- CEO
- Hoi Shan Tsoi
- Full Time Employees
- 18,000
- Sector
- Healthcare
- Industry
- Drug Manufacturers - Specialty & Generic
- Address
- 6 Fuk Wang Street Yuen Long Hong Kong
- IPO Date
- Nov 3, 2014
- Business
- The United Laboratories International Holdings Limited (3933.HK), founded in 1990 and headquartered in Yuen Long, Hong Kong, operates as a leading integrated pharmaceutical company in China, primarily engaged in the research, development, production, and sale of pharmaceuticals across intermediate products, bulk medicines, and finished products; it also produces veterinary drugs, empty capsule casings, organic fertilizers, and medical devices. The company maintains seven production bases supporting a vertically integrated model that spans antibiotics, biopharmaceuticals, and animal healthcare products, including APIs, non-antibiotics finished products such as antibiotics and capsule casings, and emerging lines in endocrine, metabolism, autoimmunity, anti-infection, and ophthalmology therapies; its sales networks reach nearly 80 countries and regions, including China (including Hong Kong), Europe, India, other Asian regions, South America, the Middle East, and beyond. Targeting human and animal health markets with over 100 R&D projects and more than 100 patents, the group recently expanded into big health via a new division offering dietary supplements, healthcare foods, nutritional supplements, medical devices, and medical aesthetic skincare products across e-commerce, pharmacy chains, and health channels.
In recent developments, the company entered a strategic partnership in March 2024 with New Zealand's Riverland Foods Ltd. to introduce high-end prescription pet food into China and signed a comprehensive cooperation agreement with Sinopharm Group Co., Ltd. to enhance collaborations across industrial, supply, and innovation chains; it secured six overseas registrations for animal healthcare preparations and won a tender for human insulin procurement from Brazil's Ministry of Health. On March 24, 2025, its wholly-owned subsidiary The United Bio-Technology (Hengqin) Co., Ltd. finalized an exclusive license agreement with Novo Nordisk A/S for the self-developed Class 1 innovative drug UBT251 Injection, a GLP-1/GIP/glucagon triple receptor agonist approved for clinical trials in China and the United States targeting obesity, type 2 diabetes, and other cardiometabolic indications. The group increased R&D investment by 21.9% to RMB985.5 million in 2024, advancing eight Class 1 drugs into clinical stages and progressing bulk medicine and animal healthcare production capacity expansions, while reporting steady revenue of RMB13.76 billion for the year.