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Prof.* Dr Dr Andreas Barner is Chairman of the Board of Managing Director. He is also Head of Corporate Board Divisions Human Resources, Research & Development and Medicine.

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Whatever the degree of financial control, Boehringer Ingelheim's subsidiary companies are selfmanaging and have a large degree of operational independence. They rely on Boehringer Ingelheim GmbH for strategic services and investment and make a profit contribution to the Corporation.

The Boehringer Ingelheim Corporation has voting shares, not equity shares which can be traded or listed on any stock market or index. The Corporation has been a family-owned business for nearly 125 years.

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Value through Innovation has guided and will continue to guide our way of working together. It helps us build on our strength and make the most of our distinctive character, enabling us individually and collectively to achieve great success. Our vision is the driver of our culture and allows us to meet our future challenges ahead. Our vision is derived from our Leitbild which is the heart of who we are and why we exist as Boehringer Ingelheim. "Value through Innovation" means for us analysing and anticipating the value that customers will put on our products and services and then seeking to increase it by finding new and better ways of achieving the customer's goal.

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This situation persisted until well after the World War II, when the two companies agreed to rename themselves Boehringer Ingelheim and Boehringer Mannheim in order to reduce the confusion somewhat.

Average capacity of employees by region:
Europe:      22,106
Americas:  15,208
AAA:               8,914

Boehringer Ingelheim is a research-driven company dedicated to researching and developing, manufacturing and marketing pharmaceuticals that improve health and quality of life. 

Our businesses are Human Pharmaceuticals and Animal Health. We  focus on innovative drugs and treatments that represent major therapeutic advances.

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Modern biotechnology is key for the discovery, development and production of innovative drugs to treat unmet medical needs. The importance of biotechnology has grown significantly since 1990, when less than 1% of all drugs were biopharmaceuticals, whereas today biopharmaceuticals represent 8%. The biopharmaceutical market overall is forecasted to grow at nearly 7% through to 2015, with monoclonal antibodies showing higher growth of 9%. Boehringer Ingelheim has established its reputation with a successful market introduction of 19 DNA-derived biopharmaceuticals produced for captive use and third party business. Four of these products are among the top 20 of the worldwide selling list. We continuously move ahead advancing with the benefit of our own research, through collaboration with research-oriented companies and our commercial partners, and working with leading academic networks.

Boehringer Ingelheim offers the entire production chain within its biopharmaceutical network which is located in Vienna (Austria), Biberach (Germany) and, since 2011, in Fremont (California), where we acquired a biopharmaceutical facility in the Bay area biotech cluster that complements our existing facilities.

At the Vienna site we produce therapeutics derived from bacterial and yeast fermentation and at the Biberach site we produce biopharmaceuticals derived from mammalian cell cultures.

All our production plants operate under cGMP and are approved by European, US, Canadian and Japanese authorities.

All Pharmaceuticals Production's manufacturing facilities operate in strict compliance with current good manufacturing practice (cGMP) and are inspected and certified by regulatory agencies across the globe (FDA, EMEA, MHRA, ANVISA, ASEAN). In addition, our facilities are subject to regular inspections from Boehringer Ingelheim corporate auditors, ensuring a continuous improvement and a high level of cGMP awareness.

Animal Health is one of our two business areas. Although small relative to our Human Pharmaceuticals business, it is growing significantly above market and showing increasingly improved profitability. Boehringer Ingelheim's Animal Health business holds an international market share of 5.9%, putting it in the 6th position in the market. Our research-driven expertise and human pharmaceuticals excellence ensures to contribute to a safe and nutritious food supply and helps companion animals to live a longer and healthier life. We plan to focus more on preventative solutions and aim to become world market leader with our swine biologicals.

Partnering is essential part of our strategy to discover and market true innovations. Our strong pipeline complemented by our partnering activities is the basis for our dynamic growth above the market.

Contract and Alliance Management
Global Team located in Germany, Japan and US responsible to negotiate and manage local and international partnering agreements. Rapid and transparent deal making processes are supported by dedicated professionals, empowered by senior management. Strong focus on business and contract-related matters ensures high level of commitment and experience concerning drafting, negotiation and management of agreements.

Our chapter Partnering informs about

• what you get
• our areas of interest
• examples of our partnerships and
• partnering events.