Within our reports we typically like to highlight the personalities of the industry and the stories behind the executives that we meet. As you are still…
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Novo Nordisk is one of the very few pharmaceutical multinationals that has such a strong focus on one therapeutic area. Although the company is now diversifying,…
In order to understand the culture behind the business that this association represents, what would you say is the perception of OTC and non-prescriptive drugs in…
Hungary has been recognized as one of the largest pharmaceutical and healthcare markets in Central and Eastern Europe, and can obviously not be ignored by Roche.…
You took over as GM back in 2008. No doubt that this was a challenging time to run a business, in particular in view of the…
You recently declared that in a context of new emerging challenges for pharmaceutical companies, those who would survive would not be the strongest ones but the…
Interview with Marthin Kwakkelstein, Country Manager, Hungary, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Celgene Hungary
The Hungarian pharmaceutical environment has been undergoing a turbulent time recently, with many new measures being implement by the Government. What are your observations, and how…
Assign Group started in 2002 as a small local CRO company founded in Austria; monitoring and doing minor project management only. Why was Austria chosen as…
Interview with Riette Blacquiere, Executive Officer, The American Chamber of Commerce in the Netherlands
How do you operate in terms of the stakeholder management, with all of your associate members? Do you tend to operate from the committee perspective, or…
Having one of the highest penetration rates in Europe, generic medicines play a very important role in the Dutch pharmaceutical market. As this is the principal…
While already having worked for Boehringer Ingelheim for quite some time, the end of 2010 marked the completion of your first full year as general manager…
Takeda has more than 25 years of history in Italy and reached the 20th position in the Italian market- a striking performance in a context when…