Our history
At Arkopharma, we know that most everyday ailments can be relieved with natural solutions. Created in 1980 in the Alpes Maritimes thanks to a passion for medicinal plants, our laboratories aim to share the benefits of this natural medicine with as many people as possible.
Offer everyone a improved and lasting well-being
Our journey begins in the early 1980's when Doctor Max ROMBI, a keen phytotherapy enthusiast and co-founder of the Virbac veterinary laboratory, decided to devote himself entirely to his passion: medicinal plants.
As early as 1982, Dr Rombi revolutionized the phytotherapy market by offering plants in capsules: plants in “bulk” then became “pre-dosed” forms, easier to use with a guaranteed and reproducible activity.
Since then, this passion for medicinal plants has only grown stronger and is part of our mission, both militant and grateful to nature.
At Arkopharma, we want to make Natural Medicine the Medicine of Tomorrow. Effective, more respectful of the body and its balances, better tolerated.
We want it to be the first choice of consumers and health professionals, to prevent and relieve everyday ailments.
Because, at Arkopharma, we believe that Nature has an extraordinary intelligence, and that combined with our modern pharmaceutical science, it can be further enhanced. Since its creation, our pharmaceutical laboratory and our researchers have been working to transform this intelligence into natural solutions for your health, by combining science, creativity and perfect safety, while respecting our environment.
To offer each of us, on a daily basis, improved and long-lasting well-being: the possibility of living our lives to the fullest.
Our values, natural and unchanging
Our values guide our daily actions and form a common foundation that all of our teams around the world share and are committed to respecting.
Portrait of the five founding values:
Creativity
To provide innovative, unique health solutions to provide improved and long-lasting health and well-being to our customers and their families.
Excellence
Our mission demands it, our users expect it. This must be our constant quest. Not to do well, but to do better.
Respect
Respect for others, Respect for our environment from which we draw our resources, Respect for our customers and partners, by offering an efficient, safe and quality product.
Human
Because health and well-being are at the heart of our business, people are our primary source of progress but also our primary concern: our consumers all over the world, our many professional healthcare partners, but also all our employees. that we associate with our successes.
Boldness
Dare. Further develop our taste for initiative, risk, our entrepreneurial sense to ensure progress.
Committed governance
Founded in 1968, the Group benefits from more than 40 years of experience, with transactions carried out in several hundred companies from many sectors, including healthcare and the food industry, thanks to teams spread over 5 offices in Europe: Paris, London, Manchester, Frankfurt and Warsaw.
Since the 3rd of July, 2014, the Arkopharma Group has been taken over by MONTAGU Private Equity, one of the European leaders in private equity.
This acquisition gives new impetus to the Group's development.
- Chairman: Eric Panijel
- Director of the Global Marketing Department: Anne Donnay
- Digital Director: Frédéric Levy
- Director of the French Division: Nathalie Archier-Palmer
- Director of the International Division & Director of the Iberian Pole: Olivier Ricq
- Director of the Administrative and Financial Department: Olivier Fremont
- Director of the Research & Development Department: Pierre Bruel
- Director of the Operations Department: Dominique Cotteaux
- Director of Human Resources: Caroline Brero
- Director of Transformation: Cyril Gazan
Arkopharma is:
- French and European leader in herbal medicines and food supplements
- 40 years of expertise in phytotherapy
- 9% of the workforce dedicated to innovation and R&D
- 7 subsidiaries and a presence in more than 50 countries
Arkopharma over time