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CSR The President Director of Novartis Indonesia talks about the strong competition his company faces from local generics manufacturers, and his perspectives on the other challenges currently facing his company in the Indonesian market. You mentioned earlier that the current 20 percent growth of Novartis Indonesia is still possible because the…

Generics Executive Director, Teodoro B. Padilla, and Reiner W. Gloor, Adviser of Pharmaceutical & Healthcare Association of the Philippines (PHAP) argue that certain government initiatives, like discounted prices for senior citizens and students without financing them, put a perilous amount of pressure on the sector, and the necessity of raising awareness…

Biosimilars Jim Keon, Preisdent of CGPA, discusses the cost-saving benefits that generic drugs have offered Canada, and offers his insights into Canada’s intellectual property regime and the challenges of pricing in Canada. As a privileged witness to the evolution of the Canadian generic industry, what have been some of the defining…

Generics Dr. Chen, you joined US-based Anchen Pharmaceuticals in 2009 to help the company form a spin-off in Taiwan. Why did a US-based company look to establish itself in Taiwan, and then export back to the US? In my view, the US is not a very attractive environment for a company…

Aspen Labs Marked socio-economic differences in Mexico are playing an important role in pushing the uptake of generics, and these issues are starting to affect multinational corporations (MNCs). MNCs are being forced to open up and diversify, quite simply to have their fingers in as many pies where they can compete successfully.…

Generics The president & CEO of Canada’s largest generics player considers the current market dynamics for generic products, including IP regulation, generic penetration, and the advantages of balancing branded and non-branded products.  What was the strategy behind the integration of Novopharm into Teva? Novopharm is one of the pioneers in the…

Generics In the first part of this two-part interview, the Chairman of TTY Biopharm considers the success of his long-term strategy to streamline TTY’s portfolio and focus on the company’s strengths, and talks about the opportunities in Asia for companies that have followed a similar path to TTY. To read the…

Generics Janssen has historically had a very strong focus on emerging markets. In today’s world, where growth for the pharmaceutical industry overwhelmingly comes from emerging markets, where do we find the Nordics?  What is the relevance of the Nordics for the country’s global footprint?  Jansen has preserved the cluster model. We…

Generics Calvin Tsai and Jack Wu talk about their two-pronged international approach through pharmaceuticals and nutricare. The head of the nutricare business elaborates on the challenge of introducing milk products to the Asian market in the current climate, and the head of the pharma business explains the company’s long-term strategy for…

Generics A perspective on Indonesia’s booming market for contraceptive products from Hendra Gunawan, managing director of PT Tunggal Idaman Abdi, one of Indonesia’s leading players in the sector. To cope with the growing demand for contraceptive driven by 65 million women of reproductive age, the company is building a second hormone…

Generics Tom Rönnlund discusses the current state of the pharmaceutical industry in the Nordics in this time of austerity, and offers opinions on reference pricing and cooperation in the region. How have the markets in Denmark and Sweden evolves over the past five years, since the financial crisis started and austerity…

Generics Fergal Murphy, Chairman of the Association of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers in Ireland, discusses with pharamaboardroom.com the difficulties in such a small market and how the industry is adapting to the needs of Ireland by working closely with the government to find the right price point for products and increasing awareness of…