Berlin Chemie
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| Company type | Privately held company |
|---|---|
| Industry | Pharmaceutical industry |
| Founded | 1890 |
| Headquarters | Berlin, Germany |
Key people | Han Steutel (Chairman of the Board) Edward Szybowski Stefano Papa Attilio Sebastio Christiane von der Eltz Ivan Bergstein |
| Revenue | 1.5 billion EUR (2021)[1] |
| Owner | Menarini Group |
Number of employees | 5,000 (2021)[1] |
| Website | www.berlin-chemie.com |
Berlin-Chemie AG is a German pharmaceutical company based in Berlin, Germany. The company has been a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Italian Menarini Group since 1992.
Berlin-Chemie considers the establishment of a plant for the laboratory preparations of the Chemical factory of Kahlbaum in Berlin-Adlershof in 1890, as its origin.[2] The first factory located in the former administrative district of Treptow, Berlin-Adlershof.[3] In 1927 after the merger with Schering AG employees began the development of drugs. After the end of the Second World War, the Adlershof factory of Schering AG was located in the Soviet occupation zone and thus in the later German Democratic Republic. From the mid-50s onwards, the company signed as VEB Berlin-Chemie. When the state-owned companies were privatized or dissolved after the political turnaround, the Italian group Menarini took over the factory in Berlin in 1992, including the product name, and thus immediately found a larger sales market in Eastern Europe.[4]
