, an Italian bus brand.
A. Menarini Industrie Farmaceutiche Riunite
Company typeLimited liability company
IndustryPharmaceutical
Health care and diagnostics[1]
Founded1886 in Naples
FounderArchimede Menarini
Headquarters
Florence
,
Italy
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Revenue€ 3,8 billion[5]
Number of employees
17,650 (2020)[5]
ParentUnilab Group
Websitehttps://www.menarini.com/

The Menarini Group is an Italian pharmaceutical company. Its headquarters is in Florence, Tuscany, and it has three divisions: Menarini Ricerche, Menarini Biotech, and Menarini Diagnostics. It develops pharmacological solutions for cardiovascular diseases, oncology, pain/inflammation, asthma and anti-infectives. Menarini's research activities are carried out through Menarini Ricerche, which deals with all R&D activities, from the creation of new projects to drug registration. Its Menarini Biotech follows the creation of a biotechnological drug from the very early stages of research, through to the pilot scale and up to industrial production. The Group's Menarini Diagnostics division is a healthcare company with a worldwide network of affiliates partners and distributors focused on diabetes, haematology, clinical chemistry, urinalysis, and immunology. In 2020, the company had 17,650 employees worldwide.[6]

Massimiliana Landini Aleotti and her three children inherited the company, valued at US$11.6 billion, following the death of her husband in May 2014.[7]

Menarini developed a rapid COVID-19 test amid the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy, capable of giving a result in just 20 minutes.[8]

  1. ^ "Menarini Diagnostics lancia il test molecolare che distingue il Covid-19 da influenza in 20 minuti".
  2. ^ "Gruppo Menarini: "Siamo un'azienda orgogliosamente italiana, vogliamo contribuire al rilancio del Paese"". 6 June 2020.
  3. ^ "Menarini: Elcin Barker Ergun Group CEO". 14 December 2020.
  4. ^ "Carlo Colombini entra nel Cda del Gruppo Menarini - Salute & Benessere". 29 October 2018.
  5. ^ a b "Vaccini, "Menarini e le altre big pronte a un patto globale per produrre più dosi"". 6 March 2021.
  6. ^ "Menarini investe 150 mln per nuovo stabilimento produttivo in Italia". adnkronos.
  7. ^ "Massimiliana Landini Aleotti". Forbes. Retrieved 1 February 2016.
  8. ^ "Coronavirus: da Menarini kit per test rapidi in 20 minuti". ANSA. 2 April 2020.