pioneering pharmaceuticals
making pharmaceuticals more affordable, more available, and better than before
Innovative solutions along the entire pharmaceutical value chain
As part of the TIEFENBACHER GROUP, a 100% family-owned leading health care company, we provide solutions throughout the entire life cycle of a pharmaceutical product. We develop, manufacture, and register value added generics and innovative medicines and license them out to marketing partners worldwide. The world´s most trusted brands count on our high excellence in creating best-in-class-dossiers and our ability to manage complex launches in over 80 countries worldwide. Our own laboratories and manufacturing sites in India and Cyprus empower us to build up efficient supply chains resulting in best value for money to our customers. Furthermore, we are committed for growth and innovation by offering a well-defined and specialized portfolio of highly potent drugs.
There is one purpose driving TIEFENBACHER´s over 600 employees day by day: improving the life of millions of patients worldwide by making pharmaceuticals more affordable, more available, and better than before.
OUT-Licensing of generic, value added and innovative medicines
Our Business Model: From initial idea to patient
Advance tomorrow´s medicine with us!
We, at AET TIEFENBACHER PHARMACEUTICALS, develop, manufacture, and register value added generics, and innovative medicines and license them out to marketing partners worldwide. We have a proven track record in licensing-out in-house-developed dossiers to customers around the world – from local to global players. Our fully integrated service includes research and market intelligence, API sourcing, intellectual property, FDF development, clinical trials, registration, quality assurance as well as supply chain management for a successful market access.
We provide over 180+ pharmaceutical products across various therapeutic categories in 10+ dosage forms as well as additional medical devices and drug device combinations. Whether for widespread or for orphan diseases – we are not limited to specific disease areas, we are focusing on what will truly deliver an impact and value for patients.
Gain access to novel healthcare solutions, speed up time-to-market and open unexplored business opportunities with us! Get a reliable and cost-efficient supply and let us build your global portfolio! AET TIEFENBACHER PHARMACEUTICALS is changing tomorrow´s health by making pharmaceuticals more affordable, more available and better than before!
A part of TIEFENBACHER GROUP: 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 lead everything we do with one question: 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.
From Initial Idea To Market Access of High-Quality Pharmaceuticals
Our agile cross-functional company structure makes us stronger and better to change tomorrow’s health together
Organization structure at TIEFENBACHER GROUP
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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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.
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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 products and services. We, at TIEFENBACHER GROUP, 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.
BEST-IN-CLASS PRODUCTS THAT DELIVER BETTER HEALTHCARE
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:
Tiefenbacher PHARMACEUTICALS achieves EcoVadis Silver for Sustainability
We are excited and proud to announce that we have achieved a silver medal in the recent EcoVadis Sustainability ratings, placing the company among the top 15% of all rated companies worldwide. The achievement of the silver rating represents an important recognition that underlines Tiefenbachers commitment to Corporate Social Responsibility based on four main areas: Environment, Labour & Human Rights, Ethics and Sustainable Procurement.
For us at TIEFENBACHER GROUP, compliance means more than adhering to legal requirements, voluntary obligations and internal company guidelines. Compliance is a question of attitude: reliability, honesty, credibility, and integrity are part of our DNA and the basis of our sustainable business success.
The Code of Conduct and the Whistleblower Platform are two important components of our corporate governance.
Our Code of Conduct describes how we want to do business at TIEFENBACHER GROUP. It provides guidance on how to deal with the most important integrity and legal issues in our daily work – with our colleagues, our customers, our business partners, and other third parties.
With our Whistleblower Platform TIEFENBACHER GROUP offers employees and external stakeholders the opportunity to report violations of legal provisions and internal company regulations anonymously. Every report is examined in detail by an external body, suspicious cases are investigated, and any infringements are consistently pursued. Our Whistleblower Portal is a dedicated communication channel operated by a third party and available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
Our history: Pioneering Healthcare since 1963
AT A GLANCE: OUR MILESTONES AND CONTINUED 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.
High Potent Lab and Site Construction at AET Laboratories India
Site Expansion at Delorbis Cyprus
Development start of Oysta (Drug-eHealth combination)
First NCE approval for innovative sleeping medicine
Foundation of Tiefenbacher Medical Devices
Launch of axunio Pharma (Branded Pharmaceuticals)
Foundation of AET Pharma Inc. USA
Acquisition of Delorbis Cyprus (Manufacturing/ Branded Pharmaceuticals)
Opening of AET Laboratories India (R&D and Manufacturing)
First generic drug development of finished dosage form
Foundation by Alfred E. Tiefenbacher (API distribution)
Our founder Alfred E. Tiefenbacher
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.
As we have growing, we are proud to have maintained the agile, entrepreneurial spirit on which we were founded, continuously evolving with our customers and the industry to expand our services and network. Through all of this, we continue to exercise the same level of flexibility and responsiveness that is embedded in our DNA. This combination translates to superior quality to make pharmaceuticals more affordable, more available, and better than before.
AET TIEFENBACHER PHARMACEUTICALS Management
our managing directors
Tiefenbacher Pharmaceuticals, as a part of the TIEFENBACHER GROUP, is led by a team of two executives who share the same purpose of making medicines more affordable, more available throughout the world and better than before. Their combined professional backgrounds and enthusiastic curiosity for people and new ideas drive our pioneership in improving patients’ live around the world.
Dr. Kristian Ruepp
Kristian has held various positions in the pharmaceutical industry. He was able to contribute to the development, production, and control up to the international marketing of pharmaceuticals – recently as managing director of an internationally operating pharmaceutical company. Kristian joined Alfred E. Tiefenbacher in 2018 and is responsible for the pharmaceutical matters.
Kristian is married and father of three.
Oliver Schrader
Oliver spent the vast majority of his global career in the branded consumer goods industry. Besides leading functions in marketing and sales he served as managing director of German Dax and skin care company Beiersdorf in Ukraine, South Africa and North America. Oliver joined the TIEFENBACHER GROUP in 2016 and is overlooking all commercial topics.
Oliver is married and a father of three.
Dr. Kristian Ruepp
Kristian has held various positions in the pharmaceutical industry. He was able to contribute to the development, production and control up to the international marketing of pharmaceuticals – recently as managing director of an internationally operating pharmaceutical company. Kristian joined Alfred E. Tiefenbacher in 2018 and is responsible for all pharmaceutical matters.
Kristian is married and father of three.
Oliver Schrader
Oliver spent the vast majority of his global career in the branded consumer goods industry. Besides leading functions in marketing and sales he served as managing director of German Dax and skin care company Beiersdorf in Ukraine, South Africa and North America. Oliver joined the TIEFENBACHER GROUP in 2016 and is overlooking all commercial topics.
Oliver is married and a father of three.
Global Presence –in over 80 countries
TIEFENBACHER PHARMACEUTICALS is making medicines more affordable, more available, and better than before.
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Contact – AET TIEFENBACHER PHARMACEUTICALS
As the builders of the future, we are working to improve people´s lives worldwide. By thinking beyond healthcare we are making medicines more affordable, more available, and better than before.Please contact us by filling out the contact form below and clicking “Send message”, or directly send an email to info@aet.eu. AET TIEFENBACHER PHARMACEUTICALS will follow up with you personally as soon as possible.
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
Pioneership
Achiever by curiosity
- We are always challenging the status quo and striving for new patient orientated solutions – in terms of business models as well as concrete products and services for our customers and partners.
- We believe that the basis for our innovation power is curiosity – the curiosity of each of our employees dedicated to make patients´ life better.
- This entrepreneurial spirit is firmly anchored in our founder and owner family since 1963 – making us a health pioneer.
Excellence
Know-how by Enthusiasts
- Our experience of almost 60 years in the pharmaceutical industry and the constant development of our group allow us to deliver premium value to our customers and partners along the whole pharmaceutical supply chain.
- The world most trusted brands count on our high excellence in research and development and reliable quality assurance building the foundation for our broad and innovative product portfolio.
- Our strong track record in gaining international marketing authorizations in 80+ countries leads to a global availability of our high-quality developments.
- We drive efficiency by keeping our supply chains simple and reaching economies of scales in our own manufacturing sites resulting in best value for money for our customers.
- About 600 highly skilled employees worldwide and a unique global network of partners are the key for our high level of excellence.
Patient Focus
Value by Innovations
- All our activities are focused on making patients´ lives better by creating pharmaceuticals more available, more affordable, and better than before.
- We believe that high-quality medicine should be affordable and available to everyone – irrespective of their income, their origin or their nationality.
- We also believe that there are always new ways of smart medicines which better deliver on patients´ needs.
- To better understand patients´ needs we are in close and regularly collaboration with universities and key opinion leaders of all relevant disciplines.