Phoenix Pharmahandel
The PHOENIX Pharma GmbH & Co KG, headquartered in Mannheim is the largest pharmaceutical wholesaler in Germany. The entire Phoenix group claims to be the largest pharmaceutical wholesaler in Europe. The company belongs to the Merckle group of companies. Chairman of the Board is Oliver Windholz.
Indicators
The Phoenix Group generated in fiscal 2008 global net sales of nearly 23 billion euros and was Europe's top-selling drug dealer.
The German mother who PHOENIX Pharma GmbH & Co KG, generated sales in 2008 of 6.3 billion euros ( 5.8 billion euros according to 2006/ 07), with a market share of over 25 percent and 20 distribution centers is the Phoenix market leader in Germany.
The sales development in 2008 is also positive in other European countries: 2.9 billion euros in Italy, 1.7 billion euros in Sweden, 1.5 billion euros in Denmark ( 73 percent market share), 1.15 billion euros in Netherlands, 1, 0 billion euros in Finland, 0.9 billion in Hungary, in the Czech Republic 0.9 billion, 824 million euros in France, 800 million euros in Norway, 500 million euro in Slovakia and in the UK, 350 million euros in Austria and Poland, 300 million euros in the Baltic States, 250 million euros in Croatia, 150 million euros in Bulgaria. In Switzerland, Phoenix is involved in Capitole and the pharmaceutical wholesaler Amedis- UE.
155 distribution centers in Europe, including 20 in Germany, supplying 40,000 pharmacies in 23 countries. Nearly 22,000 people work for the company in Europe.
History
The early 1990s, Adolf Merckle bought amplified in a regional pharmaceutical wholesalers. In October 1994 he joined F. Reichelt AG (Hamburg), Otto Stumpf GmbH (Berlin), Ferd. Schulze GmbH ( Mannheim, Germany), Otto Stumpf AG ( Nuremberg) and Hageda AG ( Cologne) together for Phoenix AG. The individual pharmaceutical companies are partly still considered Verpachtungs and finance companies of the Merckle family.
Merckle appointed the business lawyer Bernd Scheifele Chairman. With sales of 3.2 billion euros and 30 percent market share, Phoenix became an instant market leader in Germany. Through numerous acquisitions, the company grew rapidly to the current position of the market leader in many European countries. As early as 1995 it was in Italy, Hungary and the Netherlands active. 1999, the number of employees rose for the first time over 10,000. 2001, two -thirds of sales were generated abroad for the first time. Until the turn of the millennium, Switzerland, Czech Republic and the United Kingdom were added. While operations in France, the United Kingdom and the Baltic states were expanded, Phoenix was the wholesale business in Poland again in 2011, the company announced a new corporate brand for retailers known ( BENU ). After starting in the Netherlands, it is now used in various European countries.