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Pharmacy Guild Australia Would you please introduce The Pharmacy Guild to our readers, giving an insight in its function and its membership? We are the premium body representing community pharmacies in Australia, about 5200 locations including private hospital pharmacies. In reality it is safe to say that we represent all pharmacies that are…

The Irish pharmaceutical industry employs more than 50,000 people, and generates more than 50% of Irish exports. How would the Minister sum the importance of this sector to the Irish state and economy? The Life science industry as a whole employs over 50,000 people of whom over 24,000 are employed…

Watson Pharmaceuticals Earlier this year the company set a crucial step in its internationalization strategy with the acquisition of Ascent. Would you outline the significance of the acquisition within Watson’s global expansion strategy? Watson had through the Arrow acquisition in 2009 actually acquired two Australian businesses, Spirit and Willow Pharmaceuticals. Spirit is…

Ascendas As a pioneering member of Arcasia, before it merged with JTC International and became what is Ascendas today, you know the history of the company very intimately. What are the main elements that have enabled Ascendas to become one of the leading business space solutions provider in the country? I…

Becton Dickinson & Co Central Asia, what is Central Asia in the BD perspective? For us, Central Asia includes all the countries in Asia, except Greater China, India and Japan. What have been the main developments in BD since its establishment in Singapore? BD has been in Singapore since the late 1980s with an…

GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) The company’s current corporate strategy includes a major focus on the Emerging Markets and Asia Pacific (EMAP) region. Concretely, what are the expectations and the main objectives for the Asia Pacific region? GSK Asia Pacific is composed of: North East Asia, South East Asia and South Pacific (this includes countries…

Hoya Surgical Optics Please give us an overview of HOYA Surgical Optics and its operations. HOYA Surgical Optics is a global manufacturer of intraocular lenses (IOLs) — the artificial lens that is put in the eye during cataract surgery when the natural lens clouds over with age and needs to be surgically removed.…

GE Healthcare There has been much hype about emerging markets, especially those in Asia. How important are these markets for GE and what are your respective goals for the next three years? Every company will tell you that emerging markets are an opportunity, otherwise they would not be called emerging markets. From…

ireland Mr. Mazeman, can you please begin by offering a brief overview of your career to date? I am a French pharmacist by training, with expertise in pharmacology. I have worked for Servier for my entire career. I started in the industry as a medical representative for the company. I went…

Just like other European countries, Austria is in the search for meaningful savings in healthcare. Austria’s increasingly price sensitive pharma market is seeing the rise of generic medicines gaining market shares over the past few years – 19% 2008 vs. 26% in 2010. But generic penetration in the country is…

China One of the earliest innovative biotech companies in China, Zensun has developed what its founder Dr. Zhou Mingdong calls a rare made-in-China first-in-class therapeutic candidate, Neucardin®, which has been shown to improve cardiac function, quality of life and exercise capability, and, to reduce all-cause mortality rates in certain patients suffering…

Eurogentec Belgium Mr Delwart, you have been acting CEO of EuroGenTec for an impressive 19 years. During your tenure, what would you say has been the single most important change in the business model of the life sciences industry? The pharmaceutical industry is increasingly being under pressure by the rising costs of…