Laboratoires Pierre Fabre

Laboratoires Pierre Fabre is a multinational pharmaceutical and cosmetics companies with headquarters in the French town of Castres. It was founded in 1961 by Pierre Fabre. In 2012, the company generated sales of 1.978 billion euros. It employs 10,000 people ( one third of them in France) and is active in 130 countries. In the U.S., Pierre Fabre occurs under the name Doliosis.

The company is specialized in research, development, manufacture and distribution of cosmetics, prescription drugs and health products. The pharmaceutical industry contributes 50 % of sales, 42% of cosmetics and homeopathic phytotherapy 8 % (as of 2003). The best-known product is the drug vinorelbine. The economic success Fabre -founded in the 1960s with a preparation against venous disease, obtained from the Dornmyrte.

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