Vianex

Vianex S.A.

Type	Incorporated
Founded	1971
Founder	Pavlos Giannakopoulos
Headquarters	Athens, Greece
Number of employees	1,070 (2015)
Website	www.vianex.gr

Vianex S.A. (Greek: Βιανεξ Α.Ε.) is a Greek pharmaceutical company, founded in 1971 by the Giannakopoulos’ family that has been involved with the pharmaceutical industry since 1924.

The company produces, imports, packages, markets and distributes a large number of pharmaceuticals covering all the various therapeutic classes. It has also formed strategic partnerships and alliances with major pharmaceutical entities across the globe, such as Merck & Co. (U.S.A.), Sanofi Pasteur MSD (France) and Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited (Japan). VIANEX S.A. has also been exporting registered products for over 20 years in 35 countries in Europe (UK, France, Spain, Germany, Denmark, Netherlands, Cyprus), the Middle East (Jordan, S. Arabia), Africa (Tunisia, Sudan, South Africa, the Ivory Coast) and Asia (Philippines, Japan, Vietnam, Singapore, Taiwan).

The headquarters are located in Athens, Greece, while the company owns three factories in the Attica region and one in Patras, Greece.

VIANEX S.A. has also established its own Research & Development department, which undertakes the development of new pharmaceutical formulations for the treatment of various medicinal causes. The company recently began to cooperate with various Universities on the research and development of new active molecules which are effective in the treatment of serious diseases.

VIANEX S.A. undertakes several Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiatives, through which it supports a variety of associations, organizations and welfare institutions operating in the health sector.It also works closely with the country’s University Clinics and Research Centers to promote scientific knowledge and direct use of research in VIANEX’s production centers, for the benefit of the general public.

VIANEX’s origins date back to 1924, when Dimitrios Giannakopoulos, grandfather of Dimitrios Giannakopoulos, opened one of the first pharmacy stores in Athens, in Peiraios Street. After accumulating decades of family experience in the field, his son, Pavlos Giannakopoulos, founded PHARMAGIAN in 1960, a company that acted as a representative of major international pharmaceutical companies in Greece. Two decades of expansion followed and in 1971 the company became a societe anonyme (S.A.), changing its name to VIANEX, while in 1977 it began its manufacturing activities with the establishment of the first manufacturing plant in the Athens area.