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Laboratoires Pierre Fabre
French multinational pharmaceutical and cosmetics company From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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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Founded in 1962 by Pierre Fabre (1926-2013),[2] the company is present in over 130 countries.
In 1984, Pierre Fabre Dermatologie (PFD) was founded. In 1986, Pierre Fabre Japan was established as a joint venture with Shiseido. In 1989, vinorelbine received its marketing authorisation.[3] Laboratoires Avène were also created. In 1990, the Avène thermal spa re-opened.[4] The Pierre Fabre Immunology Centre in Saint-Julien-en-Genevois was inaugurated.
Olivier Bohuon was Chief Executive from September 2010 to April 2011.[5]
In December 2014, the Group announced to trade unions the elimination of 551 positions in France (including nearly 200 in the Midi-Pyrénées region) and in Barcelona, during a central works council meeting. The Research & Development and Medical Promotion divisions were affected. A strategic plan entitled Trajectoires 2018 was launched. Although promises of internal redeployment were made for employees in Midi-Pyrénées, unions expressed concerns about potential layoffs.[6]
In March 2025, Marie-Andrée Gamache was appointed head of the Pierre Fabre Medical Care division.[7] In the autumn of the same year, the Pierre Fabre Group inaugurated its new headquarters, named "Campus Chartreuse", in Castres.[8][9]
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Business
The company is focused on research, development, manufacturing and marketing of cosmetics, prescription medicines and family health products.
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]
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Products
Pierre Fabre is best known for its vinorelbine (Navelbine),[10][11] an anticancer drug[12] of the vinca alkaloid class.[13][14][15]
They also developed vinflunine,[16] a fluorinated vinca alkaloid derivative[17][18] available in Australia for "advanced or metastatic transitional cell carcinoma of the urothelial tract after failure of a prior platinum containing regimen."[19]
The Pierre Fabre Foundation
The Pierre Fabre Foundation was recognized as a public utility in 1999,[20] 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.[21]
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