"This will avoid substantial effort and assist the company in cost-saving and streamlining processes," Stada said in a statement.

The withdrawal from the Prime segment, which requires high international transparency requirements, becomes effective three months after an announcement by the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.

The General Standard segment is primarily intended for medium-sized and large corporations that wish to use a cost-effective listing for their listing admissions in the regulated market, according to the Deutsche Borse Cash Market.

Stada, now controlled by private equity firms Bain and Cinven, has seen about five leadership changes in roughly two years, recently naming Peter Goldschmidt to take over as chief executive from Sept. 1.

Late last year, the company was hit by the economic fallout from Catalonia's secessionist push as its Barcelona-based Spanish subsidiary was boycotted by pharmacies in the rest of the country. It cited political turbulence due to the Catalonia referendum as one of the reasons why its group earnings in the fourth quarter were negatively impacted.

(Reporting by Shalini Nagarajan in Bengaluru; Editing by Peter Graff)