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Boehringer Ingelheim is a privately owned global pharmaceutical company based in Germany, founded in 1885 by the German chemist Dr Albert Boehringer. Initially it produced tartaric acid from wine yeast in a small factory in Ingelheim am Rhein, together with 20 employees. Today, 120 years later, the Boehringer Ingelheim group is one of the world's top 20 pharmaceutical companies and the worldwide biggest in family property.
Boehringer Ingelheim researches, develops, manufactures and supplies pharmaceuticals and biopharmaceuticals. The primary focus is on Human Pharmaceuticals, including treatments for cardiac, circulatory and respiratory problems, cancer, and many other diseases and these make up 95% of their sales. The remaining 5% of sales corresponds to the animal health products.
The company's largest site and corporate headquarters is still located in Ingelheim am Rhein near Mainz and Frankfurt, Germany. However, Boehringer Ingelheim is a globally operating company, with almost 150 subsidiaries in 75 countries. Their main business regions are Europe, North America and Japan.
As of December 2004, the Boehringer Ingelheim group of companies had nearly 36,000 employees worldwide. Of these, around 30% worked in production, 37% in marketing and sales and 16% in research and development. In Germany, Belgium, Brazil, the Netherlands, Switzerland and the United Kingdom, Boehringer Ingelheim has received recognition as one of the best Employers. For example, the German magazine 'Capital' placed the company second in a 2005 list of Germany's best employers, and in the United Kingdom the company was placed 19th in The Sunday Times' 100 Best Companies To Work For.
The company's mission statement is "Value through Innovation". This means that the company analyses and anticipates the value that customers will put on its products and services, and then seeks to increase that value by finding new and better ways of meeting customers' needs.
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