INTERNATIONAL AMAPHARM GROUP
MAY WE INTRODUCE: THE WORLD'S FIRST VITAMIN FRUIT GUMMY
Many may see this health-conscious product hero as merely an enjoyable gummy bear. And given its primary target group—children—that is exactly the intention. Only a look at its more than 20-year success story and the Amapharm Group's locations worldwide reveals its multifaceted personality.
WHAT DEFINES AMAPHARM
✔️ Amapharm holds the key to children's palates and uses it responsibly for a healthy intake of vitamins.
✔️Amapharm ensures family peace at the dinner table: "If you don't eat your vegetables, then you'll just have to have dessert."
✔️Amapharm stands for a double sense of balance: Not too many vitamins, not too much snacking!
✔️Amapharm puts quality in 1st place: Only a shelf-stable vitamin carrier is a deserving brand ambassador.
✔️Amapharm gives products personality: What counts is the exclusivity of the inner values.
✔️Amapharm provides companies with security through long-standing expertise and quality standards like those in the pharmaceutical industry.
✔️Amapharm enjoys success in silence: All clients can rely on the discretion of this Hidden Champion.
1977 founded BY WOLFGANG MARKS
In a small suburb of Saarbrücken, in Neunkirchen, the consulting firm Amapharm—a combination of Pharmacist (Apotheker), Marks, and Pharma—was founded by Wolfgang Marks. In the early nineties, during the course of his many years of consulting work for the pharmaceutical industry, a challenging assignment prompted him to think outside the box: he was tasked with finding a pleasant dosage form for a problematic medicinal product.
1996 THE FIRST vitamin fruit gummy IN THE WORLD
On his mental journey toward a suitable brand ambassador, he eventually arrived at the gummy bear—and continued thinking in a generally healthy direction: Could the popular sweet treat also be used to package vitamins in a delicious way? No sooner thought than done! And for the company Amapharm, this marked the significant transformation from a pure consulting firm to a well-advised manufacturing company.
INTERNATIONAL BREAKTHROUGH
The inventor of the vitamin gummy bear was encouraged early on to think on a larger scale and focused on international markets.
This openness toward further development paid off. Exclusive contracts were concluded with pharmaceutical companies in Italy and Scandinavia. And of all places, it was a German client that provided the exclusive contract for the leap across the pond. Through a newspaper article, a well-known German pharmaceutical company had become aware of the vitamin-enriched gummy bears from Amapharm GmbH—and recognized their potential for the American market. The company's international breakthrough had been achieved.
Today, Amapharm is the world market leader in the distribution of vitaminized fruit gummies and distributes dietary supplements to over 65 countries worldwide.
2026 Solistaa – part of the Amapharm Group
We are proud that as of 2026, Amapharm has become the largest shareholder of Solistaa Pharmaceuticals, making Solistaa officially part of the Amapharm Group. This step strengthens our long-standing collaboration and accelerates our global growth.
Solistaa Pharmaceuticals is an India-based company specializing in the development and manufacture of dietary supplements as well as pharmaceutical formulations. Solistaa focuses particularly on the production of modern dosage forms such as gummies, tablets, capsules, soft chews, powders, and oral liquids. Together, we place great emphasis on high quality standards, in-house laboratory analysis, and international certifications in the areas of food safety and GMP-compliant production.
Together, the Amapharm Group—now with Solistaa—is shaping the future of pharmaceutical innovations.
2024 Hunziker – part of the Amapharm Group
Amapharm is pleased to announce the successful acquisition of our long-standing strategic bulk supplier F. Hunziker + Co AG Together with a highly motivated team in Switzerland, we are working to successfully integrate Hunziker into the Amapharm Group by the end of 2024.
FHAG has been a traditional Swiss company for over 90 years and is among the world's most trusted partners at the intersection of food, dietary supplements, and pharmaceuticals.
Since 1930, they have been creating products that are functional, beneficial, and healthy, such as gummy bears, jelly beans, candies, and much more.
In 2018, Hunziker also founded its own brand, Health-iX, which is well-established in Switzerland and offers dietary supplements for all ages. Health-iX products are primarily available in the leading Swiss supermarket chain Migros, but are also distributed abroad.
Contact us today, to learn more about the new possibilities for dosage forms as well as the wider variety of packaging solutions now available at Amapharm.
2023 Amapharm LLC – part of the Amapharm Group
Following the early international breakthrough of Amapharm, we proudly opened our first dedicated production site—Amapharm LLC—in Drums, Pennsylvania, in 2023. A production site that will not only enable us to be closer to our numerous US customers, but also provides logistical optimization to manufacture orders even faster and deliver them to the American market.
WE SUPPORT UN GLOBAL COMPACT
Amapharm has been committed since 2020 to the Corporate Responsibility initiative of the UN Global Compact and its principles in the areas of human rights, labor, environment, and anti-corruption.