To the Rose Group
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| legal form | Corporation |
| ISIN | CH0042615283 |
| founding | 1993 |
| Seat |
Steckborn , Switzerland (holding company)
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| management | Walter Oberhänsli ( CEO and Delegate of the Board of Directors) |
| Number of employees | over 1'500 FTE (2018) |
| sales | 1,207 million CHF (2018) |
| Branch | Pharmaceutical wholesaling , logistics |
| Website | www.zurrosegroup.com |
The Swiss Zur Rose Group is a pharmaceutical distribution company in Switzerland, Germany and Austria. It also operates a health and cosmetic products (BPC) marketplace in Spain, France and Italy. According to its own information, it is the leading supplier of pharmaceuticals throughout Europe. The company was founded in 1993 as a medical wholesaler and has also been active as a mail-order pharmacy for private customers since 2001.
Group structure
The operational headquarters are in Frauenfeld ( Canton Thurgau ), from where the Swiss market is served. The Zur Rose Group is present internationally with the German pharmacy brand DocMorris, among others . The company employs more than 1,300 people at various locations and generated sales of 1,207 million francs in the 2018 financial year. The shares of Zur Rose Group AG are listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange (Valor 4261528, ISIN CH0042615283, ticker ROSE). The corporate bond for CHF 115 million issued in July 2018 is also listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange (Valor 42146044, ISIN CH0421460442, ticker ZRO18).
history
Zur Rose was founded in March 1993 by 21 doctors. Two months later they opened a pharmacy in Steckborn and began supplying doctors in the region. At the end of 1995, they gradually expanded the delivery of doctors to the whole of German-speaking Switzerland . In mid-1999, the company established the specialized delivery service along with the Polymed Medical Center AG PolyRose AG as a joint subsidiary. In October 1999 the company moved into the new logistics center in Frauenfeld with a total area of 4500 m².
In 2001, Zur Rose began shipping medicines to patients.
With the establishment of the subsidiary Zur Rose Pharma GmbH in Halle (Saale), the company expanded to Germany in 2004 and entered the pharmaceutical services business there. Business in Germany was expanded at the end of 2006 with the takeover of VfG Versandapotheke , based in the Czech Republic and operating in Germany.
In mid-2009, the Zur Rose Group sold its subsidiary Helvepharm AG, which specializes in generics , to the French pharmaceutical company Sanofi-Aventis .
In October 2012 the Zur Rose Group took over the Dutch mail order pharmacy DocMorris from the pharmaceutical wholesaler Celesio for 25 million euros. This makes it the market leader in the German pharmaceutical mail order business, because with DocMorris and the two existing subsidiaries Zur Rose Pharma and VfG Versandapotheke, the Zur Rose Group has over two million customers in the German market.
In June 2014, the Zur Rose Group reduced the number of logistics locations from four to three and closed the logistics center in Česká Lípa in the Czech Republic . The mail order business and pharmaceutical services of the brands DocMorris and Zur Rose for the German and Austrian markets will from now on be operated from the Heerlen (NL) and Halle an der Saale (DE) locations.
In 2015, the Zur Rose Group took over a majority stake in BlueCare in Winterthur, a provider of networking systems in the Swiss healthcare sector.
As the Zur Rose Group announced in November 2017, it is taking over the Vitalsana BV mail-order pharmacy in Heerlen and the associated service provider ApDG GmbH in Ulm from Ströer SE & Co. KGaA . The takeover was successfully completed after approval by the competition authorities . In addition, Eurapon Pharmahandel GmbH in Bremen was taken over in the same year .
In September 2018, the Zur Rose Group took over the Spanish marketplace Promofarma.
In October 2018 the Zur Rose Group announced the acquisition of the medpex mail order pharmacy . With the takeover, the Zur Rose Group increases its share of the pharmaceutical sales in Germany from 18 to 31 percent. The merger was completed in January 2019.
In June 2020, the takeover of the mail order activities of the Apotal mail order pharmacy operated by Bad Apotheke, Bad Rothenfelde , which achieved sales of 157 million euros in 2019, by the Zur Rose Group became known. The transaction is subject to approval by the German Federal Cartel Office. Completion is expected in the third quarter of 2020.
On July 16, 2020, the Zur Rose Group took over the Munich telemedicine provider TeleClinic.
Cooperations
Since January 2011, Zur Rose has been cooperating with dm-drogerie markt in Austria in the area of pick-up prescription collection points. Mail order sales of prescription drugs has not yet been permitted in Austria, but the liberalization of non-prescription drugs is being used by other online providers besides Zur Rose.
Since 2013, the owner-operated mail order pharmacy Zur Rose in Halle has been the exclusive pharmacy partner of the German drugstore chain dm and as such is present in around 1,600 branches in Germany. Zur Rose Pharma GmbH provides various services on behalf of the mail order pharmacy. dm has thus ended its long-term cooperation with Europa Apotheek Venlo.
In Switzerland, in cooperation with the Migros subsidiary Medbase , one branch is operated in each of the Migros stores in the cities of Basel , Bern , Zurich and Spreitenbach . Starting in 2020, the cooperation was expanded with further branches and supplemented by a jointly operated web shop .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Zur Rose Group AG. January 23, 2019, accessed September 23, 2019 .
- ↑ Mail order pharmacy: Swiss buy DocMorris. In: Spiegel Online . October 25, 2012, accessed September 23, 2014 .
- ↑ The cramp with DocMorris is over. Accessed October 25, 2012.
- ↑ Zur Rose-Gruppe takes over Vitalsana mail order pharmacy In: zurrosegroup.com, November 23, 2017, accessed on November 25, 2017.
- ↑ Zur Rose Group: Takeover of Eurapon and Vitalsana successfully completed In: zurrosegroup.com, December 29, 2017, accessed on January 5, 2018.
- ↑ medpex pharmacy: online pharmacy medpex bundles forces with market leader DocMorris for further growth in Europe - medpex mail order pharmacy. Accessed October 24, 2018 (German).
- ↑ Zur Rose Group: Takeover of medpex successfully completed Press release on the Zur Rose Group's website of January 7, 2019, accessed on August 6, 2020
- ↑ Zur Rose also takes over the Apotal report from the Deutsche Apotheker Zeitung from June 26, 2020, accessed on August 6, 2020
- ^ Handelsblatt: Allianz am Apothekenmarkt: Doc Morris mother takes over Teleclinic. Retrieved on July 20, 2020 (German). and Zur Rose Group: Zur Rose Group acquires TeleClinic, the leading telemedicine provider in Germany. Retrieved on July 20, 2020 (German).
- ↑ Mail order pharmacy cooperation with Zur Rose ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2012 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. Retrieved October 26, 2012.
- ↑ dm drugstore cooperates with Zur Rose. Accessed on October 18, 2012.
- ^ Joachim Graf: Third shop-in-shop pharmacy from Zur Rose comes to Zurich. In: ibusiness.de. November 4, 2018, accessed November 5, 2018 .
- ↑ Cooperation Medbase and Zur Rose. In: medbase.ch. December 20, 2019, accessed May 15, 2020 .
