Pierre Fabre is the 2nd largest dermo-cosmetics laboratory in the world and the 2nd largest private French pharmaceutical group. In 2015, it generated over 2.2 billion euros in sales, of which 57% came from the dermo-cosmetics sector, and 58% from international business. Pierre Fabre, which has always been based in the Languedoc-Roussillon-Midi-Pyrénées region in southern France, has subsidiaries in 43 countries and distribution agreements in over 130 countries.

Pierre Fabre Laboratories employs some 13,000 people worldwide. The company's products represent a continuum ranging from prescription drugs, dermo-cosmetics, to consumer health care (family health care, oral care and natural health). In 2015, the company dedicated almost 200 million euros to R&D, shared between oncology, dermatology, the central nervous system, consumer health care and dermo-cosmetics.