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Tunisia Sara Masmoudi, general manager at Teriak, one of Tunisia’s top three pharmaceutical companies, sums up the evolution the company has undergone since she took over its direction in 2003 at age 32. She also talks about the recent acquisition Teriak has made of Cinpharm, a Cameroonian manufacturer, in line with…

Tunisia Ridha Charfeddine, founding CEO of Unimed and president of the National Chamber of the Pharmaceutical Industry (CNIP) discusses enforcing European quality standards in Tunisia, the CNIP’s role in guiding pharmaceutical and medical device companies in Tunisia, as well as his entrepreneurial journey with Unimed, now the preferred partner of the…

Tunisia Ali Achouri of Laboratoires Generika in Tunisia discusses his success story, his attentiveness to the satisfaction of its customers, the importance of geographical and cultural proximity with pharmaceutical companies in Maghreb, and how Generika will soon offer its services for the production of inhalable dosage forms as well as various…

Austria Barbara Rangetiner and Josef Weinberger of the Austrian affiliate of Octapharma, the largest privately owned human protein products manufacturer in the world, discuss the strategic significance of Austria to the group, the nation’s historical excellence in plasma and hematology, and recent upgrades to the affiliate’s manufacturing and fractionation capabilities Vienna…

Tunisia Walid Lakhdar, country business unit head for Tunisia and Libya at Pfizer, stresses the company’s ongoing dedication to patients in Tunisia. This was illustrated by the significant investments Pfizer has made in Tunisia after the revolution and still continues to make. Lakhdar talks about Pfizer’s successful partnerships in the country…

Austria Dr. Wolfgang Schnitzel, general manager of Shire Austria, and Karl-Heinz Hofbauer, site lead Vienna and managing director for the Technical Operations business, discuss the huge impact of Shire’s 32 billion USD acquisition of Baxalta that has grown the workforce from a few Shire employees in Austria to 3,500. Furthermore, they…

Austria Martin Prinz, CTO of Croma-Pharma, a family-owned Austrian aesthetic dermatology company, discusses the evolution of the company over the years and their specialist, ever-expanding portfolio. Additionally, he documents the role of training clinics in establishing a vertical business model and provides an overview of the company’s growing global reach, namely…

India The secretary-general of the Indian Drug Manufacturers Association (IDMA) gives his insight into the current state of the Indian pharma industry, the IDMA’s role in raising the quality of Indian-made products, and the country’s vital role in the global supply chain. IDMA is celebrating its 55th anniversary in India and…

Austria Bernhard Wittmann, managing director of Sigmapharm and MoNo, discusses the company’s product portfolio and the diverse tailored services for their partners. Furthermore, he provides an in-depth look into MoNo’s new 20 million EUR (24 million USD) CMO production plant that will be completed in 2019. The ten-fold increase in capacity…

Canada Jim Keon, President of the CGPA, discusses how the Canadian generics industry is adapting to the current period of political transition and how it engages in talks with the government and other stakeholders to educate them about the costly and complex process of generic drug production. Jim, we had the…

Austria Dr. Dietmar Katinger, CEO of Polymun, an Austrian R&D and contract manufacturing company, discusses the challenges CMO companies face within the Austrian market and increasing industry regulations. He also provides an overview of Austria’s ability to accelerate its stature as an innovation hub. Could you introduce the scope of the…

Tunisia Inès Fradi, general manager of the DPM (Directory of the Pharmacy and Medicine in Tunisia), explains the particularities of the Tunisian healthcare system and the work of the DPM in regulatory affairs as well as its interactions with the other private and public entities. She presents the recent achievements of…