About Novo Nordisk A/S Common Stock
Novo Nordisk A/S is a Danish multinational pharmaceutical company headquartered in Bagsværd. Novo Nordisk is controlled by majority shareholder Novo Holdings A/S which holds approximately 28.1% of its shares and a majority of its voting shares. Novo Nordisk manufactures and markets pharmaceutical products and services, specifically diabetes and obesity medications and devices. Novo Nordisk employs more than 48,000 people globally, and markets its products in 168 countries. The corporation was created in 1989, through a merger of two Danish companies, which date back to the 1920s.