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Pronaos Dr. Sommermeyer, you’ve spent approximately two decades working for pharmaceutical companies throughout Europe. From a personal standpoint, why did you decide to leave the industry and found a consultancy? I started my career in research, and then moved to marketing and strategic planning. After ten years spent in headquarter functions,…

FeBelGen Looking into your background, we see that you’ve spent 8 years at pharma.be, where you were advocating the traditional drug producers. What encouraged you to head FeBelGen since 2006, representing the generic and biosimilar drugs industry in Belgium? When I started to head FeBelGen in 2006, my goal/objective was –…

Merck Belgium In your 8 years of experience within the group, how would you classify the competitive advantages derived for the company’s unique familial ownership structure? Due to its history and strong values, Merck certainly does have a specific corporate culture which helps to shape its unique character. This is further enhanced…

MSD Belgium It truly seems that you have pharma in your genes, with a father who successfully developed a migraine drug in addition to your 4 years practicing medicine and now continuing an 18 year career with MSD. What distinguishes MSD as a pharmaceutical company in your opinion? At MSD, we are…

Servier Czech Republic You joined this affiliate in October of 2011, having spent the preceding three years as GM for Servier Slovakia. What are the principal differences you found between these two markets? The first difference is of course the size of the market—the Czech Republic has a market value of approximately 2Bn…

China Chen Qiyu, chairman of Fosun Pharma, discusses how the company is helping China achieve its ‘Healthy China 2020’ goals as well as its unique business model and company culture. Fosun Pharma is an integrated pharmaceutical company with interests all along the value chain, from API to finished products, distribution, medical…

BeAPP Can you provide us with an overview of BeAPP’s missions & objectives and your role as President of the association? Stefaan Vancayzeele (SV): The primary mission of the Belgian association of pharmaceutical physicians is to support and represent the interests of its members throughout their careers. In addition to this,…

pharma.be Mr Neels, can you please begin by introducing our readers to pharma.be and describe its key activities and vision? pharma.be is the General Association of the Pharmaceutical Industry in Belgium that is currently composed of approximately 140 pharmaceutical companies with operations in Belgium. As a full partner of physicians, pharmacists,…

Hospira Hospira Mexico is not only the control centre for Central America and Caribbean operations, but it is the Latin American regional office. Why was such importance given to Mexico in this respect, and not for example, to Brazil? First of all, the Hospira model is a shared services model. It…

Biofarma Natural CMD Biofarma Natural CMD started operations in 1992 as a company focused on natural products. Please can you give us an insight into how the company has grown since then? I founded the company in 1992, and we had just four people working in the company in total, and we started…

Promomed Mr Vandiest, it’s always a pleasure for us to interview the entrepreneurs behind the businesses we meet. Can you tell us more about the vision behind the creation of Promomed? Since its foundation, Promomed has been focused on providing outsourced sales representative solutions for its clients. Certainly, this is by…

Biocodex Although Biocodex has a commercial presence in over 100 countries, it currently operates only five subsidiaries, one of them being Biocodex Belgium. What were primary motivating factors behind this strategic decision and what is the importance of Belgium to the company’s global operations and overall performance? The Belgian subsidiary was…