Black Pharma
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| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | May 1, 1946/1995 |
| resolution | 2010 |
| Reason for dissolution | conversion |
| Seat | Monheim am Rhein , Germany |
| Number of employees | 4,100 (as of 2005) |
| sales | 990.6 million euros (as of 2005) |
| Branch | Pharmaceutical company |
Schwarz Pharma AG was a listed pharmaceutical company based in Monheim am Rhein and has been part of the Belgian UCB group since 2007 . In 2005 the company had 4,100 employees worldwide, 1,696 of them in Germany, and achieved sales of 991 million euros. In 2007, following the takeover by UCB, due to a public takeover offer, the company left the MDAX .
The development focus of Schwarz Pharma was in the areas of the cardiovascular system , gastrointestinal tract , asthma , neurology and urology .
history
The company was founded on May 1, 1946 by Rolf Schwarz-Schütte (1920–2019) and his father, the pharmacist Anton Schwarz, under the name Central-Laboratorium Reichelsheim Dr. A. Schwarz KG founded in Reichelsheim (Odenwald) . The first product series was called "Sanol" (Gallo-, Cordi-, Ferro-, Bella-Sanol). In mid-1947 Anton's second son Kurt returned from captivity and was accepted into the company a little later.
In the 1950s, the company relocated to Monheim, with the company premises initially on Mittelstrasse in the urban residential area. In 1979, Schwarz Pharma bought premises on Alfred-Nobel-Strasse on the southern outskirts of Monheim and moved there in the early 1980s. In 1995 the family company was floated on the stock exchange and included in the MDAX .
On September 25, 2006 the Belgian pharmaceutical company UCB announced the takeover of Schwarz Pharma. The chairman of the board, Patrick Schwarz-Schütte , son of Rolf Schwarz-Schütte, resigned from the board on December 31, 2006 and initially moved to the supervisory board of UCB.
The founding family Schwarz-Schütte, who sold their majority stake in the Monheim-based company to the Belgian competitor UCB , paid each employee a special bonus of 10,000 euros when they left . From the assembly line worker to the manager below board level, everyone has contributed to the company's success, said the company founder and honorary chairman of the supervisory board, Rolf Schwarz-Schütte. In total, the special bonus amounts to 42 million euros.
The Schwarz-Schütte family is one of the richest families in Germany. From 2005 to 2006 alone, they achieved an increase in their private wealth of 1.25 billion euros. In June 2011 Black Horse Investment (BGI) bought the Dreischeibenhaus in Düsseldorf from the Schwarz-Schütte family .
Schwarz Pharma was removed from the MDAX of the German stock exchange in March 2007 because the company was ousted from the MDAX by the newcomer Symrise after the takeover by the Belgian UCB with only 12% free float . On July 8, 2009, the general meeting of Schwarz-Pharma resolved to squeeze out the remaining free shareholders in favor of UCB. Following the resolution of the Annual General Meeting on November 30, 2009, Schwarz Pharma AG changed its legal form to UCB Pharma GmbH with entry in the commercial register on January 13, 2010 . With effect from 29 July 2011, the former subsidiary was Schwarz Pharma Produktions GmbH to the acquiring entity UCB Pharma GmbH in accordance with the merger agreement of 6 July 2011 merged .
The UCB Group also includes the former Schwarz Pharma subsidiaries UCB BioSciences GmbH (until January 3, 2011, Schwarz Biosciences GmbH ) and Sanol GmbH (100% stake in each).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ WDH: Schwarz Pharma and Belgian UCB SA agree on takeover , September 25, 2006, on finanznachrichten.de
- ↑ Press release from Schwarz Pharma AG
- ↑ 10,000 euros for each employee ( memento of March 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) by Brigitte Koch, December 8, 2006, in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
- ^ The ten richest Germans by Klaus Boldt, October 10, 2006, in manager magazin , special edition October 2006
- ^ Christian Herrendorf: Dreischeibenhaus Düsseldorf: The most elite roof terrace in the city. In: RP Online . June 20, 2015, accessed December 1, 2017 .