# GALENICA SANTE AG

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## Overview

Galenica Sante AG is a Swiss healthcare group operating across pharmacy retail and mail order, health products and brands, in-pharmacy services, diagnostics, pharmaceutical distribution, and healthcare information services. Its activities are organised around Products & Care and Logistics & IT. [1](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P108497129)[2](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T9996905) The Group’s business is centred on Switzerland, and it describes its purpose as serving people’s health and well-being in the country. [3](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P97986551)[4](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P28112854)

For the 2025 reporting year, Galenica reported net sales of CHF 4,135.6 million and 8,427 employees at year-end. [5](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T3176577)[2](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T9996905)
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## Products & services

Galenica’s product portfolio includes health and beauty products marketed by Verfora, with brands such as Perskindol, Anti-Brumm, Merfen and Algifor; its portfolio also includes the Omni-Biotic probiotic range and, since 2025, the SVR cosmetics brand and Cooper Consumer Health products. [6](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P104371678)[7](https://jobs.galenica.com/en/companies/verfora.php)[8](https://report.galenica.com/ar25/en/highlights) Medifilm supplies patient-specific blister packaging for care homes, home-care organisations and pharmacies. [9](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P103625402) The company also offers laboratory medicine, pathology and personalised special diagnostics through Labor Team. [10](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P26329244)

Services include pharmacy consultations for acute health problems, vaccinations, heart checks and wound care; pharmacies also provide in-store and mail-order services. [11](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P92653240)[12](https://report.galenica.com/ar25/en/consultation-plus) Lifestage Solutions provides a digital platform that automates ordering and billing for consumables, while HomeCare Bichsel provides clinical-nutrition expertise. [13](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P104083946) In 2025, net sales were CHF 1,816.4 million for Products & Care, including CHF 1,473.3 million for Pharmacies Omni-Channel, CHF 194.2 million for Products & Brands, and CHF 119.9 million for Services & Production. [2](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T9996905) The 2026 half-year report gives Products & Care sales of CHF 967.2 million for the first half. [14](https://report.galenica.com/hyr26/en/products-and-care)
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## Geographic presence

Galenica’s geographic footprint is centred on Switzerland. Its registered head office is in Bern, and its 2025 annual report identifies group subsidiaries in Switzerland, Germany and Austria; the subsidiary register also lists labor team (liechtenstein) ag in Schaan, Liechtenstein. The register includes locations such as Vienna, Gräfelfing and Rülzheim, as well as Swiss locations including Burgdorf, Niederbipp, Bern, Villmergen, Widnau and Lugano. These are registered-office locations, not a complete list of operating sites. [15](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P37660677)[16](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T11698921)[17](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T862932)

The report describes Galenica’s pharmacy and business network as focused on Switzerland: it reported 381 pharmacies at year-end 2025, including Coop Vitality, and a broader network of 563 locations. Galexis operates Swiss distribution centres in Niederbipp and Lausanne-Ecublens. [18](https://report.galenica.com/ar25/en/products-and-care)[19](https://report.galenica.com/ar25/en/logistics-and-it)[20](https://jobs.galenica.com/en/companies/galexis.php)

The 2025 report presents sales by business segment rather than country or region, so it does not provide a geographic revenue breakdown. It reports 8,427 employees for the group but does not give a country-level employee distribution. [2](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T9996905)[21](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T1714237)
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## Business segments

In 2025, Galenica reported two operating segments: Products & Care and Logistics & IT, alongside separately reported Group Services. Products & Care develops, markets and sells services and products through the group’s distribution channels; its business areas are Pharmacies Omni-Channel, Products & Brands, Services & Production, and Diagnostics. [22](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P81523582) Logistics & IT comprises wholesale distribution and Logistics & IT Services, which includes pre-wholesale services such as storage, distribution and debt collection, as well as healthcare-market data and management solutions. [23](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P102845227)[24](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P73484769)

By external sales, Products & Care contributed CHF 1,702.8 million, approximately 41.2% of group net sales, while Logistics & IT contributed CHF 2,425.8 million, approximately 58.7%; Group Services contributed CHF 7.1 million, approximately 0.2%. These percentages are calculated from the segment table’s external-sales figures and consolidated net sales. [25](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T7336796) On reported EBIT of CHF 232.4 million, Products & Care contributed CHF 175.2 million (about 75.4%) and Logistics & IT CHF 61.7 million (about 26.6%); Group Services reported EBIT of negative CHF 2.1 million. Segment EBIT and group EBIT differ because of adjustments and eliminations. [25](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T7336796)
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## Company history

Galenica traces its origins to a pharmacists’ joint pharmaceutical purchasing centre founded in 1927. In 1957, Galenica Representations Ltd. (now Alloga) was established to provide logistics and administrative services to the pharmaceutical industry. Galenica entered pharmacy retail in 2000 and expanded that business through organic growth and acquisitions, including Sun Store in 2009. [26](https://www.galenica.com/galenica23Assets/bin/en/publikationen/sustainability-report/sustainability_report_2017.pdf)[27](https://www.alloga.ch/en/about-alloga/history.php)[28](https://www.galenica.com/en/storyhub/eqs/549ceeff-2012-4c12-a9cc-838a5a19cd0a.php)[29](https://jobs.galenica.com/en/companies/sun-store.php)

In January 2017, Galexis acquired physicians’ wholesaler Pharmapool. On 7 April that year, Galenica Santé was separated from the former Galenica Group and listed on SIX as an independent company alongside Vifor Pharma; it was renamed Galenica Ltd. in May. [30](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P134306567)[31](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P134306523)[32](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P134306398) Later expansions included the Emeda joint venture with Medicall for care in retirement and nursing homes in 2022, and an online-pharmacy joint venture with Redcare Pharmacy in 2023. [33](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P111481914)[34](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P49016820)[35](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P95973828) In September 2025, Galenica acquired Diagnostics Group GmbH, parent of Labor Team Group, extending its activities into laboratory medicine, pathology and specialised diagnostics. [10](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P26329244)[1](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P108497129)
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