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Perrigo name new head of its combined UK and Ireland business

pharmafile | April 26, 2016 | Appointment | Sales and Marketing Ireland, Perrigo, UK, lister, neil, new head 

Perrigo has named Neil Lister as the head of its newly-combined UK and Ireland business.

The manufacturer and distributor of over-the-counter and prescription pharmaceuticals, nutritional products and active pharmaceutical ingredients will now see Dublin-based Lister lead this geographical division.

Lister joined Perrigo’s branded consumer healthcare division, Omega Pharma, as general manager of the UK and Ireland in 2011 and will now take up the role of vice president, managing director of the UK and Ireland at Perrigo.

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He brings almost 20 years of business management to the role, having spent 12 years at Procter & Gamble in senior positions such as head of pharmacy channel, oral care Western Europe. His new role will see Lister responsible for leading both the Omega Pharma organisation and Perrigo’s consumer healthcare and prescription pharmaceutical business.

He says: “I am elated to be taking on this remit and have big ambitions to combine the agile way of working that made Omega Pharma’s UK business so successful, with the might of Perrigo.”

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