Aché

One of Brazil's five largest pharmaceutical companies, founded in 1966, with prescription and over-the-counter medicines, generics, dermocosmetics and supplements under the Aché and Biosintética brands. It manufactures at five own plants — São Paulo, Guarulhos, Londrina, Anápolis and Cabo de Santo Agostinho — covering more than 140 therapeutic classes. It employs over six thousand people and exports to around twenty countries.