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Apotex Czech Republic The Czech Republic is home to Apotex’s oldest branch within a Europe, established in 1992. You yourself joined the organization in 1993. What has been this company’s growth trajectory in the market? There is a very prosaic reason for our early establishment in the Czech market as Apotex’s oldest international…

Merck Czech Republic Mr. Bartoš, you are celebrating your 15th anniversary with Merck this year, and your international career has offered you the opportunity to work throughout Europe. Over these years, how have you seen the 344-year-old Merck evolve and strengthen as a company, and how is this strength reflected here in the…

Gedeon Richter Czech Republic Mr. Gyürüsi, Gedeon Richter is a 111-year-old company that is synonymous with the Central and Eastern European pharma industry. The business has been present in Czechoslovakia since 1956, and has acted independently in the Czech Republic since 1992. Can you give our readers a more detailed idea of the history…

ACRO Czech Republic Dr. Janda, can you please begin by introducing our readers to the ACRO-CZ, and explicate its mission on this market? Mimicking the European standards, we also wanted to connect all the national associations so in the 1990s we created ACRO-CZ that had only four or five members. We started to…

AbMax You spent two decades in the US as an academic, executive, and entrepreneur, and then left to return to China and found AbMax. What’s the story behind how you came back to China ? I first went to the US in 1986 to pursue the American Dream. At that time,…

European Union Chamber of Commerce in China The Chamber recently released this year’s European Business in China Business Confidence Survey – what were some of its key takeaways? There are four main points to the Survey. The first has to do with not only China but the rest of the world. China’s growth has been stronger than…

Baxter France Baxter is approaching 40 years in France, what have been the major milestones of the group during this period and what is the importance of France to the group? During the time we have been present in France there have been key transformations for the company as a whole. Historically,…

Lundbeck China Since this interview, Michael Ryde has left Lundbeck China and is now working as Commercial Counsellor, Teamleader Health, at the Danish Embassy in Beijing. Oscar Parra currently holds the position of General Manager for Lundbeck China. Lundbeck originally sold its products in China exclusively through partners for several years. What…

Servier Brasil When we met Servier Brazil five years ago the company had major ambitions: ‘grow more than 10% for the five following years’. How have these expectations turned out to be? Actually, these projections turned out to be quite conservative. In the last two years Servier has doubled its Brazilian revenues…

Octapharma Brazil Mr. Mauricio, you’ve mentioned that Brazil is a different kind of market for Octapharma, one strongly based on price, and that because of this it’s hard to add value. Could you delve a bit deeper and elaborate on this point? Before delving into the Brazilian market situation, it is important…

BOIRON Czech Republic In the Czech Republic, homeopathic medicines were prohibited during the communistic period, but found resurgence after 1989. Can you give us an overview of the development of this form of treatment in the Czech market, and speak about the role that BOIRON has had in the evolution of the segment?…

Sdružení výrobců volně prodejných léčivých přípravků (SVOPL-OTC) Mr. Kotek, can you please begin by introducing us to the SVOPL and telling us what the mission is here in the Czech Republic? We are a relatively new Association that was founded only back in 2000. Before, we were a branch of a larger Association of international drug producers…