The new centre, built alongside the M1 motorway, is owned by a leading company in the domestic pharmaceutical industry

The PHOENIX Pharma Zrt. is capable of processing up to 1,000 pharmaceutical delivery crates per hour at its newly opened centre in Győr

A leading pharmaceutical wholesaler in Hungary has built its 6,550-square-metre logistics centre as part of an investment worth eight billion forints. The German-owned company, which has spent twenty billion forints on developments over the last five years, built the facility near the M1 motorway using its own funds.

The project designer and technical supervisor was Óbuda Group; the company also carried out project management tasks.

A solar panel system and a cold store were also built as part of the project

At the handover ceremony on 19 June, it emerged that, within the 4,100-square-metre warehouse of the facility built as part of this greenfield investment, an automated pill-dispensing machine is capable of independently fulfilling 60 per cent of daily orders, handling 1,700 products.

A 114-square-metre cold store has also been built within the complex to accommodate products with special storage requirements. The building, which has an A+ energy rating, is powered by a 260 kWp solar panel system, supplemented by a battery storage unit with a capacity of 200 kWh.

The centre is expected to commence full-scale operations, subject to the necessary regulatory approvals, at the end of August 2026.

They provide services to four counties

Tamás Kaló, Chairman of the Board of PHOENIX Pharma, said at the handover ceremony that 100,000 boxes of medicines and pharmaceutical products are dispatched every day from the company’s logistics centre in Győr. The new centre ensures the supply of medicines to Northern Transdanubia: in other words, it serves the pharmacies and hospitals in the counties of Győr-Moson-Sopron, Komárom-Esztergom, Veszprém and Fejér, as well as the population of these regions.

The company, which is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year, is one of Hungary’s leading pharmaceutical wholesalers; every second box of medicines reaches pharmacies and hospitals through them. From their six logistics centres, they dispatch 800,000 boxes of medicines every day, and their fleet of vehicles covers 55,000 kilometres daily. The German-owned company employs 650 people, with 110 staff operating the Győr centre.

According to the company’s most recent publicly available financial statements, it achieved net turnover of 472.5 billion forints and a profit after tax of 9.2 billion forints in 2023; in 2024, the company’s turnover was 528.4 billion forints, with a profit after tax of 9.6 billion forints.