JGB (company)

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JGB
Founded1875
FounderJorge Garcés Borrero
Type S.A. (corporation)
Location
Origins Colombia
Products pharmaceutical and hygiene products
Key people
Carlos Polo (CEO)
Employees1.000 (2022)
Website www.jgb.com.co

JGB S.A. is a Colombian company that manufactures pharmaceutical products, multivitamin supplements, oral hygiene products and home care products, founded in 1875. [1] [2] [3] It is one of the oldest companies in Colombia. [1] [4]

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Historia

In 1875, the doctor Enrique Garcés Velasco founded the Garcés drugstore, which he ran with his wife Joaquina Borrero de Garcés. [5] In 1899, Dr. Jorge Enrique Garcés died and his son Jorge Garcés Borrero, together with his mother, took over the management of the pharmacy. [5] In 1925 the company formally changed its name to Laboratorios JGB (initials of its name), specialising in the production of pharmaceutical products, especially one of its most marketed products, granulated glue "Tarrito Rojo". [6] [7] [8] [9]

The main plant is in the city of Cali and has two more in Cartagena and Cajicá. [10] Until 2014 it had 1,000 employees. [11] The company exports its products to several distributors located in the Región Andina and the Estados Unidos and maintains operations in Ecuador and Venezuela. [12] [13] [14]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Las 10 empresas más antiguas de Colombia". Semana (in Spanish). Retrieved 13 February 2024.
  2. ↑ COLPRENSA (26 October 2015). "JGB, la del tarrito rojo, con 90 años en el mercado". El Universal (in Spanish). Retrieved 13 February 2024.
  3. ↑ "JGB, 93 años construyendo familia entre su gente y tejiendo lazos humanos". El País (in Spanish). 19 November 2018. Retrieved 13 February 2024.
  4. ↑ UNIVERSAL, EL (19 November 2019). "Una harinera cartagenera, la empresa más antigua del país". El Universal . Retrieved 13 February 2024.
  5. 1 2 Tiempo, Casa Editorial El (25 April 2014). "El negocio del Tarrito Rojo". El Tiempo (in Spanish). Retrieved 13 February 2024.
  6. ↑ País, El (3 July 2012). "Hay que acelerar los proyectos de infraestructura en el Valle: JGB". Noticias de Cali, Valle y Colombia - Periódico: Diario El País (in Spanish). Retrieved 13 February 2024.
  7. ↑ Sanabria, Carlos Alberto Mejía; Esguerra, Estefanía Martínez (13 November 2020). Globalización e industria farmacéutica: Transformaciones del trabajo y de las formas de producción en una firma del Valle del Cauca 1994-2015 (in Spanish). Universidad del Valle. ISBN   978-958-5156-73-9 . Retrieved 13 February 2024.
  8. ↑ Guevara, Carlos Dávila L. de (2003). Empresas y empresarios en la historia de Colombia: siglos XIX-XX : una colección de estudios recientes (in Spanish). Norma. ISBN   978-958-04-7163-9 . Retrieved 13 February 2024.
  9. ↑ Luis Aurelio Ordóñez Burbano. Industrias y empresarios pioneros, Cali 1910-1945. Editorial Aula de Humanidades, 1995. p. 146. ISBN   9789586700528.
  10. ↑ COLPRENSA (26 October 2015). "JGB, la del tarrito rojo, con 90 años en el mercado". www.eluniversal.com.co (in European Spanish). Retrieved 13 February 2024.
  11. ↑ Portafolio. "La compañía caleña JGB le apuesta al cuidado personal". Portafolio.co (in Spanish). Retrieved 13 February 2024.
  12. ↑ Semana (20 March 2015). "Tarrito de éxito". Semana.com Últimas Noticias de Colombia y el Mundo (in Spanish). Retrieved 13 February 2024.
  13. ↑ Semana (20 July 2006). "La nueva receta". Semana.com Últimas Noticias de Colombia y el Mundo (in Spanish). Retrieved 13 February 2024.
  14. ↑ Semana (19 July 2007). "Mauricio Alford". Semana.com Últimas Noticias de Colombia y el Mundo. Retrieved 13 February 2024.
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