Perrigo, founded in 1887, manufactures and distributes affordable private-label and branded OTC self-care products, including store-brand equivalents of major OTC medicines, sold globally.
Perrigo Company plc is one of the world's largest over-the-counter self-care companies, manufacturing and distributing affordable OTC and healthcare products across global markets. The company's technical work spans pharmaceutical manufacturing, OTC product development, private label packaging and labeling, consumer self-care R&D, and prescription-to-OTC switch formulation - the process of reformulating established prescription medicines for sale without a prescription.
Its portfolio includes store-brand equivalents of major OTC products launched through such switches, among them versions of Advil, Tylenol, Flonase, Allegra, Prilosec and Nicorette. The company also produces household and medicinal items such as Epsom salts, sweet oil and bay rum, and added infant formula and animal health categories through acquisitions completed between 1997 and 2013. Manufacturing capability has been central to the business since its first facility opened in 1921.
Founded in 1887 in Allegan, Michigan, Perrigo pioneered the private label concept by imprinting store names on product labels at no additional cost to retailers. More than 135 years later, that model underpins a business oriented around affordable, high-quality self-care products and a stated mission of empowering consumers to prevent or treat self-managed conditions.
