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South Africa has recently achieved the 1st Millennium Development Goal (MDG) – reducing the proportion of the population living on less than 1 USD a day by half – but…
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South Africa has recently achieved the 1st Millennium Development Goal (MDG) – reducing the proportion of the population living on less than 1 USD a day by half – but…
Our international readers know about South Africa’s socio-economic relative achievements, considering the country joined the BRICS grouping last year and achieved the first Millennium Development Goal (MDG) that same year.…
Mr Kahanovitz, Focus Reports came to South Africa in 2005 to produce a similar report on the South African pharmaceutical industry. Could you come back for us on the main…
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You have worked at Roche for several years as Business unit Manager. Therefore you are familiar with the strategy of the company and the intricacies of the job. The new…
Having spent two months as the head of Novartis South Africa, what is your first assignment as General Manager, could you share with our readers what were the surprises for…
Mr. Miller, you have been Vice President and Managing Director of Mylan’s operations in South Africa since 2008. What mission were you assigned back then, and in those three years,…
South Africa carries one of the world’s most disproportionate disease burdens, the worst of so-called westernised diseases, such as cardiac disease, diabetes etc on the one hand and the developmental…
Ms Joubert, could you start by telling our readers over the 16 months of heading the operations here, what have been the most challenging situations as the General Manager of…
The line between research based pharmaceutical companies and generic companies is today less and less relevant, as we have seen in the past few years generic companies climb up the…
Mr. Godard, you previously worked in Europe for Baxter Edwards Life Sciences, what made you decide to move to South Africa in a smaller company? It is a purely romantic…
Your professional career went back and forth between creating your own business and running a smaller and very dynamic structure and managing over a thousand of employees for multinational organizations.…
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