Lilly is a leading innovation-driven pharmaceutical corporation. We're developing best-in-class pharmaceutical products by applying the latest research from our own worldwide laboratories and from collaborations with other well-known scientific organizations.

Everything at Lilly begins with the unmet medical needs of people. We provide answers for these often complex, difficult problems in two ways: through the discovery and development of breakthrough medicines and through the health information we offer. To ensure that our customers get the maximum benefits from our products, we provide important information about our medicines and the diseases they treat.

While our products save and improve lives, they also save overall health care costs: they are often less expensive than other forms of health care, such as surgery and hospitalization.

We are strengthening our ability to identify high-potential drug candidates by improving our research and development processes, investing in new research technologies, and expanding our research teams. At the same time, we have entered into dozens of research alliances worldwide to gain access to new research capabilities and additional promising compounds.

At Lilly, people are the source of all our abilities, all our successes. Our future depends on our global community of employees whose varied perspectives, experiences and training fuel the creativity and the energy to pioneer pharmaceutical innovation. We employ more than 36,000 people worldwide and market our medicines in 159 countries and run our major research and development facilities in 9 countries and conducts clinical trials in more than 30 countries.

As our company touches the lives of people worldwide, we recognize that we have a responsibility to be a good corporate citizen in our communities and to help preserve the environment for the generations to come.

As we implement our strategies and pursue our objectives, long-established core values guide us in all that we do:

Respect for people that includes our concern for the interests of all people worldwide who touch-or are touched by-our company: customers, employees, shareholders, partners, and communities;

Integrity that embraces the very highest standards of honesty, ethical behavior, and exemplary moral character;

Excellence that is reflected in our continuous search for new ways to improve the performance of our business to become the best at what we do.