[A hundred years of Gedeon Richter Ltd].

The Company founded by Gedeon Richter in 1901 produced formerly medicines for organotherapeutical treatments, later purified hormones were prepared for therapy. The factory from the fifties developed gradually into the biggest pharmaceutical company in Hungary. Richter produces today mainly synthetic drugs and medicines. Its special field is the steroid synthesis on industrial scale. One tenth of the active ingredients of oral contraceptives of the world is made by Richter.