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Four decades of medicine, one ancient name.

ClientJulphar Gulf Pharmaceutical Industries
SectorPharmaceuticals
ScopeBrand identity & communications
MarketUAE · 40+ markets
LanguagesArabic + English
Year2026
The port of Julphar
The challenge

The biggest name on the Arab pharmacy shelf.

Julphar is one of the few Arab names that travels in medicine. Founded in Ras Al Khaimah in 1980 as Gulf Pharmaceutical Industries, it grew into the largest generic pharmaceutical manufacturer in the Middle East and North Africa: thousands of product registrations, close to a million packs leaving its lines every day, sold in more than forty markets.

Scale like that is hard on an identity. Four decades of growth had left the name written many ways in many places, in two scripts, across dozens of regulatory environments. The brief: renew one of the most trusted names in Arab healthcare without spending a gram of its recognition.

The idea

The answer was already in the name.

Julphar is the ancient port that became Ras Al Khaimah, the harbour that traded with half the world. The renewed identity returns to that source: a bilingual wordmark drawn on a golden-ratio construction, set in a deep pharmaceutical blue, reading from جلفار to Julphar the way the port once moved between languages.

Then it goes wherever the medicine goes. As a producer's mark on the region's best-known packs. In blind emboss and solid glass. On lab coats, identity passes and exhibition stands, up the headquarters wall, and into film.

Bilingual wordmarkGolden-ratio construction, two scripts
Design languageDeep blue, emboss, glass
Packaging & producer markOne name across the range
Environments & signageHeadquarters, offices, exhibitions
People systemsLab coats, identity passes
Motion & filmThe port, the name in concrete
The mark
Golden-ratio construction grid of the Julphar Latin wordmark
Construction · Latin
Golden-ratio construction grid of the Julphar Arabic wordmark
Construction · Arabic
The Julphar wordmark blind-embossed into white paper
Blind emboss
The Julphar mark in deep blue glass on an embossed ground
The mark in glass
In the world
The Julphar headquarters facade carrying the renewed wordmark
The Ras Al Khaimah headquarters
Julphar exhibition stand in brand blue
The exhibition
The Julphar wordmark embroidered on a lab coat
The lab coat
Julphar identity pass system
The identity pass
The system
In motion
The port
The name, cast in concrete