The history of Gedeon Richter România can be traced back to 1985, when the pharmaceutical manufacturer Armedica was founded and the building of its premises started. The actual manufacturing process started in 1989, with a rich pharmaceutical portfolio of products, both in solid and semi-solid form.

One of the company's main concerns has been the continuous development of quality. In order to reach this objective, at the beginning of the 1990's, new equipment was purchased, which enabled the company to manufacture new pharmaceutical forms (solutions and filmed tablets) and new packaging (aluminum and PVC blisters), thus ensuring good quality for longer periods.

In 1998 the company was taken over by Richter Gedeon Plc. and its main objective became complying with international standards through obtaining a GMP Certificate (Good Manufacturing Practice), as well as developing marketing activities suitable for a company functioning on an emerging market. To the above important logistic and financial investments have been allocated.

These investments, reaching over 24 million USD, have resulted in the internal reconstruction of all manufacturing sites and the purchase of new equipment, in order to comply with the international requirements. These, in turn, allowed numerous successful Romanian and international audits. The quality management system implemented at Gedeon Richter România Ltd. allows the tracking of products' quality even from the raw materials purchasing stage, going through the manufacturing stage, to the actual products.

2001 marked the end of the modernizing process targeted at obtaining the GMP certificate. The National Agency first awarded this certificate and later the company was awarded recognition and quality certificates according to GMP norms from the Hungarian pharmaceutical authority - OGYI, Hungary.

Thus, the products’ quality is checked during every stage of the technological process: the purchase of raw materials, the intermediate production stages and the final products stage. Every series leaving the manufacturing lines is individually checked for quality.

An important moment in the company's evolution was its renaming after the main stockholder, as well as the development of a new image, noticeable mostly in packaging. Thus, this is the year Armedica became Gedeon Richter Ltd., as a sign of compliance with all the standards set out by Richter Gedeon Plc.

During 2005, another step was made in the achievement of high standard technical support, aimed at improving the product development stage. Most notably, a state of the art  product development laboratory became functional that year, and, together with our Bioequivalence Laboratory (developed together with the Medicine and Pharmacy University in Tirgu Mures) and our testing laboratory (functioning since 2000) – they constitute  a fully functional, well-equipped system, guaranteeing the quality of the product development process.

Over the last years, several products developed by Gedeon Richter România Ltd. have been included in the group’s portfolio, thus enabling our company to enter external markets, such as Hungary, Russia, Moldavia and EU member states.

The last 3 years have been a period of accelerated development, when important investments has been made, both with regard to the manufacturing facilities and the vertical integration on the market.

In order to reconfirm the Gedeon Richter Group's position on the Romanian pharmaceutical market, the decision to vertically integrate the firm on the pharmaceutical market was made. In this respect, in 2006 there were significant acquisitions in the distribution area. The Gedeon Richter Group bought a series of pharmaceutical distributors, which merged under the name of Pharmafarm.

In the distribution field, one of our strategic objectives is to provide quality services, namely to continuously raise the quality standards through the implementation of a quality management system based on GDP (Good Distribution Practice) norms.

As the vertical integration in the market concept requires, one of the Gedeon Richter group's main development priorities is also the pharmaceutical retail segment. In this respect, in 2006 the Gedeon Richter Farmacia company was founded as a part of the Romanian group dealing with the retail activity. The latter has constantly developed over time, reaching 100 pharmacies nationwide, employing a total of over 500 skilled persons. The same preoccupation with quality is present in our approach to this particular segment, as we do our utmost to provide complex quality services.

Since July, 2007, a new pharmaceutical logistical centre has been functioning on the premises of Gedeon Richter. The centre spans over 14.000 sq. meters and provides new work opportunities, thus allowing the expansion of the Richter Group. 5.200 sq. meters are covered by a warehouse, 360 sq. meters by the office building. The logistical centre is one of the most significant achievements of the Gedeon Richter group.

In this center works both: store for Gedeon Richter România Ltd. pharmaceuticals and central warehouse belonging to the Pharmafarm distributor.