The story
Founded by Pierre Fabre in 1962.1
History
Founded in 1962 by Pierre Fabre (1926-2013), 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. Laboratoires Avène were also created. In 1990, the Avène thermal spa re-opened. The Pierre Fabre Immunology Centre in Saint-Julien-en-Genevois was inaugurated.
Olivier Bohuon was Chief Executive from September 2010 to April 2011.
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.
In March 2025, Marie-Andrée Gamache was appointed head of the Pierre Fabre Medical Care division. In the autumn of the same year, the Pierre Fabre Group inaugurated its new headquarters, named "Campus Chartreuse", in Castres.
The Pierre Fabre Foundation
The Pierre Fabre Foundation was recognized as a public utility in 1999, 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.
From Wikipedia’s article on Laboratoires Pierre Fabre, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4