Laboratoires Servier

Servier
Company typePrivate
IndustryPharmaceutical
Founded(1954 (1954))
FounderJacques Servier
Headquarters,
ProductsPharmaceuticals
Revenue€4.2 billion (FY 2018)
Number of employees
22,000
WebsiteOfficial website
Footnotes / references
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Servier Laboratories (French: Laboratoires Servier, often abbreviated to Servier) is an international pharmaceutical company governed by a non-profit foundation, with its headquarters in France (Suresnes).[3]

The consolidated turnover for the 2018 financial year was €4.2 billion.[4] Servier is the leading French independent pharmaceutical company, and the second largest French pharmaceutical company. It has branches in 149 countries, achieving 82% of its sales outside France.[5][6] The company reportedly invests a little under 25% of its turnover in research and development, which occupies 3,000 of its 22,000 employees worldwide.[7] The company's production sites produced 853 million drug boxes in 2013.[5]

The Servier Clinical Support Unit in Gidy (near Orléans), which produces drugs for clinical trials, is the largest unit of its kind in Europe.[8] Servier Laboratories is a full member of the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (EFPIA).[9]

In 2018, Servier finalized the acquisition of Shire’s oncology branch in Boston and named David K. Lee as CEO. The official opening of Servier's new U.S. headquarters took place in 2019.[4]

In 2009, Mediator, an amphetamine-based Servier drug originally developed for weight loss in people with diabetes but often prescribed off-label as a dieting aid, was withdrawn from the market after being linked to 500–2000 deaths in France.[10][11] Further investigations found that many previous safety alerts on that drug had been either missed or covered up, possibly due to the improper influence of the company.[11]

  1. ^ "Key figures". Servier. Archived from the original on 2014-10-09. Retrieved 2015-02-03.
  2. ^ "History". Servier. Archived from the original on 2017-08-05. Retrieved 2015-02-03.
  3. ^ "French drug maker Servier sets up US headquarters in Seaport". Boston Globe. May 9, 2019.
  4. ^ a b "Servier launches U.S. cancer business with plans to double headcount in next 5 years". Boston Business Journal. May 9, 2019.
  5. ^ a b "SERVIER - Pharmaceutical company specialized in cardiology, diabetes, rheumatology, depression". Retrieved 2007-07-08.
  6. ^ "Servier and Galapagos complete enrollment of global ROCCELLA Phase 2 clinical trial with GLPG1972/S201086 in knee osteoarthritis". Bloomberg. June 11, 2019.
  7. ^ "Servier's US push takes shape as Boston HQ opens". BioPharma Dive. May 9, 2019.
  8. ^ "Servier UK - Key figures". Archived from the original on 2007-07-08. Retrieved 2007-07-08.
  9. ^ "The Pharmaceutical Industry in Figures - 2008 Edition". European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (EFPIA). p. 49. Archived from the original on 2008-09-16. Retrieved 2008-08-25.
  10. ^ Article of the Figaro about Mediator
  11. ^ a b Un doute sur la «sécurité» du Mediator dès 1998 - Libération

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