Shionogi's policy is to strive constantly to provide medicine of the best possible kind essential for the protection of the health of the people. Our mission, based on this policy, as a research-driven pharmaceutical company, is to deliver pharmaceuticals that offer the greatest possible level of satisfaction to patients, their families, and healthcare providers and that improve quality of life for patients and their families worldwide. To achieve the above goal, we are constantly engaged in research, development, manufacturing, and marketing activities, with a primary focus on prescription drugs, OTC drug and diagnostics. The 3rd medium-term business plan stared in April 2010 was established as concrete plan to achieve further growth globally over the 5 years under our new slogan ”SONG for the Real Growth”, Refer to the details of The 3rd medium-term business plan