Laboratoires Pierre Fabre is a French multinational pharmaceutical and cosmetics company. The company had a consolidated turnover of 1.978 billion euros in 2012 (including 54% international).[2] It is headquartered in the city of Castres, Midi-Pyrénées, France.[2]
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| Company type | Private limited company |
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| Industry | Pharmaceutical |
| Founded | 1951 |
| Headquarters | Paris, France[1] |
Area served | Worldwide |
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Number of employees | 13,000 (2015) (Homepage) |
| Website | www |
Founded in 1962 by Pierre Fabre (1926-2013),[2] the company is present in over 130 countries. Laboratories Pierre Fabre had approximately 10,000 employees in 2012, 33% of whom are internationally based, while the remaining 6,700 employees were based in France.[2] The company's business activity is focused on research, development, manufacturing and marketing of cosmetics, prescription medicines and family health products. Pharmaceuticals and phytotherapy represent 47% of turnover, whereas cosmetics represent 53% (percentages of 2012 turnover).[citation needed]
Pierre Fabre is best known for its vinorelbine (Navelbine),[3][4] an anticancer drug[5] of the vinca alkaloid class.[6][7][8] They also developed vinflunine,[9] a fluorinated vinca alkaloid derivative[10][11] available in Australia for "advanced or metastatic transitional cell carcinoma of the urothelial tract after failure of a prior platinum containing regimen."[12]
Olivier Bohuon was Chief Executive from September 2010 to April 2011.[13]
The Pierre Fabre Foundation
The Pierre Fabre Foundation was recognized as a public utility in 1999,[14] and its mission is to enable communities from less advanced and emerging countries, as well as those plunged into severe crisis by political or economic upheaval and/or natural disaster, to access the quality and levels of everyday health care and the widely-used drugs defined by the WHO and other organisations as essential to human health.[15]
References
External links
- (in English) Pierre Fabre laboratories - Official site