Tagged with Ukraine

Ukraine Dmytro Spitsyn, General Manager of Teva Ukraine, which proudly stands as the largest international company operating in the country, documents the challenges he faced and the strategies he implemented to overcome the 2013 crisis in Ukraine, while Teva has been positioning itself as a company committed to increasing life expectancy…

Ukraine Tatyana Pechaeva, Managing Director of the Lekhim Group, one of Ukraine’s top ten domestic pharmaceutical companies, shares the main principles of her strategy which have enabled Lekhim to display high growth rates over recent years despite the country’s unstable economy. The Lekhim group of companies was one of the pioneers…

Ukraine Alexandra Sologub, managing director of Liktravy, the leading herbal pharmaceutical company in Ukraine, describes the skills she has brought over from her experience working for Darnitsa and TEVA and goes into depth about the challenges and opportunities she identifies for the company as she endeavors to gain contacts with the…

Ukraine Victoria Tarabanova, country manager of the Ukrainian office of Wörwag Pharma, a company dedicated to treating diabetic comorbidities such as neuropathic, cardiovascular and neurological diseases, provides insights into the company’s remarkable efforts to enhance Ukraine’s health ecosystem and its enduring commitment to Ukrainian patients and physicians – even during the…

Ukraine Dr. Natalya Gudz, head of the State Service of Ukraine on Medicines and Drugs Control (SMDC), provides her vision for the development of Ukraine’s key regulatory authority and the win-win relationship she wants to bolster between the pharmaceutical and healthcare companies operating in Ukraine and SMDC’s international counterparts. You took…

Ukraine Denis Shevchenko, founder of the NGO and charitable foundation PharmVarta, provides insights into the main initiatives of this independent, non-profit organization that has freely supplied Ukrainian patients with more than 1.5 million packs over the past 18 months, while he also highlights some critical regulatory updates that could further improve…

Ukraine Alexander Markus, chairman of the board of the recently set up German-Ukrainian Chamber of Industry and Commerce, provides insights into the new dynamics driving the growth of Ukraine’s foreign trade as well as the chamber’s strategic priorities to further enhance the thriving bilateral business relationship between the two countries. Leveraging…

Ukraine Dr. Volodymyr Redko, executive director of Ukraine’s Association of Pharmaceutical Research and Development (APRaD), which gathers together 15 international R&D-driven companies, provides insights into the perspective of international innovators vis-à-vis the numerous regulatory and structural reforms that are set to transform the country’s health system, while highlighting the importance that…

Roche Ukraine As a leader responsible for heading Roche’s operations since its establishment of an LLC in Ukraine in 2009, what do you consider have been the main achievements of the company? The last two years have been very important and active for the development of Roche in Ukraine, particularly since we…

Nobel Pharma Ukraine Nobel Pharma has quite a history in the CIS region as this region is becoming increasingly important for the company. What is the company’s story in Ukraine? Nobel Pharma Ukraine has been established 6 years ago, we have finished 5 years of active marketing in Ukraine. First let me provide…

Teva Ukraine Since 2006 Teva has been on a solid phase of growth and consolidation, mainly through the acquisitions of IVAX in 2006, Pliva (Barr) in 2008 and ratiopharm in 2010, which have transformed the company from the number 40 global pharmaceutical player to a top-10 pharma company today. As the person…

Nycomed Ukraine Following Takeda’s acquisition of Nycomed earlier this year, how has the transaction affected your operations in Ukraine and what synergies were generated by it? Regarding the integration process, we are adapting our corporate cultures as quickly as possible. Luckily, I found out that both our cultures are very similar. It…