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Holzkirchen is a market town in Bavaria, Germany. With a population of over 16,000 it is the largest town in the Miesbach district. Holzkirchen is located on the Alpenvorland in the county of Miesbach. It was established as a Markt in the 13th century. Holzkirchen was the location of one of the... main transmitting stations for Radio Free Europe. Transmissions started in 1951 and provided the people of Eastern Europe with news from Western Europe. The transmitters had a strength of up to 250 Kilowatts, and in the 1980s caused a Tornado aircraft to crash near Oberlaindern, due to EMI problems of the aircraft's electrical systems. The Transmission also caused high cancer rates in the nearby community. It was so strong, the citizen could hear the radio programme through their faucets. After a community protest and a judge's ruling, the operator was persuaded to dismantle the station in 2004. Nowadays Holzkirchen is well known as a location for pharmaceutical research and production. The European center of SANDOZ and HEXAL are located in the industrial zone.
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Novartis International AG is a multinational pharmaceutical company based in Basel, Switzerland, ranking number two in sales among the world-wide industry in 2010. Novartis manufactures such drugs as clozapine , diclofenac , carbamazepine , valsartan , imatinib mesylate and . Additional agents include ciclosporin , letrozole , methylphenidate , terbinafine , and others. Renamed to Novartis following an acquisition by Ciba-Geigy, it owns Sandoz,... a large manufacturer of generic drugs. The company formerly owned the Gerber Products Company, a major infant and baby products producer, but sold it to Nestlé on 1 September 2007. Novartis is a full member of the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations and of the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers and Associations . Novartis was created in 1996 from the merger of Ciba-Geigy and Sandoz Laboratories, both Swiss companies with long histories. Ciba-Geigy was formed in 1970 by the merger of J. R.
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