The origins

Like so many family businesses established by the budding industrial bourgeoisie of the 19th century, Uriach finds its origins in a modest job in a shop.

Juan Uriach Feliu, barely a teenager, starts working in a drugstore owned by Rafael Vilaclara Euras at 6 Born Promenade in Barcelona. Uriach, the son of a miller, was born in Sant Andreu del Palomar (an 18th-century town located north of the city centre), but he was forced to move to Barcelona because the mill only provided enough work for his father and older brother.

Who would have thought that, 175 years and five generations later, the store would have grown to become a leading pharmaceutical company with a strong presence at home and abroad.