NVS Dividend History & Description — Novartis AG Basel
Novartis is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, Co. is a multinational group of companies focusing on the research, development, manufacturing and marketing of healthcare products. Co.'s divisions include: Innovative Medicines, which researches, develops, manufactures, distributes and sells patented pharmaceuticals, and is composed Novartis Oncology and Novartis Pharmaceuticals business units; and Sandoz, which develops, manufactures and markets finished dosage form medicines as well as intermediary products including active pharmaceutical ingredients, and is organized globally into Retail Generics, Anti-Infectives and Biopharmaceuticals franchises.