Grifols
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| legal form | Joint stock company (SA) |
| ISIN | ES0171996087 |
| founding | 1940 |
| Seat | Barcelona , Spain |
| management | Victor Grifols ( CEO ) |
| Number of employees | 14,700 (2015) |
| sales | EUR 3.93 billion (2015) |
| Branch | Pharmaceutical company, chemical company |
| Website | www.grifols.com |
Grifols SA is a Spanish multinational pharmaceutical and chemical company . It mainly produces derivatives from blood plasma and is the market leader in Europe in this area . The company also supplies medical devices and starting materials for test laboratories . Grifols has been listed on the Madrid Stock Exchange since May 2006 and was included in the IBEX 35 stock exchange index in January 2008 .
Portfolio
Grifols is one of the world's largest manufacturers of IVIG , albumin , blood coagulation factor VIII and other derivatives of blood plasma, as well as preparations and materials for analysis in the field of immunohematology .
production
In 2007 the company had a capacity of 3.6 million liters of plasma fractionation per year.
- Factory Parets del Valles , Spain : p capacity of 2.1 million liters. a.
- Factory Los Angeles : p capacity of 1.5 million liters. a.
history
Grifols was founded in 1940 by José Antonio Grifols Roig (1885-1976), a hematologist and scientist, and his two sons Víctor and José Antonio Grifols y Lucas († 1958). In 1951 Grifols Roig was the first to publish the procedure for plasmapheresis . The company launched its human immunoglobulin for intravenous use ( IVIG ) in the European market in the mid-1990s. In 2003, Grifols took over Alpha Therapeutic Corporation , based in Los Angeles. In March 2018, the complete takeover of Haema , the largest private blood donation service in Germany, by Grifols was agreed; in December Haema was sold to the Dutch investment group Scranton Enterprises, which is a Grifols shareholder.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Grifols 2015 Annual Report , at www.grifols.com , accessed October 19, 2016
- ↑ Sharon Smyth, Gore, Gareth: Santander, Sabadell, Sol Melia, Urbas: Iberia Preview . In: Bloomberg , June 23, 2008. Retrieved January 18, 2009.
- ↑ Sonya Dowsett: Blood firm Grifols sees 2006 sales up 22 pct . In: Reuters , January 19, 2007. Retrieved January 18, 2009.
- ↑ Biography of José Antonio Grifols y Roig Archive link ( Memento of the original from April 9, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Grifols media release: Grifols inaugurates the GRIFOLS ACADEMY OF PLASMAPHERESIS in Glendale (Arizona) ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Handelsblatt: Archive: Spanish Probitas Pharma goes public on July 16 , DPA date: July 6, 2004 14:07:14 - Archive
- ↑ Press release of March 20, 2018
- ↑ Grifols sells Haema and Biotest for 469 million to its shareholder Scranton
