Company Profile

Worldwide Pharmaceuticals

• Founded 1975, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

• 22,000 employees worldwide

• Principal Products:

o Orfin, a blood pressure drug

o Manfer, a drug to treat neuropathy, often associated with diabetes

• Company Motto: “Dum inter homines sumus, colamus humanitatem” (Seneca)

Worldwide Pharmaceuticals (WP), based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, has experienced tremendous growth and profitability since 2010. It has gained a strong reputation for its products. Its profits have grown from two types of organic drugs that it has developed, as well as from new products that it has acquired along with a smaller pharmaceutical laboratory. Altogether, the growth has meant that the company has evolved into a collection of buildings and locations that have been haphazardly scattered over the city and its suburbs. In addition to the headquarters operations, the company also has plants and sales offices across the United States, and in Europe and Asia.

Project Overview

The chief executive officer (CEO) wants to invest in new architecture for the company headquarters, and the company has located a site that is open, yet still convenient to commuters from other parts of the Milwaukee area. The new site will allow consolidation of headquarters operations, sales and marketing, along with some of the key research and development operations. Drug production itself will remain decentralized, with its own secure facilities elsewhere in Milwaukee and other cities. Some sales and marketing operations will also remain decentralized, but senior leadership for sales and marketing will be located in Milwaukee.

The new site is clean, and it does not have any existing building on it. WP will get to start from scratch and build its own facilities as it wants to. The CEO and senior leadership want a building that soars, and that features open spaces both in the lobby as well as in the office areas.