CDMO / CMOFounded 1985
Fareva
Tournon-sur-Rhône, Ardèche, France
A family-owned French CDMO and one of the largest contract manufacturers in the world, producing oral solid dose, injectable, and biologic/monoclonal antibody drug products, plus cosmetics and personal-care contract manufacturing, for pharma and consumer brand customers.
- Segment
- CDMO / CMO
- Headquarters
- Tournon-sur-Rhône, Ardèche, France
- Founded
- 1985
- Website
- www.fareva.com
Notable facts
- Founded by Bernard Fraisse, who began with a small packaging unit in Ardèche (Wikipedia cites 1985) before renaming the group Fareva in 2005; the company's own history page frames its origin story as starting in 1990 — sources disagree on the exact founding year.
- Employs roughly 12,500-13,000+ people across more than 40 production sites worldwide and is described as the largest contract manufacturing organization headquartered in France.
- In 2020 expanded into biologics/oncology by acquiring two Pierre Fabre manufacturing sites: an oncology injectables plant in Pau and a monoclonal antibody facility near the French-Swiss border.
- Reported approximately €1.6 billion in annual revenue as of 2018 figures cited on its Wikipedia page.
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