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Lilly is an equal opportunity employer that recruits, hires, trains and promotes people without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, age, citizenship or disability.

Eli Lilly and Company has been in business for over 140 years. The global, research-based company was founded in May 1876 by Colonel Eli Lilly in Indianapolis, Indiana, in the Midwestern section of the United States. A 38-year-old pharmaceutical chemist and a veteran of the U.S. Civil War, Colonel Lilly was frustrated by the poorly prepared, often ineffective medicines of his day. 

Although his business flourished, Colonel Lilly was not satisfied with the traditional methods of testing the quality of his products. In 1886, he hired a young chemist to function as a full-time scientist, using and improving upon the newest techniques for quality evaluation.

Today, Eli Lilly and Company employs over 1000 people in Ireland spread between Sales and Marketing, Medical, Manufacturing and Shared Services for Lilly’s global organisation.

Lilly’s Irish affiliate was established over thirty years ago to provide research-based prescription only medicines to patients in Ireland. The Lilly affiliate is based in Dublin.