PIONEERING HEALTHCARE
WE CHALLENGE THE
STATUS QUO AND
THINK AHEAD
WE ARE TIEFENBACHER GROUP
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R&D
MANUFACTURING
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MARKET ENTRY
TIEFENBACHER GROUP
Affordable high-Quality pharmaceuticals
worldwide
With our products and solutions, we are pioneering healthcare worldwide.
We, at TIEFENBACHER GROUP, are driven by a deep sense of purpose: we are pioneering healthcare to improve patients’ lives around the world. We believe that the access to affordable high quality-healthcare is a human right. We always challenge the status quo to be one step ahead – in terms of business models as well as concrete products and services. This entrepreneurial spirit is the driving force of making high-quality pharmaceuticals more affordable, more available, and better than before.
100% family owned since 1963, we are a purpose-driven healthcare company providing best-in-class solutions throughout the entire pharmaceutical value chain. From initial idea to market access: We distribute raw materials and develop, manufacture, and register finished dosage forms like tablets, capsules, powders, drops, and patches as well as medical devices. This broad competence enables us to pioneer healthcare holistically as we can connect ideas and expertise to create novel healthcare solutions. By working together as TIEFENBACHER GROUP, in agile collaboration and cross-functional structures, we tap into our full potential and stay at the forefront of our field.
We are TIEFENBACHER GROUP – Pioneering healthcare since 1963.
Our Purpose
We are pioneering healthcare
to improve patients' lives
around the world
Living our purpose – it gives meaning to everything we do
We believe that the global access to affordable high-quality healthcare is a human right. That’s why we lead everything we do with this question: are we making high-quality pharmaceuticals better affordable, better globally available, and better than before? This clear purpose has deep and enduring value. It gives us the reason to come to work every day and reminds us why we exist as a company – to make a change in tomorrow’s health.
With purpose for people and a better world
Better Affordability
Better Global Availability
Better Therapy
Tiefenbacher Group: Our Company
Best-in-class solutions along the entire
pharmaceutical value chain
To achieve our purpose – to improve patients ́ lives worldwide – we have an agile, vertically integrated company structure. From initial idea to market access: We constantly look for smart and better ways to excel – to achieve solutions for current and future unmet needs. Our 100% family-owned company structure enhances the power of each individual division and enables us to respond quickly to the evolving demands of the market. Our broad competence allows us to connect ideas and expertise to create novel, patient-centric healthcare solutions and to bring them extremely fast to patients. This agile and vertically integrated organization structure empowers us to pioneer healthcare holistically.
From Initial Idea To Market Entry of High-Quality Pharmaceuticals
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Tiefenbacher Group: Organization structure
Our agile cross-functional company structure makes us stronger and better to change tomorrow’s health together
We, at TIEFENBACHER GROUP, have often demonstrated to excel in our field, to retain talent, and to innovate fastest. Our broad competence and vertical company structures enables us to pioneer healthcare holistically. We are pushing beyond what’s possible – always from a patient-centric approach – and are bringing forward novel healthcare solutions for people around the world.
Organization structure at TIEFENBACHER GROUP
Our company values: curiosity driven – excellence focused – patient centered
The courage to shape a better future Always one step ahead – this is how we work, this is how we think
Our values define who we are and what special attitudes we have as individuals and together as an organization to achieve our purpose. They guide us in all we do.
We believe that our expertise has to be leveraged for greater good – to improve patients’ lives worldwide. Our three values are central to how we behave as individuals, and collectively as an organization to achieve our purpose by making high-quality pharmaceuticals more affordable, more available, and better than before.
We, within the evolved international TIEFENBACHER company structure, are many, working as one across functions, across companies, and across the world.
Our purpose and our values tie us together as a company and drive us to keep aiming for making an impact: from initial idea to market access – providing best-in-class solutions along the entire pharmaceutical value chain. By working together as TIEFENBACHER GROUP, in agile collaboration and cross-function structures, we tap into our full potential and stay at the forefront of our field.
Our three values in action mean:
Curiosity
Driven
Achiever by pioneership
EXCELLENCE
FOCUSED
Know-How by enthusiasts
PATIENT
CENTERED
Value by innovations
OUR PEOPLE: DIVERSE, CURIOSITY-DRIVEN AND WITH PASSION FOR HEALTHCARE
EXPERTS AND ENTHUSIASTS TO IMPROVE PEOPLE'S LIVES WORLDWIDE
The greatest strength of TIEFENBACHER GROUP are our people. We believe that their curiosity, their passion for healthcare, and their diversity are the foundation of our success.
Everything we do at TIEFENBACHER GROUP is dedicated to improving the lives of patients around the world. We are there to make a difference. That’s why all our activities are focused on creating pharmaceuticals more available, more affordable, and better than before. The curiosity and passion of each of us is the driving force for our pioneering role. We welcome the diversity of nationalities, languages, cultures, and lifestyles in which we work together as one organization – that’s how we have a positive and effective impact on one another throughout the entire organization.
By working together as TIEFENBACHER GROUP, in flexible and agile cross-functional structures, we tap into our full potential, drive our success, and make us stay at the forefront of our field – to make advanced, value-driven pharmaceutical solutions available to everyone around the globe.
> 800
Headcount
> 25
Nationalities
> 45%
University degree
in Natural Science
IMPROVING PATIENTS' LIVES THROUGH SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS
CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY AT TIEFENBACHER GROUP
We, at TIEFENBACHER GROUP, know that our responsibility as a global healthcare company goes beyond medicine. We understand sustainability as behaving responsibly towards society and our planet – in our day-to-day work. Being commercial successful and operating responsibly is how we will generate sustainable returns.
By creating innovative high-quality medicines with broad access to patients around the world and providing a safe and rewarding workplace we can use our business to build a better tomorrow. We guarantee highest quality standards for our products and processes and ensure that TIEFENBACHER GROUP acts in compliance with applicable regulations, laws, policies, and guidelines. We promote ethical and trustful behavior by all employees of TIEFENBACHER GROUP. Furthermore, we strive to make efficient use of natural resources, to minimize the environmental impact of our operations, and to invest in environmental solutions that drive a circular economy. We also care about our society – especially in the countries where our company operates. Our caring culture is fundamental to achieve our purpose to make life significantly better for people around the world.
We demonstrate our commitment to doing business responsibly in a very meaningful and tangible way by building a healthier and more sustainable future. Check out how we act responsibly in our daily business within the TIEFENBACHER GROUP to fulfill our purpose of improving patients´ lives in a sustainable way:
Tiefenbacher Group achieves EcoVadis Silver for Sustainability
We are excited and proud to announce that we have achieved two silver medals in the recent EcoVadis Sustainability ratings, placing the company among the top 15% of all rated companies worldwide. The achievement of the silver ratings represents an important recognition that underlines Tiefenbachers commitment to Corporate Social Responsibility based on four main areas: Environment, Labour & Human Rights, Ethics and Sustainable Procurement.
Tiefenbacher Group: Governance
For us at TIEFENBACHER GROUP, compliance means more than adhering to legal requirements, voluntary obligations and internal company guidelines. Compliance is a question of attitude: reliability, honesty, credibility, and integrity are part of our DNA and the basis of our sustainable business success.
The Code of Conduct and the Whistleblower Platform are two important components of our corporate governance.
Our Code of Conduct describes how we want to do business at TIEFENBACHER GROUP. It provides guidance on how to deal with the most important integrity and legal issues in our daily work – with our colleagues, our customers, our business partners, and other third parties.
With our Whistleblower Platform TIEFENBACHER GROUP offers employees and external stakeholders the opportunity to report violations of legal provisions and internal company regulations anonymously. Every report is examined in detail by an external body, suspicious cases are investigated, and any infringements are consistently pursued. Our Whistleblower Portal is a dedicated communication channel operated by a third party and available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
OUR HISTORY: PIONEERING HEALTHCARE SINCE 1963
AT A GLANCE: OUR MILESTONES AND CONTINUED GROWTH AT TIEFENBACHER GROUP
From a distributor of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs) to a purpose-driven healthcare company with a global footprint.
We have always been powered by a strong commitment to make a difference with our products and services. Founded in 1963 as the world’s first exclusive agency for active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs), Tiefenbacher has been grown into a leading healthcare company providing innovative and best-in-class solutions along the entire pharmaceutical value chain. Representing API producers has provided the foundation for Tiefenbacher´s growth into an international operating, vertically integrated pharmaceutical company. From initial idea to market access: Today we distribute APIs and develop, manufacture, and register finished dosage forms (FDFs) as well as medical devices. In over 55 years of our company history, we have shown an outstanding track record in anticipating new developments as well as launching new businesses.
Please haven an overview about our milestones and how we, TIEFENBACHER GROUP, are pioneering healthcare – and contribute to people for a better tomorrow.
OUR FOUNDER ALFRED E. TIEFENBACHER - A SUCCESSFUL AND
FAMILY-OWNED COMPANY
PIONEER OF THE
PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY
Our entrepreneurial spirit is firmly anchored in our founder and owner family since 1963.
The foundation of TIEFENBACHER GROUP´s success story was the pioneer spirit of the company´s founder and namesake Alfred E. Tiefenbacher (*1917, +1993). Until today his unique entrepreneur mind is our driving force of achieving better health solutions by always challenging the status quo – in terms of business models as well as concrete products and services.
As we have growing, we are proud to have maintained the agile, entrepreneurial spirit on which we were founded, continuously evolving with our customers and the industry to expand our services and network. Through all of this, we continue to exercise the same level of flexibility and responsiveness that is embedded in our DNA. This combination translates to superior quality to make pharmaceuticals more affordable, more available, and better than before.
