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Top 25 Pharmaceutical development companies based in France

Name: Pharmaceutical development companies based in France
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Compiled by the RevenueBase Data Team Data refreshed Sep 17, 2026 208 companies tracked

RevenueBase identified 208 pharmaceutical development companies headquartered in France as of September 2026 and tracks 29,272 professional contacts across them, including 11,035 with verified work emails. Paris is the largest hub.

This list covers pharmaceutical development companies headquartered in France, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 17, 2026.

Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.

How to read this list HQ checked on every row RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row Refreshed Sep 17, 2026 86% judged on-target in blind review

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29,272Contacts tracked

11,035Verified emails

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The 25 largest pharmaceutical development companies based in France

Ranked by team size

Top 25 of 208 pharmaceutical development companies based in France, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 17, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to pharmaceutical development companies: strong evidence (its own description names it), partial (names part of it), indirect (matched on the rest of its profile rather than the description shown). Click a contact count to view that company's people.
#	Company	RevenueBase Smart Search	Headquarters	Employees	Contacts
1	Servier	Partial evidence	Suresnes, FranceHQ checked Sep 17, 2026	10001+	10,958 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Servier is an independent international pharmaceutical group governed by a foundation.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
2	IPSEN	Indirect evidence	Paris, FranceHQ checked Sep 17, 2026	5,001-10,000	5,943 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “We are a global biopharmaceutical company with a focus on bringing transformative medicines to patients in three therapeutic areas: Oncology, Rare Disease and Neuroscience.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
3	Delpharm	Partial evidence	Boulogne-billancourt, FranceHQ checked Sep 17, 2026	5,001-10,000	1,911 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Delpharm is a worldwide leader in contract manufacturing and development of medicines with - 19 plants in France, Italy, Canada, Poland and The Netherlands - Over 1,1 billion…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
4	Euroapi	Partial evidence	Paris, FranceHQ checked Sep 17, 2026	1,001-5,000	1,369 contacts →
	Partial evidence “EUROAPI is focused on reinventing active pharmaceutical ingredients to sustainably meet customers’ and patients’ needs around the world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
5	Cenexi	Partial evidence	Fontenay-sous-bois, FranceHQ checked Sep 17, 2026	1,001-5,000	900 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Cenexi, a French Contract Development and Manufacturing Organization with its 1,500 employees and 200 million € of turnover, is experiencing a steady growth with its four…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
6	Laboratoire Aguettant	Strong evidence	Lyon, FranceHQ checked Sep 17, 2026	501-1,000	581 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Aguettant is a family-owned pharmaceutical company dedicated to the development, industrial production and distribution of innovative injectable pharmaceutical specialties that…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
7	Novartis France	Indirect evidence	Rueil-malmaison, FranceHQ checked Sep 17, 2026	1,001-5,000	498 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Novartis est une entreprise dans les médicaments innovants.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
8	Novalix	Partial evidence	Strasbourg, FranceHQ checked Sep 17, 2026	201-500	347 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Novalix is a premier drug discovery partner to biotech firms and pharmaceutical companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
9	Minakem	Strong evidence	Minakem, FranceHQ checked Sep 17, 2026	501-1,000	275 contacts →
	Strong evidence “MINAKEM is a fully integrated development partner and commercial manufacturer for pharmaceutical companies- API manufacturing (Innovators/Generics and Highly Potent)- Custom…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
10	Biotrial	Strong evidence	Europe And North America, FranceHQ checked Sep 17, 2026	201-500	271 contacts →
	Strong evidence “A Global Provider in Early Development, we offer Non-Clinical, Clinical and Bioanalytical solutions for both pharmaceutical and biotech companies and we tailor our high-quality…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
11	Recordati France	Partial evidence	Puteaux, FranceHQ checked Sep 17, 2026	201-500	232 contacts →
	Partial evidence “LABORATOIRES BOUCHARA RECORDATI is a pharmaceuticals company based out of 70, Avenue du Général de Gaulle, Puteaux, Île-de-France, France.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
12	Synerlab Group	Indirect evidence	Entzheim, FranceHQ checked Sep 17, 2026	1,001-5,000	224 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “As of April 15, we’re proud to unveil our new name: MeribelPharmaSolutions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
13	Skyepharma- Fully Integrated Cdmo	Strong evidence	Saint-quentin-fallavier, FranceHQ checked Sep 17, 2026	201-500	203 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Through many years of involvement and achievements in the pharmaceutical industry, Skyepharma’s development and manufacturing facility is eminently specialized in Complex Oral…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
14	Eurofins Cdmo Europe	Partial evidence	Fontenilles, FranceHQ checked Sep 17, 2026	201-500	187 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Eurofins CDMO is a leading global Contract Development and Manufacturing Organization (CDMO) that provides clients with APIs / Drug Substance and Drug Product development for…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
15	Medincell	Partial evidence	Montpellier, FranceHQ checked Sep 17, 2026	51-200	161 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Medincell is a pharmaceutical company at commercial stage.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
16	PMC Isochem	Partial evidence	Vert-le-petit, FranceHQ checked Sep 17, 2026	201-500	144 contacts →
	Partial evidence “PMC Isochem, part of PMC Group International, is a world leader in custom pharmaceutical manufacturing and polymer excipients offering- CDMO for APIs, Intermediates and Excipient…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
17	Galien	Partial evidence	Levallois-perret, FranceHQ checked Sep 17, 2026	501-1,000	131 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Galien is a CDMO Pharmaceuticals company located in Burgundy, France.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
18	Pharmatis	Partial evidence	Estrées-saint-denis, FranceHQ checked Sep 17, 2026	201-500	112 contacts →
	Partial evidence “PHARMATIS is a pharmaceuticals company based out of Zone d'Activités Est N 1, Estrées-Saint-Denis, France.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
19	Seqens Pharmaceutical Solutions	Partial evidence	Écully, FranceHQ checked Sep 17, 2026	1,001-5,000	95 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Mastering a wide range of technologies, Seqens provide their clients with custom manufacturing services as well as a broad portfolio of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs) &…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
20	Athena IPS	Indirect evidence	Prouvy, FranceHQ checked Sep 17, 2026	51-200	87 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “CDMO français localisé près de Valenciennes, INPHARMASCI a intégré le groupe ATHENA début 2020.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
21	Pierre Fabre Oncology	Partial evidence	Castres, FranceHQ checked Sep 17, 2026	5,001-10,000	71 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Pierre Fabre Laboratories is one of Europe's leading pharmaceutical companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
22	Valbiotis	Partial evidence	Périgny, FranceHQ checked Sep 17, 2026	51-200	61 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Valbiotis is a commercially oriented Research & Development company committed to scientific innovation for preventing and combating metabolic and cardiovascular diseases in…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
23	AB Science	Indirect evidence	FranceHQ checked Sep 17, 2026	51-200	60 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “AB Science was founded in 2001 by a team of researchers, clinicians and entrepreneurs who have dedicated their lives to discover key mechanisms in life science and develop new…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
24	Diverchim Cdmo	Indirect evidence	Roissy-en-france, FranceHQ checked Sep 17, 2026	11-50	51 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Founded in Diverchim is a Small Molecule Drug Substance CDMO that specializes in complex chemistry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
25	Otsuka Pharmaceutical France	Partial evidence	Rueil-malmaison, FranceHQ checked Sep 17, 2026	51-200	51 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Otsuka Pharmaceutical est une société internationale de produits de santé dont la philosophie est la suivante : « Otsuka – des hommes et des femmes qui créent de nouveaux produits…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026

RevenueBase Smart Search

RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: pharmaceutical development companies. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.

Strong evidence: The company's own public description of its business names pharmaceutical development companies.
Partial evidence: Its own public description names part of pharmaceutical development companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
Indirect evidence: The description shown does not name pharmaceutical development companies. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.

RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.

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Pharmaceutical development companies based in France at a glance

As of Sep 17, 2026

37.7%Verified-email coverage

140.7Average contacts per company

11-50Median size (employees)

18.8%Largest-city concentration · Paris

Sep 17, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10

11-50

51-200

201-500

501-1,000

1,001-5,000

5,001-10,000

10001+

Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for France, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for France, over 208 companies.

How this list was built

Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among pharmaceutical development companies, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.

Source: The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
What qualifies: Companies headquartered in France whose own description of what they do matches “pharmaceutical development companies”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
RevenueBase Smart Search: RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names pharmaceutical development companies), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
What we exclude: Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among pharmaceutical development companies, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside France are excluded even when they keep an office there.
Match quality: In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
Ranking: Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
Verification: Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 11,035 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
Refresh: This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 17, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
Corrections: Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.

Pharmaceutical development companies by metro

Pharmaceutical development companies in Paris39

Frequently asked

What is RevenueBase Smart Search?

RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names pharmaceutical development companies, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.

How many pharmaceutical development companies are there based in France?

RevenueBase identified 208 pharmaceutical development companies headquartered in France as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.

What is the largest company on this list?

Servier, headquartered in Suresnes, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city has the most pharmaceutical development companies?

Paris leads with 39 headquartered companies, followed by Lyon (9) and Puteaux (6).

How do I get contact information for these companies?

A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 11,035 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 208 companies.

How current is this list?

The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 17, 2026.

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RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.