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\n History<\/h1>\n <\/div>\n
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Laboratorios Gebro Pharma accumulates more than 20 years of history, yet its roots extend deep into a rich family legacy intertwined with the realms of healthcare, pharmacology and innovation.<\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n

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Grete Berger<\/strong> was born in what was then Imperial Vienna at the turn of the twentieth century. She was the daughter of Joseph Herbert Berger, the director of the Serological Institute in Vienna, and his wife Valerie. Due to health reasons the family moved to South Tyrol, where they opened a pharmacy in Meran.<\/p>\n

Grete Berger followed her father’s steps and studied pharmacy in Vienna<\/strong>. However, love sneaked into her formulas when she met merchant Otto Broschek<\/strong>, whom she married in 1923. Otto worked in banks, publishing houses and, of course, in his father-in-law’s pharmacy in Meran. Years later, after the Second World War, the Berger family began manufacturing local anesthetics<\/strong> in special glass ampoules imported from Italy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n

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When Josef Herbert Berger died, Grete Berger and Otto Broschek took the reins of the business<\/strong> and made it prosper with the distribution of German pharmaceuticals on the other side of the Alps, in Italy. In 1926 the couple welcomed their son Herbert Broschek<\/strong>. All went well until the outbreak of World War II forced them to return to Vienna. There they found their family home destroyed, event that made them move to the city of Vorarlberg, fleeing from the Russian armies. They boarded a train with that destination, but chance held a different ending for their journey: the locomotive stopped near the small Tyrolean village of Fieberbrunn, unable to cross a bridge shattered by bombs. It was 1945.<\/p>\n

The first generation of our Broschek founder took refuge in a farm room for three years. There was both famine and a shortage of medicines.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n

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On December 1, 1947, the “Gebro G. Broschek KG” was founded<\/strong> in Fieberbrunn. The company name is an acronym in honor of the first pharmacist of the family, Grete Broschek. On the founding team were Herbert and his parents. Two years earlier, in 1945, Herbert Broschek’s entrepreneurial spirit had already translated into a stuffed animal factory. Those cloth animals were known as the Tiere mit Herz, \u201canimals with hearts\u201d.<\/p>\n

Herbert<\/strong>\u00a0followed his grandfather and his mother\u2019s steps and studied Pharmacy in Innsbruck<\/strong>, where he met Helga Luger, also a pharmacist, whom he will marry eight years later<\/strong>. The family expanded to four: Grete, Otto, Herbert and Helga.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n

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At “Gebro G. Broschek KG”, gender equality was pioneering<\/strong> back in the time. Women were in charge of the technical-scientific organization and men were into management. Otto died in 1978 and Grete in 1984. Herbert and Helga and their son Pascal, born in 1969, gave way to the next generational relay. Herbert and Helga died in 2009 and 2015 respectively. Pascal Broschek currently collects all this legacy as Chairman of the Gebro Holding<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

That small laboratory in the Alps is now one of the most important pharmaceutical companies in Austria and a Holding with subsidiaries in Switzerland, Hungary and Spain. The company, a reference in the area of pain, closed 2022 with a turnover of 240M\u20ac\u00a0and currently employs around 500 people.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n

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Our Journey<\/h2>\n
These have been the main milestones of Gebro Pharma’s success:<\/div>\n \n
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Significant steps were taken for the future of the company<\/h3>\n
They signed licensing agreements with Swedish and German companies. They expanded and modernized their factory. They produced almost all galenic forms. In these years Gebro investigated the fluoride content of drinking water in Austria and discovered that it was very low. The company provided hundreds of thousands of fluoride-rich products for the prevention of caries for Austrian children.<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
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The R+D department was created<\/h3>\n
And innovative products emerge from it: in 1989 an anti-inflammatory product started being marketed, and later on in 1993 it was turn for a product indicated for central diabetes insipidus and primary enuresis (urinary incontinence) at night.<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
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Gebro went international<\/h3>\n
The company opened its doors first in Switzerland (1976), and years after in Spain (2002) and Hungary (2007).<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
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Vital was refloated<\/h3>\n
Helga and Herbert, in response to a request from the Fieberbrunn City Council decided to refloat the \u201clight sandal\u201d manufacturer Vital.<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
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Alpinamed acquisition<\/h3>\n
Research was extended to Switzerland in Phytotherapy with the brand Alpinamed acquisition, specializing in the production of herbal extracts, medical devices and cosmetics of high quality.<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
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Awards and recognitions<\/h3>\n
The Broschek family received, among others, the Medal of Honour of the Republic of Austria, the honorary citizenship of Fieberbrunn for Herbert Broschek, and the Tyrolean Cross of Merit for Helga Broschek.<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
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Gebro Holding GmbH was founded<\/h3>\n
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Gebro Pharma signs an agreement with Richi Social Entrepreneurs<\/h3>\n
A collaboration established to detect and accompany innovative projects in the field of health through an immersion program in Boston.<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
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Collaboration with Goodgut<\/h3>\n
We teamed up with the Catalan biotech Goodgut for a study on the treatment of Crohn’s disease.<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
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Collaboration with Hospital Cl\u00ednic of Barcelona<\/h3>\n
Our company starts to collaborate with the Hospital Cl\u00ednic of Barcelona and the August Pi i Sunyer Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBAPS) for the development of new therapies for glioblastoma; we strengthen our presence in Urogynecology with an innovation in non-invasive bladder instillation.<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
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We contribute to the Covid-19 pandemic fight<\/h3>\n
During the pandemic, Gebro collaborated in the fight against Coronavirus disease 2019 through the EPICOS study and drug donations.<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
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Great Place to Work and two key agreements<\/h3>\n
A fantastic year for Gebro, since we not only obtained the Great Place to Work and Best Workplaces certifications, but signed an agreement with Novartis for the commercialization of two drugs for asthma and an agreement with an Austrian Biotech for the development of a phase 2 drug.<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
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Barcelona Health Hub and new agreements<\/h3>\n
We enter the Barcelona Health Hub, a private non-profit association that promotes innovation in digital health and its transfer to the sector. 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