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 along 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 are lead in everything we do by three questions: 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

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.

Tiefenbacher Group: Organization structure

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.

Tiefenbacher Group: Organization structure

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.

Our company values: curiosity driven – excellence focused – patient centered

The courage to shape a better futureAlways 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:

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CuriosityDriven

Achiever by pioneership

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Excellencefocused

Know-How by enthusiasts

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Patientcentered

Value by innovations

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Pioneership

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Patient Focus

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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 sucess. 

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.

Our products: Raw Material – Finished Dosage Forms – Medical Devices

Better healthcare products through a patient-centric approach

Our portfolio covers all relevant pharmaceutical categories: It includes raw materials, finished dosage forms like tablets, capsules, powders, drops, and patches as well as medical devices. We are not limited to specific disease areas – we are focusing on what will truly deliver an impact and value for patients – whether for widespread or for orphan diseases. 

Our purpose – to improve patients’ lives around the world – ties us together as a company and drives us to deliver better healthcare to people with our our products and services. We, at TIEFENBACHER GRPUP, are proud of our longstanding experience to take pharmaceuticals through the entire value chain: from the initial idea to market access of high-quality medicines around the world. We distribute 600+ APIs and develop in-house finished dosage forms (FDF) and drug device combinations that address specific therapeutic needs – in unique formulations of prescription drugs (Rx) as well as over-the-counter (OTC) medicines. Our FDF  portfolio covers over 180+ products across various therapeutic categories in 10+ dosage forms. With our innovative medical device solutions we are revolutionizing the way patients are treated by combining high-quality drug device combinations with novel e-health solutions. Our business approach is based on understanding the environment in which our products are intended to be used. We are experts in adjusting to specific local requirements and customer challenges to ensure that our healthcare solutions make a sustainable impact – for the benefit for patients worldwide.

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.

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:

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Our history: Pioneering Healthcare since 1963

AT A GLANCE: OUR MILESTONES AND GONTINUED 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.

Construction of „Alfred Block“
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Construction of „Alfred Block“ (new product and analytical development labs and offices) at AET Laboratories India

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High Potent Lab and Site Construction at AET Laboratories India
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High Potent Lab and Site Construction at AET Laboratories India

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Site Expansion at Delorbis Cyprus
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Site Expansion at Delorbis Cyprus

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Development start of Oysta (Drug-eHealth combination)
OYSTA receives UX Design Award
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Development start of Oysta (Drug-eHealth combination)

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First NCE approval for innovative sleeping medicine
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First NCE approval for innovative sleeping medicine

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Foundation of Tiefenbacher Medical Devices
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Foundation of Tiefenbacher Medical Devices

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Launch of axunio Pharma (Branded Pharmaceuticals)
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Launch of axunio Pharma (Branded Pharmaceuticals)

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Foundation of AET Pharma Inc. USA
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Foundation of AET Pharma Inc. USA 

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Acquisition of Delorbis Cyprus (Manufacturing/ Branded Pharmaceuticals)
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Acquisition of Delorbis Cyprus (Manufacturing/ Branded Pharmaceuticals)

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Opening of AET Laboratories India ​(R&D and Manufacturing)
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Opening of AET Laboratories India ​(R&D and Manufacturing)

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First generic drug development of finished dosage form
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First generic drug development of finished dosage form

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Foundation by Alfred E. Tiefenbacher (API distribution)
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Foundation by Alfred E. Tiefenbacher (API distribution)

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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.

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.

Global Presence –in over 80 countries

Pioneering Healthcare to improve patients’ life worldwide

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Contact us –TIEFENBACHER GROUP

Explore our approach to develop affordable high-quality pharmaceuticals by creating value for patients worldwide. As the builders of the future in the pharmaceutical industry, we are working to improve people´s lives. By thinking beyond healthcare.Please contact us by filling out the contact form below and clicking “Send message”, or directly send an email to info@aet.eu. TIEFENBACHER GROUP will follow up with you personally as soon as possible.


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    TIEFENBACHER GROUP

    ALFRED E. TIEFENBACHER (GmbH & Co. KG)
    Van-der-Smissen-Strasse 1
    22767 Hamburg
    Germany

    Phone: +49 40 – 44 18 09 – 0
    Fax: +49 40 – 44 18 09 – 26
    Mail: info@aet.eu