Case Study: Allergan PLC

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Introduction Allergan PLC, is a global pharmaceutical company that concentrates on the central nervous system, eye care, medical aesthetics and dermatology, gastroenterology, women 's health, urology, and anti-infective therapeutic area. Allergan PLC is the manufacturer for many pharmaceutical products including, BOTOX, Juvederm, Linzess, Namenda, Restasis, Latisee, Teflaro and Lo Loestrin Fe, just to name a few. Allergan PLC, with their headquarters in Dublin, Republic of Ireland, was formed on February 18, 2015, the year that Actavis, another global pharmaceutical company which formed on March 1984, bought Botox for 66 billion dollars and changed its name to Allergan PLC. The neuromodulator Botox is the company’s largest single product which …show more content…

For years, Allergan PLC has managed their corporate social responsibility, well. Its extensive CSR strategy, which focuses on corporate citizenship, leveraging science and innovation to make a positive impact is a smart strategy because their main area of focus is in energy use, environmental protection and employee health and safety. Allergan PLC is also one of only a handful of pharmaceutical companies that is a part of United Nations Global Compact (UNGC), which is the world’s largest corporate sustainability initiative, that sets guidelines and principles on human rights, labor, environment and anti-corruption and societal goals. Allergan PLC is committed to giving back and providing human and financial resources to non-profit organizations that helps and supports society by making a difference assisting, either locally, regionally, nationally or internationally, as long as the non-profit organization is aligned with the Allergan PLC core business and what they stand for. These organizations include and not limited to, local and reginal chambers of commerce, non-profit organizations, disaster relief organizations, sports and recreations organizations and organizations that drive social causes that are aligned with Allergan PLC’s core …show more content…

They realized that they were creating too much waste and that was not good for the environment nor economically, so they created a three-part reduction strategy. The first step was to reduce or eliminate the amount of materials that were becoming waste, by locating the waste streams in each facility and creating the option to either eliminate them, reuse them or reduce using it. The second step was to identify the cause for the rejected products; the products were rejected due to filling level defects and cap defect. The third step was to incorporate waste prevention into the design phase of the products. By creating and following these steps, Allergan has become an environmental friendly company by employing green processes, materials, practices, equipment’s and technologies. Due to these action, Allergan became an ENERGY STAR partner in 1996 and has since been awarded the ENERGY STAR six

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