| 1929 |
Hanpei Sawai and Noyo Sawai established Sawai Pharmacy in Asahi-ku, Osaka. |
| 1948 |
Sawai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. incorporated in Asahi-ku, Osaka with a capital of 195,000 yen. |
| 1955 |
Tokyo Branch Office (now Tokyo Branch) opened. |
| 1961 |
Manufacturing lines for OTC drugs set up in the factory of head office. |
| 1962 |
Process patent on the extraction of garlic acquired and YORON P and ARIARON launched.
Ethical pharmaceutical market entered into.
Sapporo Sales Office (now Sapporo Branch), Tohoku Sales Office (now Sendai Branch), Nagoya Sales Office (now Nagoya Branch), and Fukuoka Sales Office (now Fukuoka Branch) opened. |
| 1965 |
Operations shifted from OTC drugs maker to ethical pharmaceutical maker. |
| 1968 |
Osaka Factory No. 2 (now Osaka Factory) completed. |
| 1974 |
Former company head office building completed and head office relocated. |
| 1979 |
Hiroshima Sales Office (now Hiroshima Branch) opened. |
| 1981 |
First stage of construction of Kyushu Factory completed (antibiotic production facilities). |
| 1983 |
Second stage of construction of Kyushu Factory completed (general medication and syrup production facilities). |
| 1984 |
Osaka Laboratory opened to expand and improve research facilities. |
| 1985 |
Medisa Shinyaku Inc. incorporated.
Third stage construction of Kyushu Factory completed (injectable production facilities). |
| 1987 |
First stage of construction of Medisa Shinyaku Inc. Kyushu Factory completed (general medication production and other facilities). |
| 1989 |
Fourth stage of construction of Kyushu Factory completed (expanded injectable production and other facilities). |
| 1990 |
Research & Development Center established to enhance research and development functions.
Osaka Branch opened. |
| 1991 |
Medisa Shinyaku Inc. set up as a wholly owned subsidiary. |
| 1992 |
Second stage of construction of Medisa Shinyaku Inc. Kyushu Factory completed (packaging facilities).
First stage of construction of Sanda Factory completed (general medication production facilities). |
| 1994 |
Former Pharmaceutical Research Center opened to improve pharmaceutical research. |
| 1995 |
Listed on the OTC stock market. |
| 1996 |
Third stage of construction of Medisa Shinyaku Inc. Kyushu Factory completed (Quality Control Analysis Laboratory and other facilities). |
| 1997 |
Newspaper advertising started.
Fourth and fifth stages of construction of Medisa Shinyaku Inc. Kyushu Factory completed (general medication production facilities and expanded automated warehousing). |
| 2000 |
Production facilities for injections expanded in Kyushu Factory.
Listed on the second section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange. |
| 2002 |
Fifth stage of construction of Kyushu Factory completed (oral sustained-release agent production and packaging facilities). |
| 2003 |
Listed on the first section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange. |
| 2004 |
New VIS (Visual Identity System) installed.
Nationwide TV advertising started. |
| 2005 |
Second stage of construction of Sanda Factory completed (expanded general medication production facilities and specialist medication production facilities).
Kanto Factory transferred from Nihon Schering K.K. |
| 2006 |
Sumitomo Corporation Group became an investor in Medisa Shinyaku Inc.
Head office and Research laboratories combined, and new premises completed. Relocated to current premises.
Became majority shareholder in Kaken Shoyaku Inc. and made the company into a subsidiary. |
| 2007 |
New building for syringe production established in Kanto Factory.
Kumamoto Sales Office and Okayama Sales Office opened. |
| 2008 |
Sixth stage of construction of Medisa Shinyaku Inc. Kyushu Factory completed (expanded oral solid medication production and other facilities).
Hiroyuki Sawai appointed to chairman and Mitsuo Sawai appointed to president. |
| 2009 |
Third stage of construction of Sanda Factory completed (expanded general medication production facilities).
Sales Promotion Department relocated to Tokyo.
Saitama Branch opened. Moved to system of 8 branches and 11 sales offices nationwide.
Pharmaceutical Technology Center opened. |
