Grünenthal GmbH
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Grünenthal GmbH is a German pharmaceutical company headquartered in Aachen in Germany. It was founded in 1946 as Chemie Grünenthal and has been continuously family-owned. The company was the first to introduce penicillin into the German market in the postwar period, after the Allied Control Council lifted its ban.
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Grünenthal GmbH, also known as the Grünenthal Group, is an active company and funder established in 1946. The organization is located in Aachen, Germany.
The entity employs 4900 people. It was founded on January 29, 1946.
Synthesized by Vinony from 13 facts across 3 sources: Wikidata, Firecrawl, ROR. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Key facts
- Company.name
- Grünenthal GmbH
- Company.logo
- Grünenthal_logo_green.png
- Company.logo_alt
- Official logo of Grünenthal
- Company.image
- Campus Aachen Grunenthal.jpg
- Company.image_caption
- Headquarters of Grünenthal
- Company.former_name
- Chemie Grünenthal
- Company.type
- Private
- Company.industry
- Pharmaceutical
- Company.founded
- in Stolberg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
- Company.hq_location
- Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
- Company.areas_served
- +100 countries worldwide
- Company.revenue
- €1.8 billion
- Company.revenue_year
- 2023
- Company.owner
- Wirtz family
- Company.num_employees
- 4,400
- Company.num_employees_year
- 2023
- Company.footnotes
- Corporate Profile
via Wikipedia infobox
Research organization · ROR
- Type
- Company, Funder
- Founded
- 1946
- Location
- Aachen, Germany
- Status
- Active
GRID grid.428898.7 · ISNI 0000 0004 1765 3892
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- business
- Official name
- Grünenthal GmbH
- Country
- Germany
- Headquarters
- Stolberg
- Industry
- pharmaceutical industry
- Employees
- 4900
- Revenue
- 1300000000
- Legal form
- Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung
- Official website
- www.grunenthal.de
- Image
- Aachen Grünenthal.jpg
Show 4 more facts
- inception
- 1946-01-29
- phone number
- +49-241-5690
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
- short name
- Grünenthal
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
11 sectionsContents
- History
- Thalidomide (Contergan)
- Criminal trial
- Reparations
- Apology
- Leprosy treatment
- Versatis and Tapentadol cases
- Further drug development
- Social commitment
- References
- External links
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