Interview with Luciano Marques, Novartis South Africa
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…
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Gauteng
1619 South Africa
Tel: +27.11.929.9111
Web: http://www.novartis.co.za/index.asp
Novartis was created in 1996 from the merger of the Swiss companies, Ciba-Geigy and Sandoz. Our name, ‘Novartis’ derived from the latin ‘novae artes’ means ‘new skills’.
In 2006, Novartis celebrated 10 years of helping patients worldwide since the successful creation of a health care leader through the merger. With its headquarters in Basel, Novartis operates in 140 countries and has more than 98 000 employees.
Novartis South Africa embodies Novartis core corporate purpose, which is to ‘Care and Cure’, putting the patient at the centre of all that we do.
Patient centricity is the common theme that runs through our diverse businesses and products represented by, Novartis Pharmaceuticals, Over the Counter Medicines(OTC), Animal Health, Ciba Vision and Sandoz Generics in South Africa.
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