04.08.2014

Friday morning, after five spurned bids, AbbVie , the North Chicago-based pharmaceutical giant finally closed in on a deal to buy Irish drugmaker Shire for $54 billion. One key consequence of the deal: AbbVie will change its tax domicile from Illinois to the U.K., reducing its tax rate.

05.02.2014

Analysts of company "Farm-ROST" analyzed pharmacy sales of the 2011-2013 and made a forecast for 2014.

01/24/2014

Over the past 50 years, most pharmaceutical companies and retail pharmacies increased steadily, including in the emerging markets. In the nearest future pharmaceutical industry will face a choice of strategy of development. The first strategy - is the preservation of the existing development model that will become less profitable because of increased competition and government regulation. The second strategy involves innovation, which is more risky, but the yield of such strategies will be higher.

12.25.2013

Greater access to medicines by the world’s rapidly-expanding middle class, coupled with stronger economic prospects in developed nations, will bring total spending on medicines to the $1 trillion threshold in 2014 and to $1.2 trillion by 2017, the IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics has reported.

12.23.2013

Revenues for brand-name drugmakers will rise just 2%-3% in 2014, forecasts ratings agency Fitch, but it adds that global pharmaceuticals is still one of its highest-rated industries, and that the sector outlook remains “stable.” 

11.07.2013

Growth in India’s pharmaceutical market has slowed to 9.8% this year after increasing 16.6% in 2012, according to a new report. This slowdown can be attributed to India’s new drug pricing policy and a number of “regulatory interventions” over the last year, says the study, which is published by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC).

11.05.2013

With a prescription drug market valued at $4.7 billion in 2012, Poland holds “strategic importance” for multinational drugmakers looking beyond the major markets for growth opportunities, according to a new report. 

10.30.2013

Market conditions require from TOP-management constant searching of opportunities to improve the efficiency of companies, improving the supply chain of medicines, introduction of new marketing tools that are aimed at reducing costs, etc.

How to improve supply chain efficiency by using practices FMCG? Should the company engage experts without medical education from the FMCG industry? How to cut the cost on promotion using new Internet tools?

We’ve prepared the material on the latest trends in pharmaceutical marketing.

10.29.2013

According to the latest report from PMR, a research and consulting company, entitled “OTC market in CIS countries 2013. Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan. Comparative analysis and development forecasts for 2013-2015” the OTC market in the region will increase by around 13% in euro in 2013 and will be worth around €10bn.

10.14.2013

Nowadays there are many sites in the Internet that provide information about the clinics and specialist that allows getting medical advice on-line. In spite of this, the information presented on sites of this nature, is highly questionable. Unknown quality database of physicians and their authenticity, individuality of the doctors online is absent, it is not clear how to compare doctors, reviews are often unreliable.