Elli Lily And Company

Eli Lilly and Company is an American pharmaceutical company headquartered

in Indianapolis, Indiana, with offices in 18 countries. Its products are sold in
approximately 125 countries. The company was founded in 1876 by, and named
after, Col. Eli Lilly, a pharmaceutical chemist and veteran of the American Civil
War.
Lilly's notable achievements include being the first company to mass-produce
the polio vaccine developed by Jonas Salk, and insulin. It was one of the
first pharmaceutical companies to produce human insulin using recombinant
DNA including Humulin (insulin medication), Humalog (insulin lispro), and the first
approved bio similar insulin product in the US, Basaglar (insulin glargine).
Lilly is currently the largest manufacturer of psychiatric medications and
produces Prozac (fluoxetine), Dolophine (methadone), Cymbalta (duloxetine),
and Zyprexa (olanzapine).
The company is ranked 123rd on the 2019 Fortune 500. It is ranked 221st on
the Forbes Global 2000 list of the largest public companies in the world and
252nd on the Forbes list of America's Best Employers.
Eli Lilly is a full member of the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of
America[7]and the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and
Associations (EFPIA).
As of 1997, it was the largest corporation and the largest charitable benefactor in
Indiana.