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| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1985 |
| Headquarters | , France |
Key people | Bernard Fraisse, chairman, founder and 100% owner |
| €1.6 billion (2018) [1] | |
Number of employees | 12,500 |
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 was founded in 1985, [3] and the company now employs 12,500 people. [4] Fareva is the largest contract manufacturing organization (CMO) in France, [5] and of the top five pharmaceutical contract manufacturing organizations in the world. It has over 12,500 employees working in 40 different production sites. [4]
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. [6]
The company is headquartered in Tournon-sur-Rhône, Ardèche, France. [7] [8] [9]
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