Starwin Products Ghana was a Ghanaian

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manufacturer. It was the first pharmaceutical company to be listed on the Ghana Stock Exchange. It was a component of the

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. The company produced 8 brand name products.

History

Starwin began as the Ghana branch of Sterling Products International in 1960. In 1976, under the Ghanaian government's indigenization program, the company sold 50% of its

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to entrepreneurs in Ghana. In 1987, Sterling, the original company, was bought by

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and Starwin Products was born. On January 13, 2004 Starwin became a

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and in December 2004 the company was listed on the Ghana Stock Exchange. In January 2020, Starwin Products Limited and two other domestic pharmaceutical companies, Dannex Limited and Ayrton Drug Manufacturing Limited, had already merged and listed on the Ghana Stock Exchange as

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Operations

The company's product line included Rapinol, Asmadrin, Painoff, Paraking,

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and liver salts.

References

External links

DAS Pharma official homepageStarwin Products report from Gold Coast Securities - HTML versionSAS Ghana Brokerage Listings PageStarwin Products at Alacrastore
Pharmaceutical companies of Ghana Companies listed on the Ghana Stock Exchange Pharmaceutical companies established in 1960 Manufacturing companies based in Accra Ghanaian brands {{Ghana-stub