Getz Pharma is a member of the Getz Group of Companies, which has a legacy of over 160 years. The Getz Group was founded in 1852 by a Prussian immigrant Joseph Getz and his three brothers in Lower Lake, California, and began as a local general store. By the 1870s, the Getz Brothers were marketing medicines, food products, and consumer goods to customers in Shanghai, Hong Kong, Calcutta and Madras. Today, the Getz Group is home to more than 12,000 employees worldwide and distributes agricultural, biomedical, pharmaceutical and technical products and consumer goods in over 50 countries across the world.