Laboratoires Pierre Fabre
French multinational pharmaceutical and cosmetics company From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Laboratoires Pierre Fabre (French pronunciation: [labɔʁatwaʁ pjɛʁ fabʁ]) is a French multinational pharmaceutical and cosmetics company 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 | 1962 |
| Headquarters | Castres, France[1] |
Area served | Worldwide |
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Number of employees | 13,000 (2015) (Homepage) |
| Website | www |
History
Founded in 1962 by Pierre Fabre (1926-2013),[2] the company is present in over 130 countries.
Olivier Bohuon was Chief Executive from September 2010 to April 2011.[3]
Business
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]
The company had a consolidated turnover of 1.978 billion euros in 2012 (including 54% international).[2]
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]
Products
Pierre Fabre is best known for its vinorelbine (Navelbine),[4][5] an anticancer drug[6] of the vinca alkaloid class.[7][8][9]
They also developed vinflunine,[10] a fluorinated vinca alkaloid derivative[11][12] available in Australia for "advanced or metastatic transitional cell carcinoma of the urothelial tract after failure of a prior platinum containing regimen."[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]
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