Pierre Fabre: brands it owns and its ownership tree
Pierre Fabre is a privately held company headquartered in Castres, France that owns 9 consumer brands.[1]
Pierre Fabre is a French pharmaceutical and dermo-cosmetics group founded in 1962 by Pierre Fabre, a pharmacist with a passion for botany who turned his dispensary in the Tarn into an international company. It reported revenue of €3.2 billion in 2025, split between €1.7 billion of dermo-cosmetics and €1.4 billion of medicines, with 71 per cent earned outside France and products sold in 130 territories. Its ownership is unusual: the Fondation Pierre Fabre, a government-recognised public-interest foundation created in 1999, is the majority shareholder with 86 per cent, and the company's own employees are the second-largest shareholder, 6,625 of them by the end of 2025.
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Company facts
- Legal name
- Laboratoires Pierre Fabre S.A. (also Pierre Fabre Laboratories, Laboratoires Pierre Fabre)
- Type
- privately held company · see all privately held company owners
- Headquarters
- 🇫🇷 Castres, France
- Founded
- 1962
- Website
- www.pierre-fabre.com
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
Pierre Fabre in numbers
- Pierre Fabre owns 9 consumer brands tracked here across 1 top-level categories; the largest is personal care & beauty with 9 brands.[1]
Everything Pierre Fabre owns
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Brand portfolio by category
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Frequently asked questions
What brands does Pierre Fabre own?
Pierre Fabre owns 9 consumer brands tracked here, including A-Derma, Elgydium, Ducray, Klorane, MÊME Cosmetics and Eau Thermale Avène.
Is Pierre Fabre a French company?
Yes. Pierre Fabre is headquartered in Castres, France and was founded in 1962.
Who owns Pierre Fabre?
Pierre Fabre is privately held. Pierre Fabre is a French pharmaceutical and dermo-cosmetics group founded in 1962 by Pierre Fabre, a pharmacist with a passion for botany who turned his dispensary in the Tarn into an international company.
Sources (1) & corrections
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
- [1] Laboratoires Pierre Fabre — 2025 Annual Report: Leading the way, everywhere — Laboratoires Pierre Fabre, Annual report; retrieved 28 September 2026.
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