Perrigo (NYSE: PRGO) is a publicly listed company headquartered in Dublin, Ireland that owns 3 consumer brands across 2 categories and makes and sells 1 consumer brand under licence without owning the name, and has 1 recorded transaction.[1][2]
Perrigo was founded in Michigan in 1887 and built its business on making store-brand versions of over-the-counter medicines, so its products are sold under supermarket and pharmacy labels rather than its own name. It has more recently bought consumer brands to sit alongside that business.
What Perrigo's annual report says about its business
Read from Perrigo's latest annual filing[1]. Each line gives the sentence the filing uses, copied word for word.
Acquisitions and disposals named in the filing
Acquired: Elan Corporation, plc (December 18, 2013). Perrigo Company plc was incorporated under the laws of Ireland on June 28, 2013 and became the successor registrant of Perrigo Company, a Michigan corporation, on December 18, 2013 in connection with the acquisition of Elan Corporation, plc ("Elan").
Sold or exited: Rare Diseases Business; Rx business. In the case of divestitures, including the disposition of the Rare Diseases Business and the separation of the Rx business, we may face difficulty in effectively transferring contracts, obligations, facilities, and personnel to the purchaser, while minimizing continued exposure to risks and liabilities of the divested business.
Perrigo in numbers
Perrigo owns 3 consumer brands tracked here across 2 top-level categories; the largest is consumer health with 2 brands.[1]
1 recorded acquisitions, 1 of them completed since 2015; disclosed US-dollar deal values total $61.5 million.
3 of its brands originated outside Ireland.
Perrigo financial history
Headline figures from Perrigo's annual reports filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, in USD as reported, fiscal years ending 2020–2025.
Revenue moved from $4.09bn to $4.25bn, an average of 0.8% a year (calculated).
Source: SEC XBRL company facts. A dash means the company did not report that line in a form we could read. Figures for a year can be restated in a later filing; the latest filing's number is shown.
Who owns the shares of Perrigo
Holders of more than 5% of the voting shares, as listed in Perrigo's proxy statement filed 20 March 2026. Shareholdings change daily; this is the position the filing reports.
Holder
Shares
Share of class
T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc.
16,920,302
12.3%
BlackRock, Inc.
15,941,915
11.6%
The Vanguard Group
14,994,309
10.9%
Fuller & Thaler Asset Management, Inc.
7,824,759
5.7%
Neuberger Berman Group LLC
7,535,309
5.5%
State Street Corporation
7,340,323
5.3%
Dimensional Fund Advisors LP
6,961,695
5.1%
Everything Perrigo owns
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
Perrigo bought the branded over-the-counter rights to Prevacid 24HR from GlaxoSmithKline for $61.5 million in cash, capitalising $61.7 million including closing costs as a brand intangible and amortising it over twenty years. What changed hands was the right to sell the brand over the counter rather than the underlying drug, which is how most of Perrigo's branded portfolio has been assembled.
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