Phoenix pharmaceutical trade
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| legal form | Societas Europaea, SE for short |
| founding | 1994 |
| Seat | Mannheim , Germany |
| management | Sven Seidel Marcus Friday Helmut Fischer Frank Große-Natrop Stefan Herfeld |
| Number of employees | 37,140 (end of 2019) |
| sales | EUR 25.8 billion (2018/2019) |
| Branch | Pharmaceutical wholesalers / pharmacies |
| Website | www.phoenixgroup.eu |
The Phoenix Pharma SE (outer appearance as PHOENIX group ) based in Mannheim is the largest pharmaceutical wholesaler in Germany and a leading healthcare providers in Europe. The group belongs to the Merckle group of companies .
Key figures
Phoenix operates in 27 countries with over 36,000 employees. In the 2017/18 financial year (as of January 31, 2018), it generated annual sales of 24.9 billion euros. Phoenix has 164 distribution centers in Europe for wholesaling and supplies 56,000 pharmacies in 27 countries with pharmaceuticals and health products.
The German subsidiary, Phoenix Pharmahandel GmbH & Co KG, generated sales of 8.7 billion euros in 2017/18. With 20 distribution centers and a market share of around 28 percent, the company is the market leader in Germany.
Phoenix is active in retail in 14 countries. The group operates more than 2,500 of its own pharmacies under the brands BENU, Apotek 1 and Rowlands Pharmacy, making it the market leader in continental Europe.
history
In the early 1990s, Adolf Merckle increasingly bought into regional pharmaceutical wholesalers . In October 1994 he joined F. Reichelt AG (Hamburg), Otto Stumpf GmbH (Berlin), Ferd. Schulze GmbH (Mannheim), Otto Stumpf AG (Nuremberg) and Hageda AG (Cologne) to form Phoenix AG. Some of the individual pharmaceutical companies still exist today as leasing and finance companies of the Merckle family.
Merckle appointed business lawyer Bernd Scheifele as chairman. With sales of 3.2 billion euros and a 30 percent market share, Phoenix immediately became the market leader in Germany. Through numerous acquisitions, the company quickly grew to become the current market leader in many European countries. It was already active in Italy, Hungary and the Netherlands in 1995. In 1999 the number of employees rose to over 10,000 for the first time. In 2001 two thirds of sales were generated abroad for the first time. Switzerland, the Czech Republic and the United Kingdom were added by the turn of the millennium. While the business in France, the United Kingdom and also in the Baltic States was further expanded, Phoenix gave up the wholesale business in Poland. In 2011 the company announced a new corporate brand for the retail trade, BENU pharmacies are now in 10 European countries.
In 2016, the Dutch Brocacef Groep, a joint venture between Phoenix and Celesio ( McKesson Europe ), took over around 500 Mediq pharmacies and thus assumed a leading market position in the Netherlands. In 2018 the Romanian pharmaceutical wholesaler Farmexim and the nationwide pharmacy chain Help Net Farma are taken over.
Science award
Since 1996, Phoenix has awarded the “Science Prize” to the best scientific work in university pharmaceutical basic research from among applicants in German-speaking countries. The award refers to innovative and high-quality original work with pharmaceutical relevance in the areas of: pharmacology and clinical pharmacy, pharmaceutical biology, pharmaceutical chemistry and pharmaceutical technology. The prize is endowed with a total of 40,000 euros, so that the best work in each of the four subject areas is awarded 10,000 euros.
Individual evidence
- ↑ PHOENIX group: PHOENIX group records leap in earnings . August 16, 2018 ( phoenixgroup.eu [accessed August 21, 2018]).
- ↑ PHOENIX group: Wholesale . In: PHOENIX Group . July 31, 2018 ( phoenixgroup.eu [accessed August 21, 2018]).
- ↑ Apotheke Adhoc: Phoenix needs higher margins in Germany . In: APOTHEKE ADHOC . ( apotheke-adhoc.de [accessed on August 21, 2018]).
- ↑ PHOENIX group: Retail . In: PHOENIX Group . August 1, 2018 ( phoenixgroup.eu [accessed August 21, 2018]).
- ↑ apotheke-adhoc.de: PHOENIX SPEZIAL - Rise of a pharmaceutical giant ( Memento from January 31, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ APOTHEKE ADHOC: The Architect of the Patriarch ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 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.
- ↑ phoenixgroup.eu: history
- ↑ APOTHEKE ADHOC: Phoenix is thrown in Poland ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 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.
- ↑ wallstreet-online.de: pharmaceutical giant Phoenix includes wholesale in Poland of 9 January 2012 found.
- ↑ APOTHEKE ADHOC: Phoenix: A chain for Europe ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Thorsten Schüller: Phoenix and Celesio are allowed to take over 500 pharmacies . In: DAZ.online . June 15, 2016 ( deutsche-apotheker-zeitung.de [accessed on August 21, 2018]).
- ^ Pharmacy Adhoc: Phoenix acquires 220 new pharmacies . In: APOTHEKE ADHOC . ( apotheke-adhoc.de [accessed on August 21, 2018]).
- ↑ www.focus.de: Award PHOENIX Pharmazie Wissenschaftspreis 2013. October 25, 2013, accessed on October 18, 2014 .
- ↑ Phoenix: Call for applications for the PHOENIX Pharmaceutical Science Award 2014. (PDF (1.1 MB)) February 12, 2014, accessed on October 18, 2014 .
- ↑ Pharmacy Adhoc: Phoenix celebrates pharmacy professors . In: APOTHEKE ADHOC . ( apotheke-adhoc.de [accessed on August 21, 2018]).
