EMS
Pharmaceutical ManufacturingSão Paulo, Brazil10001+ Employees
EMS is a Brazilian pharmaceutical manufacturer headquartered in Hortolândia, São Paulo, with production facilities in Hortolândia, Manaus, Brasília and Jaguariúna and a workforce of over 10,000 employees. It is 100% domestically capitalized and part of Grupo NC, one of Brazil's largest conglomerates, and has led the Brazilian pharmaceutical market for 19 consecutive years, with leadership in generics since 2013. EMS operates across Prescription Medical, Generics, Brands, OTC and Hospital sectors, manufacturing medicines for nearly all medical specialties. The company maintains a significant R&D footprint, including a Brazil-based center described as the most modern in Latin America and the MonteResearch lab in Italy, with focus areas spanning incremental innovation, high-complexity generics, biotechnology via Bionovis, and disruptive innovation via Brace Pharma in the United States, and its Vero Biotech unit in Atlanta has obtained FDA clearance for its first revolutionary product. EMS exports to more than 40 countries and engages in social responsibility initiatives, including a 2017 partnership with the World Health Organization to donate medicine to eradicate bouba, a cause EMS is described as the only pharmaceutical company to have embraced.