dgpharma

What dgpharma does

DGPharma BV is a privately held Belgian company (Besloten Vennootschap) founded circa 1943 and headquartered in Sint-Denijs-Westrem, Belgium. The company sells nutritional supplements (voedingssupplementen) directly to consumers and to registered healthcare professionals through e-commerce websites. Its flagship is dgpharma.be, supplemented by country-specific domains for Luxembourg (dgpharma.lu), the Netherlands (dgpharma.eu), and France (dgpharma.fr), indicating an established Benelux-plus-France D2C footprint. The company's value proposition rests on more than 80 years of brand heritage in nutritional supplements and the stated application of modern scientific techniques to product development and quality control.

Name

dgpharma

Legal name

DGPharma BV

Website

https://dgpharma.be

Company type

Private

Founded year

1943

Operating status

Operating

Short description

DGPharma BV is a Belgian nutraceutical retailer founded circa 1943, selling nutritional supplements directly to consumers and registered healthcare professionals via e-commerce sites serving Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, and France.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Nutritional Supplements

NAICS

Food (Health) Supplement Retailers (456191), Health and Personal Care Retailers (456)

SIC

Wholesale-Drugs, Proprietaries & Druggists' Sundries (5122)

akta.pro primary industry

Health & Wellness (Vitamins, Supplements, OTC) DTC (CRAFACAC)

akta.pro secondary industries

Vitamins & Minerals (Single Nutrients) (CRADAGAB), Health Food & Supplement Stores (CRAHAEAC)

Keywords

• Dietary supplements
• Nutritional supplements
• Online supplements
• Health products
• Wellness supplements

Headquarters

HQ city

Sint-denijs-westrem

HQ country

Belgium

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Supply Chain, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Personnel, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Nutritional Supplements Sales: DGPharma generates revenue through direct e-commerce sales of nutritional supplements to private consumers and healthcare professionals in Belgium.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

DGPharma sells nutritional supplements (voedingssupplementen) directly to private consumers and healthcare professionals through proprietary e-commerce webshops (dgpharma.be and country-specific domains for Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands). The product range is positioned to improve consumer health and quality of life, leveraging more than 80 years of company experience combined with the latest techniques in nutritional science, product development, and quality assurance.

Product overview

DGPharma offers a single product line of nutritional supplements (voedingssupplementen) sold through a private consumer webshop. The company leverages over 80 years of experience in the supplement industry, applying the latest scientific techniques in development and quality assurance. Products are targeted at Belgian consumers (particuliere webshop) with delivery limited to Belgium. The company also has pharmacovigilance responsibilities for monitoring product safety.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• DGPharma Nutritional Supplements

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration2 records

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves3 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Direct peers

• Mattisson: Dutch specialty supplements brand with broad nutritional supplement range sold DTC; comparable category and Benelux market overlap with DGPharma.
• Pharma Nord: Danish-founded nutritional supplements company with deep Belgian Benelux distribution and a practitioner recommendation channel; directly comparable to DGPharma in product category, target market, and HCP-led GTM.
• Orthica: Dutch/Benelux specialist in nutritional supplements sold via health professionals and DTC; comparable to DGPharma in category specialization, geography, and professional recommendation-led distribution model.
• Bonusan: Dutch-based nutritional supplements brand with strong HCP/therapist distribution and a DTC webshop in the Benelux; directly comparable to DGPharma in product mix, geography, and practitioner channel.
• Vitals: Dutch nutritional supplements brand selling a broad line of vitamins and specialty supplements through DTC e-commerce in the Benelux market — highly comparable product/category overlap with DGPharma.
• Holland & Barrett: Major health-and-personal-care and supplements retailer with strong Benelux presence and DTC webshop; comparable to DGPharma on product category and DTC retail motion, though at much larger scale.
• De Tuinen: Dutch health food and supplements chain with DTC webshop serving Benelux consumers; directly comparable retail format and supplement assortment to DGPharma.

Broad incumbents

• Solgar: Established global vitamins and supplements brand with broad SKU portfolio and multi-channel distribution; overlaps DGPharma's core nutritional supplements category but at significantly greater scale and geographic reach.
• Nestlé Health Science: Large multinational nutrition, supplement and medical-food business; competes with DGPharma across the nutritional supplements category but as part of a vastly broader portfolio.
• NOW Foods: Large US-headquartered nutritional supplements manufacturer/brand with global DTC and wholesale distribution; broad category overlap with DGPharma but operating at materially greater scale.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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