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Top 25 Specialty drug manufacturing companies based in France

Name: Specialty drug manufacturing companies based in France
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Compiled by the RevenueBase Data Team Data refreshed Sep 16, 2026 103 companies tracked

RevenueBase identified 103 specialty drug manufacturing companies headquartered in France as of September 2026 and tracks 24,641 professional contacts across them, including 8,992 with verified work emails. Paris is the largest hub.

This list covers specialty drug manufacturing 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 16, 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 16, 2026 86% judged on-target in blind review

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The 25 largest specialty drug manufacturing companies based in France

Ranked by team size

Top 25 of 103 specialty drug manufacturing companies based in France, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 16, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to specialty drug manufacturing 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	Indirect evidence	Suresnes, FranceHQ checked Sep 16, 2026	10001+	10,958 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Servier is an independent international pharmaceutical group governed by a foundation.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
2	IPSEN	Indirect evidence	Paris, FranceHQ checked Sep 16, 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 16, 2026
3	Biocodex	Indirect evidence	Gentilly, FranceHQ checked Sep 16, 2026	1,001-5,000	1,469 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Biocodex is a French pharmaceutical company founded in 1953 to develop and market the world’s first probiotic yeast strain, Saccharomyces boulardii CNCM I-745®.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
4	Laboratoire Aguettant	Partial evidence	Lyon, FranceHQ checked Sep 16, 2026	501-1,000	581 contacts →
	Partial 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 16, 2026
5	Novartis France	Indirect evidence	Rueil-malmaison, FranceHQ checked Sep 16, 2026	1,001-5,000	498 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Novartis est une entreprise dans les médicaments innovants.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
6	Biogaran	Indirect evidence	Colombes, FranceHQ checked Sep 16, 2026	201-500	466 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Biogaran, laboratoire pharmaceutique français fondé en 1996, est le pionnier du médicament générique en France.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
7	Laboratoire Arrow	Indirect evidence	Lyon, FranceHQ checked Sep 16, 2026	201-500	244 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Laboratoire Arrow, un acteur incontournable du monde la santé.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
8	Recordati France	Indirect evidence	Puteaux, FranceHQ checked Sep 16, 2026	201-500	232 contacts →
	Indirect 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 16, 2026
9	Synerlab Group	Indirect evidence	Entzheim, FranceHQ checked Sep 16, 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 16, 2026
10	Medincell	Indirect evidence	Montpellier, FranceHQ checked Sep 16, 2026	51-200	161 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Medincell is a pharmaceutical company at commercial stage.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
11	Daiichi Sankyo France	Indirect evidence	Rueil-malmaison, FranceHQ checked Sep 16, 2026	51-200	156 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Daiichi Sankyo est un groupe pharmaceutique mondial japonais, basé à Tokyo (Japon) et présent dans plus de cinquante pays.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
12	Farmea, Groupe Fareva	Indirect evidence	Angers, FranceHQ checked Sep 16, 2026	201-500	140 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Filiale du Groupe FAREVA, la société FARMEA (400 salariés) est spécialisée dans la fabrication de produits pharmaceutiques : Formes sèches, liquides, pâteuses.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
13	Provepharm	Partial evidence	Marseille, FranceHQ checked Sep 16, 2026	51-200	119 contacts →
	Partial evidence “An independent, international specialty pharmaceutical company, Provepharm leverages the potential of mature and well-known molecules to develop innovative solutions that improve…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
14	Pierre Fabre Oncology	Indirect evidence	Castres, FranceHQ checked Sep 16, 2026	5,001-10,000	71 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Pierre Fabre Laboratories is one of Europe's leading pharmaceutical companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
15	AB Science	Indirect evidence	FranceHQ checked Sep 16, 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 16, 2026
16	Otsuka Pharmaceutical France	Indirect evidence	Rueil-malmaison, FranceHQ checked Sep 16, 2026	51-200	51 contacts →
	Indirect 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 16, 2026
17	Therabel	Indirect evidence	Levallois-perret, FranceHQ checked Sep 16, 2026	201-500	49 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Therabel is a privately-owned pharmaceutical company, with a European heritage stretching back to 1945.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
18	Théradial	Partial evidence	Orvault, FranceHQ checked Sep 16, 2026	11-50	46 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Founded in 1998, Théradial specializes in the distribution of medical devices and pharmaceuticals, particularly in nephrology, gastroenterology, oncology, and clinical nutrition.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
19	Medac France	Indirect evidence	Lyon, FranceHQ checked Sep 16, 2026	11-50	43 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Chez medac, nous sommes convaincus que la santé est notre ressource la plus précieuse.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
20	Gedeon Richter France	Indirect evidence	Paris, FranceHQ checked Sep 16, 2026	11-50	43 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Gedeon Richter est un groupe pharmaceutique international basé en Hongrie dont l’objectif est de développer des solutions innovantes dans des aires thérapeutiques où les besoins…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
21	Zydus France	Indirect evidence	Nanterre, FranceHQ checked Sep 16, 2026	11-50	39 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Depuis plus de 70 ans, Zydus Lifesciences Ltd apporte des solutions pharmaceutiques pour améliorer la vie des personnes à travers le monde.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
22	Theravia	Indirect evidence	Neuilly - Sur - Seine, FranceHQ checked Sep 16, 2026	51-200	38 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “theravia is a leading international pharmaceutical company focused on rare and neglected diseases.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
23	4p-Pharma	Indirect evidence	Lille, FranceHQ checked Sep 16, 2026	11-50	31 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Established in 2014, 4P-Pharma is a clinical-stage biotech company dedicated to addressing serious diseases with significant unmet medical needs.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
24	Eurapharma Healthcare Services	Indirect evidence	Sevres, FranceHQ checked Sep 16, 2026	11-50	30 contacts →
	Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
25	Bioxis Pharmaceuticals	Indirect evidence	Lyon, FranceHQ checked Sep 16, 2026	11-50	28 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “New ideas, new innovations, new ways of thinking for the medical device industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 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: specialty drug manufacturing 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 specialty drug manufacturing companies.
Partial evidence: Its own public description names part of specialty drug manufacturing companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
Indirect evidence: The description shown does not name specialty drug manufacturing 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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Specialty drug manufacturing companies based in France at a glance

As of Sep 16, 2026

36.5%Verified-email coverage

239.2Average contacts per company

11-50Median size (employees)

17.5%Largest-city concentration · Paris

Sep 16, 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 103 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 specialty drug manufacturing 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 “specialty drug manufacturing 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 specialty drug manufacturing 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 specialty drug manufacturing 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, 8,992 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 16, 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.

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 specialty drug manufacturing 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 specialty drug manufacturing companies are there based in France?

RevenueBase identified 103 specialty drug manufacturing 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 specialty drug manufacturing companies?

Paris leads with 18 headquartered companies, followed by Lyon (8) 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 8,992 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 103 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 16, 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.