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Fareva

Logo: fareva.com4

French pharmaceutical company

Fareva is a French pharmaceutical company, with annual revenues of $1.6 billion in 2018, founded and 100% owned by Bernard Fraisse, a French billionaire businessman.2 It is headquartered in Luxembourg.1 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

1985Founded1
  • HeadquartersLuxembourg1
  • Websitewww.fareva.com
  • Legal formSociété anonyme3
  • LEI5299002O8QCTT297UM413
  • StatusActive3
  • LEI statusIssued and current3
  • Registered addressPlace de la Gare 28, 1616 Luxembourg, Luxembourg3
  • Registered withLuxembourg Business Registers, B1031273

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Fareva is a French pharmaceutical company, with annual revenues of $1.6 billion in 2018, founded and 100% owned by Bernard Fraisse, a French billionaire businessman.2

Corporate structure

Fareva sits at the top of its group. 7 entities, 3 countries on record. Switch between the flow chart and the network, and select any entity to see its details.

  • Fareva Luxembourg, Luxembourg
    • BCM COSMETIQUE Subsidiary · Vitre, France
    • COSMEVA Subsidiary · Savigny-Le-Temple, France
    • Excella GmbH & Co. KG Subsidiary · Feucht, Germany
    • Excella Verwaltungs GmbH Subsidiary · Feucht, Germany
    • Fareva Deutschland GmbH Subsidiary · Feucht, Germany
    • FAREVA POISSY Subsidiary · Poissy, France

Built from parent and subsidiary links from GLEIF, the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (CC0). Each entity in the chart links to its source.

The story

Founded in 1985, the company now employs 12,500 people. Fareva is the largest contract manufacturing organization (CMO) in France, and of the top five pharmaceutical contract manufacturing organizations in the world. It has over 12,500 employees working in 40 different production sites.

In 2020 the company acquired two biologics facilities from Pierre Fabre; an oncology injectable plant in Pau, Southwest France and a monoclonal antibody (mAb) production facility in Saint-Julien-en-Genevois on the French-Swiss border.

The company is headquartered in Tournon-sur-Rhône, Ardèche, France.

From Wikipedia’s article on Fareva, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.5

Timeline

  1. 1985Founded Founded1

Sources

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