Laboratoires Urgo strategy and talents that make all the difference!
Urgo, a French family firm, is now a leader in the wound market and has a clear ambition to pursue its international development. The company's constant drive towards innovation, combined with sustained investment in research and development, production and clinical studies aimed at demonstrating the therapeutic efficacy of its products support this objective. Urgo sets its sights on excellence, buoyed by the skills, commitment and initiative of its staff.
Urgo Medical, leader of the French wound healing market, has set out to conquer Europe (read more...)
In 2000, Urgo revolutionised the wound healing market by inventing The TLC Technology. In 2007, Urgo did the same again with UrgoStart®, the first dressing to kick-start the healing process. 
Today, Urgo offers a broad range of products that meet the needs of the medical profession and help improve the quality of care for the most difficult wounds (burns, ulcers and pressure sores).
At the end of 2006, Urgo doubled its market potential thanks to the creation of a joint venture with Hollister Incorporated in the US. Located in Libertyville near Chicago, Hollister Wound Care distributes a broad range of wound care products on the American market.
By gaining a foothold in new regions and continuing its intensive research and development programme, Urgo is aiming to become the European wound care sector leader.
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A desire to invest in France (read more...)
Having already invested €37 million in an industrial and logistics site in 2005, Urgo is continuing to focus on development and industrial processes. A team of 53 people with complementary skills (chemists, polymer specialists, physicists, technicians, biologists, pharmacists and physicians) use biotechnologies to develop breakthrough products designed to treat specific conditions. Urgo is also an outward-looking company, working in regular partnership with both the private and public sectors (university hospitals etc.).
Clinical studies are systematically conducted to demonstrate product efficacy and safety.
Urgo is intensifying its efforts in the area of research and is determined to double its research and development budget over the next three years.
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The company’s success is founded on the skills and commitment of its staff. Human resources management lies at the heart of the company’s strategy, with a key objective: “To foster the development and professional fulfilment of every individual, in order to enhance performance and grow together” .
The success and development of the company is based on a participative management model, founded on:
- trust, translated into increased delegation of responsibilities,
- encouragement of individual initiative and creativity,
- a quest to create synergies between teams,
- promotion of commitment and daring.
This managerial ambition is reflected primarily in a system of project-based involving teamwork, skill-pooling, a crossdisciplinary approach and a spirit of enterprise. Project-based management pervades every level of the company.
Urgo implements a rich and active staff development policy: training plan, DIF (system giving employees a legal right to training), courses leading to qualifications, mobility and other Employment and Expertise Plan initiatives.
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