Pierre Jacques Louis Fabre (16 April 1926 – 20 July 2013) was a French

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and

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executive and pharmacist, who founded Laboratoires Pierre Fabre in 1962. Fabre, a

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enthusiast, was also the owner of Castres Olympique, a French

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club based in the city of

Castres Castres (; ''Castras'' in the Languedocian dialect of Occitan) is the sole subprefecture of the Tarn department in the Occitanie region in Southern France. It lies in the former province of Languedoc, although not in the former region of Lan ...

. Fabre founded Laboratoires Pierre Fabre, a major multinational

and

company headquartered in Castres, in 1962. The company grossed 1.972 billion euros in revenue in 2012. It employs approximately 10,000 people, with 6,700 of those jobs based in France. The success of the company placed Fabre as France's 43rd richest man at the time of his death in 2013. Fabre died in his home in Lavaur, Tarn department, on 20 July 2013, at the age of 87. The French employers' organisation,

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, called his death "a huge loss." Castres Olympique's stadium was renamed as Stade Pierre-Fabre in memory of Fabre in 2017.

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1926 births 2013 deaths People from Castres French cosmetics businesspeople French pharmacists French company founders 20th-century French newspaper publishers (people) Grand Croix of the Légion d'honneur {{France-business-bio-stub