About Boehringer Ingelheim

Boehringer Ingelheim is a global group of companies embracing many cultures and diverse societies. Learn more about the financial highlights, the corporate vision, the organisation, the Board of Managing Directors and the company's history as well as our engagement for scientific, cultural and environmental purposes.

Boehringer Ingelheim is working on breakthrough therapies that transform lives, today and for generations to come. As a leading research-driven biopharmaceutical company, the company creates value through innovation in areas of high unmet medical need. Founded in 1885 and family-owned ever since, Boehringer Ingelheim takes a long-term, sustainable perspective. More than 53,000 employees serve over 130 markets in the two business units Human Pharma and Animal Health.

In 1885, Albert Boehringer (1861-1939) founded the pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim in Nieder-Ingelheim, today a part of Ingelheim am Rhein. Since its beginnings in 1885 when it employed just 28 people, the company has become a global enterprise, with three business areas: Human Pharma, Animal Health, and Biopharmaceutical Contract Manufacturing.

Company Culture

For over 135 years, since our foundation by Albert Boehringer, our focus is on long-term performance rather than being limited by short-term profits. Day by day, more than 52,000 employees of Boehringer Ingelheim create value through innovation with a clear goal: to provide more health and improve the lives of both humans and animals.

Our FOCUS is the cultural framework for our company. It includes our common identity, an explanation why we exist, provides guidance on how we want to interact and describes what our goals are. It consists of four elements.

Vision & Values

Day by day, the 52,000 employees of Boehringer Ingelheim improve the lives of both humans and animals. Our FOCUS articulates who we are and what we strive for, why we exist, how we work and what we want to achieve.