Tagged with Generics

Pharma Manlio Florenzano discusses Sandoz’s engagement in Italy and the role of generics firms in contributing to a more affordable and sustainable Italian healthcare system. Can you please start by introducing Sandoz’s historic engagement with the Italian market? Sandoz began marketing in Italy back in 2000. My own background, meanwhile, was…

Pharma “My primary concern is not the current economic situation, but rather the fact that there does not appear to be a clear vision for how Egypt can overcome these challenges and set the economy on a stronger growth trajectory,” says October Pharma CEO Ahmed Zaghloul You were last interviewed by…

Pharma The founder of the Middle East’s largest pharmaceutical company, EIPICO, discusses the evolution of the Egyptian pharmaceutical industry over the last 50 years, and his hopes for the industry over the coming decades. Dr. Borhan, you became Chairman of El Kahira Pharmaceuticals in 1962, and established EIPICO in 1980. In…

Pharma Eva Pharma is one of the fastest growing pharmaceutical companies in the MENA region, and CEO Riad Armanious is aiming to take the company from the 21st ranked generic company at the regional level to third over the next five years, while building business and operations on the ground in…

Pharma Teva Benelux and Nordics’ GM lifts the lid on how the company has grown to become the market leader in the Netherlands. Looking at Teva’s activities, your market leader position in the Netherlands and your global ambitions, a truly ambitious culture emanates from TEVA’s achievements. Where does this drive come from?…

Pharma Marcyrl grew 40 percent and jumped from 15th to 9th place in the Egyptian market in 2014. With growth remaining strong, the board explains the keys to success for doing business in an unstable environment, and shares their plans for expansion, including a nearly completed hormonal facility. Marcyrl has expanded…

Pharma OrganoPharma’s founder and chairman Dr. Mowfak Sakr explains how he founded his company to try and provide the 40 million people in Egypt who lack healthcare insurance of any kind with safe, effective, and affordable medicines, and shares his vision for expanding the company internationally. Dr. Sakr, what is OrganoPharma…

Pharma Enrique Hausermann, CEO of EG, the Stada Group’s Italian affiliate for its generics business, discusses the progress the company has made since 2009, the promising areas for growth he sees emerging and the market environment for generics companies in Italy today. When we last spoke in 2009, you told us…

Pharma Pharmed Healthcare is the only Egyptian company to hold a License from the innovator to produce generic sofosbuvir, but faces competition from at least ten different companies in the market. Given your experience in trying to combat the hepatitis C virus (HCV), which is an epidemic in Egypt, what are some…

Pharma Patrick Choay discusses his first foray into the pharmaceutical business world, talks about the highlights of his long and interesting career, his balanced partnership strategy for the Choay Group and the importance of cultivating a business environment conducive to entrepreneurship. What led you to launch your own group, Patrick Choay…

Pharma Massimiliano Rocchi, Managing Director at Accord Italy shares his view on the story behind Accord’s success in Europe, the key differentiating elements for any generics company in a market with staunch competition, and his strategy for keeping the momentum in Accord Italy’s growth over the next few years. Accord is…

pharma The Netherlands boasts a strong service sector for the life science industries locally and globally. Sinensis Life Sciences CEO, Ruud Santing, discusses his company’s history and its offering that covers the whole range of pharmaceutical testing and of small-scale manufacturing of clinical trial materials. Sinensis Life Sciences was founded in…