Endo became Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. as a result of a management buyout from DuPont Merck in 1997. Endo is a specialty pharmaceutical company engaged in the research, development, sale and marketing of prescription pharmaceuticals used primarily to treat and manage pain. A public company is a company owned by the public rather than by relatively few individuals. ... The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), nicknamed the Big Board, is a New York City-based stock exchange. ... Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania is a small township 30 miles southwest of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in Delaware County. ... Pharmacology (in Greek: pharmacon is drug, and logos is science) is the study of how chemical substances interfere with living systems. ... A website (or Web site) is a collection of web pages, typically common to a particular domain name or subdomain on the World Wide Web on the Internet. ... A management buyout (MBO) is a form of acquisition where a companys existing managers buy or acquire a large part of the company. ... Pharmacology (in Greek: pharmacon is drug, and logos is science) is the study of how chemical substances interfere with living systems. ...

Personnel

• Chief financial officer: Charles A. Rowland Jr. (as of December 2006, replacing Jeff Black) ^[1]
• The company's sales force numbers 590 ^[1]

The Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of a company is the corporate officer primarily responsible for managing the financial risks of a business. ...

Products^[2]

• Amantadine (Symmetrel®)
• Carbidopa with levodopa (Carbidopa/Levodopa USP)
• Frovatriptan (Frova®)
• Hydrocodone with acetominophen (Zydone®)
• Hydrocodone with homatropine (Hycodan®)
• Lidocaine (Lidoderm®)
  • Lidocaine with tetracaine (Synera®)
• Molindone (Moban®)
• Morphine (DepoDur®)
• Oxycodone with acetominophen (Percocet®, Endocet®)
• Oxycodone with aspirin (Percodan®)
• Oxymorphone (Numorphan®)

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References

1. ^a b Staff. "Endo Pharmaceuticals names new CFO", Delaware News Journal, December 6, 2006. Retrieved on 2006-12-06.
2. ^{^}  Product Listing. Endo Pharmaceuticals (2006). Retrieved on 2006-12-06.