More than just a company

Dedicated to human health and well-being since our beginnings

When we say that responsible medicine is embedded in our DNA, we have very good reasons to do so. After all, we have been committed to this philosophy since the earliest days of our company.

In 1872, Karl Philipp Engelhard, a pharmacist with an unerring instinct for product development, founded the factory for pharmaceutical preparations. In doing so, he also laid the foundation stone for everything that makes us what we are today: a family-owned company that places its patients at the focus of all its activities and develops innovative medicines to assure their good health. Because we know how important good health is. Not only with regard to our patients, but also with regard to us, our own families and our children.

Which certainly applied to Dr. Karl Engelhard, a former managing director of the company. In the 1940s, his little daughter Gloria became seriously ill with whooping cough. Due to the lack of medical standards at that time, this was a disease that often ended fatally. So Dr. Karl Engelhard began to search for ways to help his child. As pharmacologist, he studied the relevant literature night after night, discussed the matter with scientists and medical experts – and, through this, his attention was ultimately drawn to ivy. For Dr. Karl Engelhard, a discovery that set the ball rolling for research into ivy as a medicinal plant and led to the development of the first ever ivy-based finished medicine – Prospan, which, today, is the world’s most successful herbal cough medicine.

We have made human health our mission in life. And that means we have an obligation that must be fulfilled. As a family-owned and managed company, we are fully committed to this, and it is an essential aspect of the way we perceive ourselves.

Richard Mark Engelhard

Managing Director

And today, just like Dr. Karl Engelhard, we too remain dedicated to health with our hearts and souls. The essence of this maxim has never changed, despite our growth and international activities. We do not rest on the laurels of what we have achieved in the past. Quite the opposite. We are one of the few manufacturers of OTC medicines to carry out large-scale clinical studies to guarantee the ongoing efficacy and tolerability of its products and develop new and innovative products. Because, our mission is to always be state-of-the-art.

When it comes to the health and well-being of our patients, one thing is essential: a therapy that works. In view of this, establishing a foundation of proven and documented evidence is a part of our everyday work.

Dr. Rolf Engelhard

Managing Director

All this is done at our company facilities close to Frankfurt – here is where we conduct our research and develop and manufacture our products and are thus able to offer everything from a single source. In the fourth and fifth generations of our family, we manage the business of Engelhard and ideally complement each other in every respect. Each of us is aware of their own special strengths and puts them to optimum use. In this, we maintain a firm grip on the entrepreneurial principle of long-term planning. We attach great importance to organic growth through our own efforts – to the benefit of our patients, our partners and our employees. 

And we take personal responsibility for this with our motivation and commitment.

We are led by our passion for what we do. It is the driving force that enables us to maintain our position as an international market leader with our brands.

Oliver Engelhard

Managing Director

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