Draft:JGB (company)
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| Founded | 1875 |
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| Founder | Jorge Garcés Borrero |
| Type | S.A. (corporation) |
| Location | |
| Origins | Colombia |
| Products | pharmaceutical and hygiene products |
Key people | Carlos Polo (CEO) |
| Employees | 1.000 (2022) |
| Website | www |
JGB S.A. It is a Colombian company that manufactures pharmaceutical products, multivitamin supplements, oral hygiene products and home care products, founded in 1875..[1][2][3] It is one of the oldest companies in Colombia.[1][4]
Historia
[edit]In 1875, the doctor Enrique Garcés Velasco founded the Garcés drugstore, which he ran with his wife Joaquina Borrero de Garcés.[5] In 1899, Dr. Jorge Enrique Garcés died and his son Jorge Garcés Borrero, together with his mother, took over the management of the pharmacy.[5] In 1925 the company formally changed its name to Laboratorios JGB (initials of its name), specialising in the production of pharmaceutical products, especially one of its most marketed products, granulated glue "Tarrito Rojo".[6][7][8][9]
The main plant is in the city of Cali and has two more in Cartagena and Cajicá.[10] Until 2014 it had 1,000 employees.[11] The company exports its products to several distributors located in the Región Andina and the Estados Unidosand maintains operations in Ecuador and Venezuela.[12][13][14]
See also
[edit]- Health care in Colombia
- List of companies of Colombia
- Tecnoquímicas (Direct competition)
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Las 10 empresas más antiguas de Colombia". Semana (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-02-13.
- ^ COLPRENSA. "JGB, la del tarrito rojo, con 90 años en el mercado". El Universal (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-02-13.
- ^ País, El (2018-11-19). "JGB, 93 años construyendo familia entre su gente y tejiendo lazos humanos". El País (in español). Retrieved 2024-02-13.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link) - ^ UNIVERSAL, EL (2019-11-19). "Una harinera cartagenera, la empresa más antigua del país". El Universal. Retrieved 2024-02-13.
- ^ a b Tiempo, Casa Editorial El (2014-04-25). "El negocio del Tarrito Rojo". El Tiempo (in español). Retrieved 2024-02-13.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link) - ^ País, El (2012-07-03). "Hay que acelerar los proyectos de infraestructura en el Valle: JGB". Noticias de Cali, Valle y Colombia - Periódico: Diario El País (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-02-13.
- ^ Sanabria, Carlos Alberto Mejía; Esguerra, Estefanía Martínez (2020-11-13). Globalización e industria farmacéutica: Transformaciones del trabajo y de las formas de producción en una firma del Valle del Cauca 1994-2015 (in Spanish). Universidad del Valle. ISBN 978-958-5156-73-9. Retrieved 2024-02-13.
- ^ Guevara, Carlos Dávila L. de (2003). Empresas y empresarios en la historia de Colombia: siglos XIX-XX : una colección de estudios recientes (in Spanish). Norma. ISBN 978-958-04-7163-9. Retrieved 2024-02-13.
- ^ Luis Aurelio Ordóñez Burbano. Industrias y empresarios pioneros, Cali 1910-1945. Editorial Aula de Humanidades, 1995. p. 146. ISBN 9789586700528.
- ^ COLPRENSA. "JGB, la del tarrito rojo, con 90 años en el mercado". www.eluniversal.com.co (in European Spanish). Retrieved 2024-02-13.
- ^ Portafolio. "La compañía caleña JGB le apuesta al cuidado personal". Portafolio.co (in español). Retrieved 2024-02-13.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link) - ^ Semana (2015-03-20). "Tarrito de éxito". Semana.com Últimas Noticias de Colombia y el Mundo (in español). Retrieved 2024-02-13.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link) - ^ Semana (2006-07-20). "La nueva receta". Semana.com Últimas Noticias de Colombia y el Mundo (in español). Retrieved 2024-02-13.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link) - ^ Semana (2007-07-19). "Mauricio Alford". Semana.com Últimas Noticias de Colombia y el Mundo. Retrieved 2024-02-13.
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