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PAREXEL India PAREXEL has had a long-term commitment to India. Could you give us a brief overview of your activities in the country? PAREXEL offers clinical development services throughout India. In 2004, PAREXEL entered into a joint alliance with Synchron then expanded our presence in India. In 2007, PAREXEL opened an office…

Novo Nordisk India Private Limited Novo Nordisk seems somewhat of an exception to the MNCs that recently entered India, as it already set up its HQ in Bangalore in 1994. How do you explain this relatively early entry? Traditionally, Novo Nordisk’s strategy has been to be in the market very early. We aspire to create…

GSK Turkey Mr Fadıllıoğlu, after a previous position at Abbott, you were recently appointed head of GSK Turkey. How different is GSK as an organization? What new therapeutic areas, processes, or corporate culture did you have the chance to discover and to adapt to? The team members would be able to judge…

Array TCS Life Sciences and Healthcare vertical was created within the Tata Group 10 years ago. Can you explain to the readers, how such a diversified group such as Tata decided to create TCS Life sciences and Healthcare, and give us an overview of your main activities. TCS is a company…

Crown Bioscience Hu Jintao recently announced his ambitions for China to be “an innovative country” by 2020? Could you speak to the likelihood of achieving this in terms of biotechnology as you see it? In the biotech area, China has come a long way. I got my college undergraduate degree in China…

Bausch and Lomb Czech Republic Mr. Bruzl, we often interview pharmaceutical managers that studied medicine, pharmaceutical science, or business—we do not interview many managers that have a background in law. How did you find yourself working for this industry? Do you find that it has been a good fit for you? When I was studying…

Arch Pharmalabs Arch Pharmalabs started its operations in 1999 when you bought a plant in Hyderabad with a turnover of 2Mn USD. 12 years later, you have grown to a 300Mn USD company with 11 manufacturing plants. What triggered the acquisition of the Hyderabad plant, and what have been the main milestones…

Cachet Pharmaceuticals Pvt. Ltd. Cachet Pharmaceuticals was founded in 1978, what have been your main achievements? We started as a manufacturing company. In the early 1990s we started our own marketing and since then we have grown progressively and we are proud to say that today we are nearly 200 crores company with a…

DSM India With almost EUR 9bn turnover and more than 22,000 people worldwide, Royal DSM has truly grown into an MNC. Within the global market, there is no doubt that India has become a country of rising opportunities… Can you first elaborate what DSM India represents to the Group worldwide? Every 5…

Dr Reddy's Laboratories Looking back at the company’s recent challenges, we see a very tough 2009, largely due to the Betapharm acquisition and the subsequent changes in German regulations. How do you explain the situation there and what measures did you take to turn the situation around? Germany, and in particular the Betapharm…

India Since the company’s foundation in 1993, Hetero has clearly come a long way. What were the key success factors at that time, which laid the groundwork of a successful company? First of all, I am a scientist by background, and before founding Hetero I had been working at Dr. Reddy’s…

Merck Limited Over the years, multinational corporations (MNCs) have increasingly been penetrating the Indian pharmaceutical markets. How have you observed this trend throughout your career? Based on India’s macro-economic growth of around 8 to 9 percent in the last 7 to 8 years, the pharmaceutical industry generally grows 4 to 5 percent…