Gelpharma Gelpharma started in 1999 and its main strength lies in manufacturing. Please can you give us a more detailed history of the company and its major milestones since opening? We started over forty years ago from a company called Vitae Laboratorios that for many years had two soft-gel products manufactured…
Farmacias del Ahorro First of all, congratulations on the new distribution warehouse in Lerma, State of Mexico . You mentioned that there were two more to come: can you give us a bit more information about timings and differentiation strategies moving forward in terms of distribution to increase your share of the pharmacy…
Asociace inovativního farmaceutického průmyslu (AIFP) Mr. Dvořáček, in 2010, the AIFP commissioned a study on the economic footprint of the innovative pharmaceutical industry in the Czech Republic. Can you begin by expounding the results of this study? The footprint of the innovative pharma industry in this market is not particularly large relative to other industries,…
AstraZeneca Mexico There have been a lot of changes in the Mexican pharmaceutical industry in the last four to five years, most notably the new drug registration process being put in place. In your view, what have been the most significant changes, and how have they affected the market? The biggest shift…
Ali Bin Ali Medical Mr. Jaouni, what do you understand as the vision of the Ali Bin Ali family in betting on the medical field and establishing Ali Bin Ali Medical? The Ali Bin Ali Group has represented Siemens Medical since the late 1970s. In 1998, the owners had a vision for a booming…
Sanofi Mexico Sanofi acquired Kendrick in 2009. Obviously the thinking behind it was to diversify your products into pure generics, but what were the expectations for the move? We have a diversified strategy focused on patient´s needs. As a leader in the industry, we changed the way we see and understand healthcare.…
Novo Nordisk Mexico Mexico is number one in child obesity and number two in adult obesity in the world. This is one of the reasons that diabetes is rapidly increasing and the Mexican government has made its treatment a priority. Do you think Mexico is adequately equipped for this phenomenal prevalence? There has…
Qatar Investment Promotion Department (IPD) Mr. Alderbesti, can you please begin by giving our readers an overview of the core agenda of the Investment Promotion Department of the Qatari Ministry of Trade and Industry since you took the reins of the organization, and the role of healthcare and life sciences in your activities? I will…
Aamal Medical Mr. Shehata, one year after you joined Aamal Medical, Aamal Company went public on the Qatar stock exchange. How did the listing affect your operations at the Medical division? There were many changes implemented, because a number of governance and quality control elements came into the picture. We were faced…
Vanquish Mexico Can you give us a brief history of the company since your merger in 2003: the main growth drivers, opportunities and challenges? Laboratorios Vanquish was born in 2003, before that we had another company called Platinum Research. It was a company that used to manufacture active ingredients, and after it…
Almirall Mexico Please can you give us a brief rundown of the last few years in the Mexican pharmaceutical and how the various regulation changes such as the new drug registration process and the suppression of the manufacturing plant law have affected Almirall? At the moment, Almirall is present through affiliates in…
Hayat Pharmaceutical Industries (HPI) The company was one of the last Jordanian pharma companies to be founded and started production only in 1997… How was Hayat able to establish itself among the leading pharma companies in the country so quickly? What is the key ingredient for the company’s success? We started commercial production and…
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