Indian Drug Manufacturers' Association (IDMA) Since we last met in 2006, the Indian pharmaceutical industry has been doing very well indeed, as a very large number of drugs came off patent. This trend will continue in the coming years. Today this is a crucial moment for India: the industry is at a crossroad. How has…
Ferring Pharmaceuticals Poland As we are just entering 2011, could you share with us the results of the Polish affiliate in 2010? 2010 was for Ferring Poland a year of reconstruction. The affiliate has been rebuilding the business with significant internal changes that are supposed to reflect changes in the external environment. The…
Pharmaceutical Services Division Malaysia The Pharmaceutical Services Division has been around since 1951, what have been the major shifts in its objectives since then? When the pharmacy service came into existence in this country it operated under British law and the acts and therefore regulations have been in place since before Malaysia’s independence. Malaysia…
Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) Your role as Chair of the Executive Board is a mix between CEO and CMO. On a daily basis, which do you see yourself as more – the Chief Executive Officer of the hospital or the Chief Medical Officer? The choice to have a Chairman of the Executive Board with…
Organisation of Pharmaceutical Producers of India (OPPI) Our last report on India dates back to 2006, right after the Patent Law was passed. What developments have you seen happening in the industry since then? There has been a paradigm shift with the Product Patent Regime coming in place in 2005. The era from 1970 to 2005 has…
Pyridam Farma Pyridam Farma has achieved and maintained the leading position in terms of growth in the Indonesian pharmaceutical industry for two years. What strategic choices have caused Pyridam to outperform its peers? Our strategy has three pillars: marketing, human resources, and quality. Three years ago Pyridam Farma redesigned its marketing strategies,…
Cambridge Major Laboratories Europe It has now been 12 years since you co-founded ChemShop. One of the busiest, but probably most exciting moments in that period must have been the merger with CML in 2007. At that time, now global CEO Michael Major spoke of seamless integration. Was it really that easy in practice?…
ADAMED Adamed was founded in 1986 by your father, Mr. Marian Adamkiewicz. The company is today still fully-owned by your family, which is remarkable in such an industry, where family-run businesses are less and less frequent. What are the advantages of this situation? Today the Adamed Group is one of the…
Malaysian Medical Association (MMA) One of the key factors for the growth in the pharmaceutical market has been the increasing professionalism of healthcare in Malaysia. How does the MMA contribute to the professionalism of it s members? It has always been the remit of the MMA to establish strong professional practice in Malaysia. Doctors…
Malta Alan Camilleri, chairman of Malta Enterprise—the government agency responsible for facilitating and stimulating the development of Malta—recalls the words of a foreign investor, who had taken stake in Maltese business. The investor imagined what he would say to other potential promoters, if asked whether they should put their finances…
Nycomed Malaysia Before joining Nycomed you spent a year working at the Drug Control Authority (DCA). What did your regulatory friends say when you told them you were off to join the dark side of working for MNCs? I was a pharmacist by training and the DCA for me was a type…
Invida Malaysia When we spoke to Herbert Dittmar of Bayer, he said that there were no specific challenges in Malaysia that could not be found elsewhere. How do you convince companies of the need for the services offered by Invida? We actually have many companiesseeking to partner with Invida. Invida offers a…
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