Pharma Nord

Infobox_Company
company_name = Pharma Nord
company_type = Private
foundation = 1981
location = Vejle, Denmark
key_people = Eli Wallin, Owner
Sven Moesgaard, Owner
industry = Pharmaceuticals
products = dietary supplements
homepage = [http://www.pharmanord.com/ www.pharmanord.com]

Pharma Nord is an international pharmaceutical company with corporate headquarters in Vejle, Denmark and manufacturing facility and research laboratories in Vojens, Denmark. Pharma Nord has 25 daughter companies throughout Europe, Asia, North America and the Middle East. Pharma Nord is a privately owned limited company.

History

Pharma Nord was founded in 1981 by the two current owners, Eli Wallin and Sven Moesgaard, who established an import of a British selenium dietary supplement. Soon after, the product was developed additionally and ended up as the product known as Bio-Selenium+Zinc, which is still a cornerstone of Pharma Nord's product range. The commercial success of Bio-Selenium+Zinc paved the road for the first daughter companies that were established in Sweden, England and Finland.

In 1990, Phama Nord was the first company to introduce a coenzyme Q10 product, Bio-Quinone Q10, as a dietary supplement on the European market. [ [http://www.pharmanord.com/about.html Pharma Nord - Scientifically well founded dietary supplements and herbal remedies ] ]

In June 2005, the first turf for a DKK 150 mn (USD 27 mn) factory was cut by the Minister for Food, Agriculture and Fisheries Hans Christian Schmidt, expanding Pharma Nord's production facilities in Vojens, Jutland. [ [http://www.investindk.com/visNyhed.asp?artikelID=12450 Pharma Nord to expand its production facilities in Denmark ] ]

In 2007, Pharma Nord was ranked as number 286 of engineer-related businesses by the weekly newspaper Ingeniøren. [ [http://ing.dk/rank/pharma_nord Pharma Nord | Ingeniøren ] ]

Pharma Nord products are currently retailed in more than 45 countries.

Business areas

Pharma Nord develops, manufactures and markets scientifically well founded dietary supplements, herbal remedies and medical drugs. [ [http://www.tcmdenmark.dk/Default.aspx?ID=2276 TCM Denmark ] ]

Pharma Nord's product range contains products in the following categories:
*Vitamins
*Minerals
*Multivitamin and mineral products
*Coenzyme Q10
*Essential fatty acids
*Herbal remedies
*Beauty products
*Slimming products
*Medical drugs

Research and manufacturing

Pharma Nord's products, both medical drugs and dietary supplements, are manufactured in accordance with the current Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) and Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP) guidelines. The production of medical drugs is regulated by GMP, and dietary supplements are regulated by HACCP. Pharma Nord applies the strictest rules from either regulation in all aspects of production.

Pharma Nord's selenium dietary supplement SelenoPrecise is currently used in the Prevention of Cancer by Intervention with Selenium (PRECISE) study, [ [http://www.vet.dtu.dk/Default.aspx?ID=20782 DFVF ] ] a population study involving 40,000 test participants from Denmark, Sweden and England.

Pharma Nord's coenzyme Q10 preparation is a reference product for the International Coenzyme Q10 Association. [ [http://www.icqa.org/ICQA/HomePage.html HomePage ] ] Pharma Nord also actively supports scientific research into the health benefits of coenzyme Q10, and has launched Q-Symbio, a large multinational study, investigating coenzyme Q10's potential as an adjuvant for treating chronic heart failure. ["Nyt middel til hjertepatienter", Dagbladet Børsen, 1st March 2007 [http://borsen.dk/] ]

ee also

*List of Danish companies
*List of pharmaceutical companies

References

External links

* [http://www.pharmanord.com Pharma Nord Website]