Tagged with Generics

Mexico Rogerio Peso outlines how Viatris leverages collaborations to address critical healthcare needs in Mexico, combining its strengths with other stakeholders to improve patient outcomes. With a mission to offer high-quality, affordable medicines, Peso also points out how Viatris aligns its portfolio with the healthcare needs of Latin America, addressing gaps…

Switzerland Miro Venturi, Executive Chairman at Stragen, explores the company’s strategic focus on addressing critical healthcare challenges, particularly drug shortages, while emphasizing its commitment to expanding its product portfolio in critical care and women’s health. Venturi highlights Stragen’s international culture, flexibility, and strong partnerships, positioning the company as a significant player…

Switzerland Hans Peter Borger of Spirig HealthCare discusses the company’s integration with the STADA Group and its focus on generics, consumer healthcare, and specialty markets, including Parkinson’s and rare diseases. He emphasises the importance of a growth mindset and a value-driven culture in navigating Switzerland’s regulatory landscape.   We are committed…

Switzerland Switzerland’s healthcare system is at a crossroads. Although still one of the world’s bastions of biopharmaceutical innovation, the country’s domestic healthcare environment is under increasing pressure from rising costs, mounting drug shortages, and a regulatory environment that is slow to adapt. What role could pharmacies and the off-patent industry play…

Switzerland Lucas Schalch of Intergenerika examines the challenges confronting Switzerland’s generic and biosimilar sectors, such as high production costs and changing regulations. Schalch underscores the importance of maintaining a favourable economic environment for these industries.   We must work together to sustain a healthy and competitive market, ensuring that the generic…

Mexico Mexico has become a major player in global manufacturing, attracting companies looking to bring supply chains closer to North American markets, but home-grown pharma companies are also capitalizing on the country’s manufacturing muscle, increasing capabilities while betting on quality and aiming for international markets. Recent PharmaBoardroom interviewees share their insights.…

India In the words of Founder and Chairman Kaushik Chaturvedi, Halewood Labs’ success since its foundation in the early 1980s can be put down to three key factors: vision and commitment, family and cultural values, and quality and innovation. Chaturvedi describes the company’s journey up to this point and what is…

Mexico In a move to address medicine shortages Mexico’s outgoing president Andrés Manuel López Obrador last year launched a Super Pharmacy, or “Megafarmacia del Bienestar,” dubbed the largest medicine stockpile n the world. But with the country’s presidential elections looming and evidence that few prescriptions have actually been filled, detractors say…

Saudi Arabia Newly-appointed SPIMACO CEO Jérôme Cabannes outlines the ongoing transformation and growth of SPIMACO, focusing on leveraging existing assets while expanding through partnerships, new technologies, and market diversification. He highlights the company’s shift towards more complex products, such as biosimilars, and how its international acquisitions align with Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030…

Saudi Arabia SPIMACO is well-known within the Middle East and North Africa, but less so internationally. Chairman Ahmed Aljedai explains how the company is changing that by actively expanding its international presence, including via acquisitions in Europe. He also traces SPIMACO’s journey towards becoming a full-spectrum pharma company covering the entire value…

Saudi Arabia Ismail Shehada explains his decision to join leading Saudi firm Tabuk Pharmaceuticals, influenced by its potential for growth and strategic transformation in alignment with Saudi Vision 2030. He outlines the need to transition from consultancy-driven strategies to business implementation, aligning with the national agenda and achieving market leadership.   As…

Portugal Luis Abrantes explains how Generis, as one of the leading companies by volume in both the retail and hospital segments of the Portuguese pharma market, serves a huge number of patients in the country. Starting out in 2003 as a family-owned firm, it was then bought out by private equity…