Boehringer Mannheim
Boehringer Mannheim was a German pharmaceutical company.
Emergence
Christian Friedrich Boehringer opened a drug store in Stuttgart in 1817 , which - along with a chemical laboratory - became the pharmaceutical company CF Boehringer & Sons in 1859 . In 1872 the company was relocated to Mannheim by his son Christoph Heinrich Boehringer . In 1882 the company passed to his son Ernst Boehringer , who died in 1892. The Engelhorn family was now the owner .
Independently of this, another son of CH Boehringer, Albert Boehringer, had founded a chemical factory in Ingelheim am Rhein in 1885 , which he renamed CH Boehringer Sohn in 1892 . Approx. For 70 years there were two companies called Boehringer. To make it easier to differentiate between them, the companies renamed themselves Boehringer Mannheim and Boehringer Ingelheim in the early 1960s .
development
Under the leadership of Curt Engelhorn, Boehringer Mannheim developed into an international group with the business areas of Lab Diagnostics ( diagnostics ), Patient Care (care products), Biochemicals and Therapeutics ( pharmaceutical products ). In 1996 the Boehringer Mannheim Group had around 18,000 employees worldwide and achieved sales of around CHF 4.3 billion. The group was owned by the holding company Corange Ltd. based in Bermuda .
End of independence
In 1997 Corange Ltd. sold by the Engelhorn family's shareholders to the Swiss pharmaceutical company Hoffmann-La Roche , which became the owner of Boehringer Mannheim and the global market leader in diagnostics. The pharmaceuticals division was integrated into the Roche Group and the diagnostics business was merged into Roche Diagnostics . The name Boehringer Mannheim was discontinued. Roche Diagnostics is still based in Mannheim.
Individual evidence
- ^ Boehringer Mannheim - portrait. helpster.de, July 24, 2013, accessed October 26, 2013 .
- ↑ Data on the history of CHBS / Boehringer Ingelheim. In: http://www.ingelheimer-geschichte.de . Historischer Verein Ingelheim eV, February 24, 2017, accessed on January 31, 2020 .
- ^ Roche swallows Boehringer Mannheim. Die Welt , May 27, 1997, accessed October 26, 2013 .