Tagged with Exports

Puerto Rico Many of Puerto Rico’s companies, large and small, are exporting. This brings the territory a level of international competitiveness which it might not otherwise obtain. But it also calls for a move from a mindset which asks how the country’s firms can support the success of others to a concern…

Pharma Dr. Mohamed El Ganayni, Managing Director at UniPharma discusses the challenges in standing out among a crowd of Egyptian pharmaceutical manufacturers, elaborates on his ambitions to become a Top 30 local pharma player and gives an insight into his strategy to enter the European market by 2020. To begin, can…

pharma With almost thirty years of experience in the life sciences sector, local Dutch consultancy firm Baggerman Farma Consult offers a wide portfolio of services to its clients in the pharmaceutical and life sciences industry to meet all of their regulatory needs. Kees Baggerman, CEO and founder, highlights the new Gateway…

pharma The managing director of Southern Medical, Malan de Villiers illustrates the sheer diversity of the company’s current activities and portfolio within South Africa as a leading implant devices company, while depicting his vision on the South African medical device market. He also reveals the competitive and regulatory challenges in the…

Pharma The Puerto Rico Trade and Export Company (CCE) helps small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) stimulate their business in Puerto Rico and abroad. Frankie Chévere, CCE’s executive director, discusses the successes of the agency since 2013. You came to CCE in 2013; what were the first challenges you had to address…

Thailand Thailand is not traditionally known to be a manufacturing center due to its ever-changing policies, but OLIC (Thailand) Limited has risen as the nation’s number one contract manufacturing organization (CMO). OLIC’s managing director, Toyoyuki Kamide, talks about the company’s new manufacturing facility, its merger with Fuji Pharma, and its status…

Thailand The Government Pharmaceutical Organization’s Managing Director, Dr. Nopporn Cheanklin, tells PharmaBoardroom about its plans to launch 20 new products, its seaarch for medicines whose patents expire in the next few years, and the prospects for exports to Laos, Cambodia and Myanmar. What ambitions for growth does the organization have both in Thailand…

medical devices The CEO of Ascendis Health talks about their business model, being a long-term investment company that brings together healthy businesses in the healthcare industry, and how the diversification of their product range and customer base ensures it remains a stable, resilient business. Ascendis Health is a fast growing JSE listed pharma…

vaccines BioNet’s CEO, Pham Hong Thai, shares his thoughts on BioNet’s new vaccine that will be launched in the coming year, his belief in Thailand as a research and clinical trials center, and the growth plans for BioNet over the coming years. What drove you to co-found the company and how…

Janssen John O’Hara is the general manager and vice president of Janssen’s facilities in Puerto Rico as well as the head of the Janssen campus. He discusses the affiliate’s rapid growth curve in the last three years through its dedication towards people, processes and community. What are the origins of Janssen’s…

manufacturing One of the directors of Romania’s number one producer of suppositories and the only in-country manufacturer of contraceptive ovules speaks out about how the country is fast becoming a regional manufacturing hub and preferred destination for final  batch customisation. He also talks extensively about the state of GMP in the country. Magistra…

locals The CEO of Centurion shares his ambitious vision for the company’s expansion into plasma products, biotech, orphan drugs, and generic injectables over the coming years, while simultaneously developing sales in more than twenty countries across the EU, CIS, GCC and MENA regions. As a company working on bringing biotech production to Turkey,…