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Is Stada Laying The Ground For Future Sale With Russia Business Spin Off?

Stada CEO Peter Goldschmidt Offers Further Comment On Much-Speculated Sale

 
• By Dean Rudge

With the war in Ukraine now in its third gruelling year, Stada has announced that it last year siphoned off its Russian interests to its parent company Nidda in a non-cash deal.

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Privately-held STADA Arzneimittel AG has disclosed that it last year jettisoned its Nizhpharm operation in Russia to a subsidiary of its parent company Nidda, in a move the German firm said would make the Russian units “more flexible and adaptable to the rapidly changing business and regulatory environment,” chiefly amid the “geopolitical uncertainties” stemming from the war in Ukraine.

In addition to AO Nizhpharm, Stada’s Russian operation includes its shareholdings in OOO Aqualor and OOO Hemofarm, as

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