Back in 1997, husband and wife Dr Hartley and Marree Atkinson started AFT Pharmaceuticals from their home garage in Auckland, New Zealand. In 2004, we took our first steps into Australia, a market that has become the biggest part of our growing international business.

Today AFT Pharmaceuticals is a leading Australasian health business that develops, licenses and distributes a diverse and innovative range of products globally, all guided by a principle of working to improve the health of those in need and those seeking to make a meaningful difference to their wellbeing.

With a guiding principle of working to improve your health, we deliver pharmaceuticals that provide a real difference to people’s health. 

Here at AFT Pharmaceuticals, our company vision is simple: to develop innovative products that help people. We do this by seeing opportunities that others may have missed, and by filling gaps in the market with innovative products that can provide positive health outcomes for those who need them.

Our success is built on research and development. R&D is more than ‘corporate speak’ for us: it’s at the heart of what we do in developing new products or improving existing ones. This has allowed us to successfully grow our business year after year, and crucially, to meet the health needs of people in Australasia and around the globe.

We have enjoyed a long and successful relationship with the Guild and Gold Cross, and expect that to continue for many years to come. With Maxigesic® we have been the major sponsor of the Pharmacy Assistant of the Year award since 2017, preceded in 2016 by our first Gold Cross endorsement on the brand. We’ve now switched our endorsement relationship to our innovative Crystawash® 24 alcohol-free hand sanitiser, which, like most of our products, is a pharmacy exclusive offering that seeks to drive consumers into your pharmacies to find the best and most innovative healthcare product offerings available.