Waymade PLC
Pharmaceutical ManufacturingEngland, United Kingdom51-200 Employees
Waymade Plc is a Basildon, England-based pharmaceutical manufacturing company employing 51-200 people. It engages in licensing, sale, and marketing of generic pharmaceutical products under the Sovereign Pharmaceutical brand to retail pharmacies, hospitals, and wholesalers. The business traces its origins to Vijay and Bhikhu Patel, who started as a single chemist shop in Essex and expanded into a chain of chemist shops before diversifying into medicines supply for its own stores, hospitals, and wholesalers; Waymade Healthcare was founded in 1984. In 2003, a separate international company, Amdipharm, was established to market products across Europe, the Middle and Far East, Australia, New Zealand, and Latin America, and in October 2012 it was acquired by a Private Equity Group. The group also operates Waymade Capital, a family office, and formed Atnahs in November 2013 to manage in-licensing and sale of branded pharmaceuticals in 27 countries, with plans to expand product ranges and territories.