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Bayer: cuts start in Latam

Bayer has started making cuts in Latin America after its negative Q3 financial results. In Chile, 70% of staff have been laid off. Paraguay, Bolivia, and Uruguay will follow After reporting negative results for Q3, the German multinational Bayer has begun making cuts, and they're already being felt in...

Schneider Electric: mission-critical applications

The French digital automation and energy management company Schneider Electric will host a webinar on Tuesday September 26. The meeting will focus on energy solutions for mission-critical applications crucial for the performance of the companies in pharma and healthcare, among others. By nature, companies in the field of pharmaceuticals and...

Argentine pharma faces uncertainty amid devaluation

The devaluation of the Argentine peso following an upset in presidential election primaries on Sunday is causing difficulties for many industries, including the pharmaceutical sector. Many sources tell Pharmabiz that the drastic changes in economic variables are generating strong cost pressures amid an already complex economic situation, with retail...

Varifarma loses Octapharma licence

The Argentine drugmaker Varifarma has lost its licence from Octapharma, a Swiss multinational focused on blood products. The products are now licensed to a new firm called Infinity, which has repatriated the Argentine Juan Pablo Amber from Chile, where he had been general manager Australia's CSL Behring. Licensing agreements with multinationals...

Servier lays off reps in Argentina

The French pharma company Servier has joined the list of multis to strip down their subsidiaries in Argentina. The company behind the vascular protector Daflon is laying off sales reps, district managers and other executives of various ranks as it faces shortages and gaps in access. The economic situation in...

IQVIA World Review: the view for 2023

The pharmaceutical industry met in Buenos Aires today for the traditional annual IQVIA World Review. Various speakers described the current industry panorama at both the global and local levels. The consultancy projects a fall of between -1 and -3% for Argentina in 2023. Today, Wednesday May 24, the specialist consultancy IQVIA held its...

Paraguay: Scavone group eyes regional expansion

The pharmaceutical industry in Paraguay is developing rapidly, with key players investing to grow both in the country and regionally in Latin America. A clear example is the Scavone group, which boasts a highly diversified industrial capacity. Pharmabiz paid a visit. Here in Argentina, the national pharmaceutical industry has historically stood...

3M Health Care exits Argentina

The US-based group 3M has taken the decision to stop trading the products from its Health Care business in Argentina. This includes its hospital products, denstiry products care and Microbiology. It's not yet been defined if the company will select a local representative. The exodus of multinationals from Argentina...

Grifols exits Argentina – full report

Spain's Grifols has abandoned its operations in Argentina. The decision comes amid global cuts following the plasma shortage provoked by the COVID-19 pandemic, which caused an major impact on financial results in 2020 and 2021. Argentina's own economic challenges were also a factor in the decision. Staff in the Commercial, Administrative...

Argentina says no to heated tobacco productos

Argentina’s Ministry of Health has held up a red card for all devices used as substitutes for traditional tobacco products. Back in 2011, the national regulator, the ANMAT, had said no to the import, commercialisation and advertising of electronic cigarettes. Now the national government has issued a measure against...

Ferring buys Massone group

The Swiss biopharmaceutical company Ferring has bought the Argentine group Massone and its two two production plants. The group was a local API provider for the multi, specializing in assisted fertilization. Ferring will keep on the entire technical staff, while the Uruguayan Federico Gomes de Freitas will take charge...

Buhl Group now owns Laboratorios Ferrini

The valuation of Argentine brands is routinely affected by the country's import barriers. Now the longstanding local company Laboratorios Ferrini, best known for its line of sapolan creams, has changed hands. The third generation of the firm's founding family has sold the business to Argentina's Buhl. The emblematic Argentine...

Diaverum bows out in Argentina

Argentina's crumbling social security system continues to weigh on different healthcare subsectors. Now hemodialysis centres have lost another major global player. The Swedish company Diaverum is leaving, following on the heels of the US firm Baxter, which made its exit in 2020. Baxter started the walkout two years ago when...

Novartis seals deal with Roemmers

Switzerland's Novartis has already introduced its new combined structure in Argentina. From tomorrow (Friday July 1), local operations will be led by the Australian Sweta Ghelani. Meanwhile, the multi is leaving its antihypertensives Diovan, Exforge and Entresto and in the hands of the Roemmers group. The latter detail is...

Mundipharma reviews Latin American operations

The British drugmaker Mundipharma, controlled by the US-based Sackler family, has laid off its entire sales force in Argentina. The company is reviewing its operations in Latin America amid the impact of lawsuits brought against its owners in the United States due to Purdue Pharma's role in the opioid...

L’Oréal Argentina: the enemy within

The French cosmetics company L'Oréal lost its focus in Argentina some time ago. But an incident this past week offered more evidence of the company’s current malaise. Its professional products division convened an event at Buenos Aires’ famous Teatro Colón opera house and left its lack of management painfully...

Novartis makes surprise restructuring

The Swiss drugmaker Novartis surprised its staff with a bombshell today. The company's reversing its dual-pillar structure of Pharma and Oncology divisions, combining the two units into a single business. Staff are already holding on tight to their chairs with a strong impact expected across the company, since there are...

mAbxience: Fresenius buys 55%

Drugmakers built from Argentine capital are rarely come up for sale with shareholders remaining firm against the ups and downs seen at the multis who often reverse their investments in the country. But this time, the current went a different way. The Insud group opened the door for Germany's...

Duracell: Genomma replaces Newsan in Argentina

Mexico's Genomma has won the distribution of Duracell in Argentina, bringing an end to the US battery brand's arrangement with local distributor Newsan. Genoma will distribute Duracell's batteries in every sales channel. Back in 2016, Argentina's Newsan, owned by Rubén Cherñajovsky and headed by Luis Galli, made a lot...

Adium to represent Moderna in Latam

Latin America’s Grupo Adium is to represent Moderna in the region. The company, which counts Argentina’s Raffo in its stable, will be the visible face of the US drugmaker’s mRNA-based anti-COVID-19 vaccine. Vaccines for COVID-19 continue to dominate the news, and a new player has joined the scene in Latin...

An end to Osmotica in Argentina

After the entry of North American investors and the Sielecki family having reduced its firepower in the company born on Argentine soil, Osmotica has closed its subsidiary in its birthplace. The local headquarters has been dismantled and around fifty employees have been laid off. Osmotica has changed its name...

Sandoz signs deal with Butantan in Brazil

Public-private partnerships have become very relevant again in light of the Covid-19 pandemic. Now, Brazil's seen a new agreement in the area of biosimilar development. The protagonists on this occasion are the Swiss generics maker Sandoz and Brazil's Instituto Butantan. Last year, the Swiss drugmaker Novartis's generics division Sandoz closed a...

Amgen makes cuts in Argentina

The US drugmaker Amgen is shrinking its structure internationally, and in Argentina about 20 names have already been cut. The multinational's performance has been hit hard by the loss of its patent for the immunotherapeutic drug Neulasta. The multinationals are announcing cuts or reconfigurations of their business left right and centre....

Elly Lilly calls it quits in Argentina

For a second time in its history, the US drugmaker Eli Lilly has decided to close its office in Argentina. The first time was in the 80s, during the presidency of Raúl Alfonsín. At that time, Lilly's withdrawal left the market with a lack of insulin. This time, the...

Novartis: changes in Argentina

The Swiss drugmaker Novartis has switched up its local management in Argentina. The multi has separated the positions of country president and head of Pharma. It’s appointed the Argentine Agustina Ruiz Villamil as the company’s number one and placed the Australian Sweta Ghelani at the helm of Pharma. The second...

Roemmers: deal with BioGaia

The Argentine drugmaker Roemmers continues to add chips to its nutrition business. Now the company has closed a deal with Sweden’s BioGaia to market its probiotic indicated for the reduction of colic in infants. It’s not all COVID-19 in pharma. The Argentine drugmaker Roemmers has entered into a licensing agreement...

Merck: new CEO in Argentina

A new CEO joins the select number of women at the head of drugmakers in Argentina. María Sol Quibel (39) has taken the helm at Germany's Merck in the country. The executive takes the place of Cristian von Schulz-Hausmann who moves to Merck's Mexican office. Germany's Merck broke the status...

Argentine Congress questions drugmakers

Argentina's Chamber of Deputies, chaired by Sergio Massa, today heard from Nicolás Vaquer, Pfizer's general manager in Argentina, and Marcelo Figueiras, president of the national drugmaker Richmond. Both appeared via video link. Next week, representatives from AstraZeneca and the COVAX alliance will appear. This morning, the Argentine parliament began a...

Argentina’s Sputnik fill-finish: analysis

Publicity from the president's office broadcast this weekend declared Argentina "the first country in Latin America to produce doses of the vaccine Sputnik V." But there's still a long way to go. Once Russia actually sends the main active ingredient, it's estimated that the process to obtain the "first...

Moderna vaccine advances in Latam

The US drugmaker Moderna is advancing with its landing plan for Latin America. It's brought on board the Argentine Román Saglio, who has strong expertise in the region. He's been appointed as director of commercial alliances as the company looks to bring its FDA and WHO-approved COVID-19 vaccine to...

Argentina receives 3.83% of its Latin AZ vaccines

It seems a long time has passed since President Alberto Fernández announced last August in a broadcast shown across all TV channels that Argentina would play a fundamental role in the production of a Latin American version of AstraZeneca’s COVID vaccine. Although the initiative was intended to be Argentina’s...

Progress with Latin versions of Sputnik V

Despite not having the OK from the regulator ANVISA, Brazil's União Química has gone ahead and produced its first pilot batches of Sputnik V. And it's not the only new initiative with regards production and packaging of Russia's COVID-19 vaccine in Latin America. In Mexico, the public-private laboratory Birmex has also...

Biosidus pushes interferons for COVID-19

The Biotechnology sector advances slowly but steadily in Argentina, after the recent regulation of the Modern Biotechnology Law. Now the drugmaker Biosidus, owned by Acon Investments, has entered the COVID-19 arena with the signalling proteins interferons. Biosidus continues to focus on biotechnology in Argentina and it's now entering the area...

L’Oréal launches catalogue sales in Argentina

L'Oréal seems to have truly lost its splendour in Argentina. The devaluation of the local currency combined with the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has seen the multi's business collapse in what has become a market of little significance for the corporation. One more sign of this new status...

Argentina: media fuss and confusion over vaccines

The daily back and forths behind the manufacturing and representation of  COVID-19 vaccines has gripped the media around the world, and Argentina is no exception. This week, the Argentine press published a flurry of stories and interviews with Marcelo Figueiras, the visible face of local drugmaker Richmond. In the...

Argentine version of Cheplapharm’s Questran launches

The Argentine drugmaker Temis Lostaló has received the OK from Argentina’s regulator, ANMAT. The company is launching Nivelipol Resina, its own cholestyramine-based product, putting an end to the recurring lack of stock of Questran Light on the local market. The branded drug, which originally belonged to BMS, has been...

Report: COVID-19 vaccines in Latin America

Regulatory agencies in Latin America continue to march ahead with COVID-19 vaccine approvals. Mexico’s COFEPRIS got the ball rolling when it authorised emergency use of Pfizer/BioNTech’s Comirnaty in mid-December. Argentina’s ANMAT was first with the AZ/Oxford vaccine. As COVID-19 vaccination drives continue to get underway globally, the major regulatory agencies...

Argentina OKs Pfizer vaccine for COVID-19

Argentina has just joined the group of countries that have authorised vaccines against COVID-19. The national regulator led by Manuel Limeres has granted authorisation to the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, following Chile and Ecuador. Just before the bells tolls for Christmas, Argentina's drugs regulator, ANMAT, got into full swing. Late on the...

Manufacturing cuts at IMAP

Another German company that left Argentina at the end of last year is now generating new cuts in the sector a year later. Half of the technical staff at what was Gerresheimer's plastic packaging plant, now owned by local drugmaker IMAP, are to go. The plant itself has already been...

Novartis: voluntary redundancies in Argentina

Switzerland's Novartis aims to become a "boutique drugmaker". It's opened negotiations on voluntary redundancies at it looks to downsize its salesforce in Onco-hematology in Argentina. It aims to reduce a division of 25 medical sales representatives by 36%. Multinational drugmakers are steadily refining their portfolios to specialise in increasingly sophisticated niches. Following...

J&J packs up business in Argentina

In November, a third multinational drugmaker will pull out of Argentina. Baxter was the first to go during this year's period of obligatory confinement. It was followed by Pierre Fabre. Now J&J Medical Devices is pulling down the shutters on its orthopaedics business. The products under its DePuy Synthes...

Janssen to trial Covid-19 vaccine in Latam

US giant J&J is one of the host of drugmakers with its foot down on efforts to produce a COVID-19 vaccine. The company, whose pharma division is led by Tatiana Marante in Argentina, is depending heavily on Latin America to test its candidate. Pharmabiz has learned that Argentina and...

Change at the top for Sanofi Argentina?

Remote working has become a definitive part of the corporate environment. French drugmaker Sanofi seems to hold that it's as effective to run Argentine operations from Europe as from Buenos Aires, with its Southern Cone general manager to set up a virtual offfice Switzerland. The ongoing novel coronavirus pandemic has...

Sigman to make Covid-19 vaccine in Argentina

A month ago Argentina's president received the local head of Pfizer to announce that the drugmaker would begin clinical trials in Argentina. The annocement generated the public idea that a vaccine was around the corner. Now expectations are even higher as it's announced that AstraZeneca intends to manufacture...

Catalent to build third Argentine plant

The Softgel specialist Catalent is expanding its capacity in Argentina. Led locally by Hernán Mellone, the company, which dominates the local softgel market, will invest an estimated US$ 5 million in a new plant. US softgel specialist Catalent hasn't been put off by the ongoing lockdown, nor the local...

Megalabs brings cannabidiol to Latam

Regulations on the use of treatments based on cannabidiol vary across the region. In Argentina, the use of medicinal oil must be requsted under "compassionate use". But a major Latin American player has become the representative of a US firm specialising in medicinal cannabis. The major Latin American multinational...

Baxter winds up Argentina operation

The US drugmaker Baxter has closed the doors on its Argentina operation to definitively leave the country. It leaves Argentina's Comarsa as its local representative. Another pharmaceutical multinational has bowed out from Argentina. Pharmabiz has learned that the US giant Baxter is closing its renal care business – its last remaining...

Pierre Fabre exits Argentina

Several major multinational companies have taken the decision to pull out of Argentina during the Covid-19 lockdown. The airline Latam and the sports brand Nike are now followed by the French drugmaker Pierre Fabre. Company restructuring and the local devaluation are the main factors responsible. Pierre Fabre's opening of a new...

Pfizer hypes Argentina vaccine trial

Pfizer's local general manager Nicolás Vaquer visited the presidential residence in Olivos on what was a holiday weekend in Argentina to tell President Alberto Fernández that Pfizer will carry out trials of its Covid-19 vaccine candidates in the country, generating a flurry of media hype. Pfizer's office in Argentina has...

Argentina rescinds Spinraza deal

US drugmaker Biogen has had a setback in Argentina. As the country extends its Covid-19 lockdown, the Ministry of Health has removed Obligatory Medical Program (PMO) status from the company's star product Spinraza after only 10 months, opening the path for an arduous process of negotiation. As new generation medicines...

Local buyer for Takeda’s Hepatalgina

English version Argentina's Elea-Phoenix wants to become the main local player in the OTC sector, which has traditionally been dominated by multinationals. It's taken another step towards that goal with the acquisition of the popular cholagogue Hepatalgina. The novel coronavirus is proving no obstacle against deals in other areas of pharma. Pharmabiz has learned...

L’Oréal: new head in Argentina

English version L'Oréal's Argentine operations will be run from the northern hemisphere with a two-hour time difference for the time being as the new local head waits in Mexico for Argentina to reopen its borders. French cosmetics giant L'Oréal has another new head for Argentina after only ten months. The new...

Clorox: new general manager for Argentina

English version The domestic cleaning giant Clorox has a new general manager in Argentina. The man chosen to head up the local branch is Antonio Mosteiro, formerly of Mondelez. He has wide experience in the mass consumer market and arrives as sales of bleach experience a boom on the back...

Stada offloads Vannier, Argentina

English version:  Germany's Stada was sold a pig in a poke back in 2015, but it didn't take long for the company to notice its low chances of success on the local generics market. Now the company is upping sticks and getting out of Argentina. The generics market in Argentina is...

Lilly: new head in Argentina

English version Increasing numbers of executives are taking up positions remotely. One case is the new number one at US drugmaker Eli Lilly's Argentine office, which is now being led by the Brazilian Felipe Borges dos Reis from Brazil. Another executive has taken up his chair in Argentina remotely as the coronavirus...

Biogen under microscope for COVID-19 outbreak

English version US drugmaker Biogen as well as for Spinraza is now famous as the epicentre of multiple coronavirus cases. In Argentina, its regional director has recovered, but the local branch has become a focal point for expansion of the illness along with the company's other offices. It's already known...

Biogen exec COVID-19 green light

English version US-based Biogen has been one of the drugmakers most affected internationally by the coronavirus pandemic. In Argentina, general manger "Maxi" Gutiérrez has announced he is clear of the virus on his Linkedin account. The general manager of Biogen in Argentina, "Maxi" Gutiérrez, has followed the approach of many of his...

US drugmaker in local COVID-19 quarantine

English version The effects of the global coronavirus pandemic have reached Argentina. Most drugmakers are cancelling congresses, conventions and international meetings. The staff of US drugmaker Biogen's Argentina office are working from home in quarantine after several company executives tested positive for COVID-19. US media reports cite three leaders testing positive in...

Sidus seals deal with Lifescan

English version From April 1. Argentine drugmaker Sidus will be the commercial representative of the LifeScan line of blood glucose monitors in Argentina. The brand, which belongs to the private investment firm Platinum Equity has been licensed to firm owned by the Argüelles family and will have no connection with...

Megalabs snaps up GSK brands

English version The Consumer Health sector is seeing continual reorganisation internationally. Joining the list of pharma multinationals who've bought assets only to sell them on not long afterwards is GSK. The drugmaker has offloaded a trio of mature brands in the Latin America region into the hands of the regional...

Takeda sells 18 brands

English version Since Japan's Takeda acquired Shire in 2018, the drugmaker's course towards a specialist focus has been set. The sale of its portfolio of mature drugs has been predicted. Two local brands have changed hands for now as part of a deal with regional reach. Japan's Takeda has sold...

Pfizer CEO in Argentina

English version Argentina's sky-high inflation isn't stopping the multinationals in the sector. Pfizer's gloval CEO was in the country and even donned the jersey of the national football team. He signed balls and had a tête à tête with local staff. Albert Bourla, global CEO of Pfizer was in Argentina...

B. Braun opens €30 million plant

English version Argentina following the rest of the world and has ordered drugmakers to produce parenteral preparations exclusively through closed system technology. To meet the ANMAT's new regulations, Germany's B. Braun is investing €30 million to build a new plant in Mar del Plata to produce for the local market. German drugmaker...

Argentina’s Bagó: 2019 «disappointing»

English version In the event at Hotel Alvear, the group's Juan Carlos Bagó said it would be the last time he presented on stage. He said he was taking a difficult but mature decision to step back from the limelight but would continue firm in the group. The major Argentine...

Biotoscana changes hands

English version The big candidate was Brazil's Eurofarma., but Biotoscana has today officially revealed its new owner is the Canadian company Knight Therapeutics. A mayor player in the region, its future will be followed closely. It's official: Latin American group Biotoscana has changed hands, with the offer from Canada's Knight...

Regulator halts ranitidine production

English version Argentina's regulator ANMAT is taking measures over ranitidine. On the local market, the leading brand is Taural from Roemmers group, but there are many generics distributed through hospitals and retail. The order only affects oral versions. The ranitidine alert is expanding in Latin America, with Argentina's ANMAT stopping production of new lots and other regional regulators issuing their...

Helsinn signs regional deal

English version Switzerland's Helsinn has closed an agreement with Argentina's Varifarma and Brazil's Blanver for the exclusive licensing and representation of one of its pipeline products in the region. The product in question is the potential oncological drug pracinostat, currently at the development stage. Switzerland's Helsinn has signed exclusive distribution and license agreements with Argentina'sVarifarma and Brazil's Blanver through which the companies...

3M shuts plants in Argentina

English version Multinational conglomerate 3M has decided to shut down all three of its Argentine plants including one that manufactures aerosol nebulizers for asthmatics. It will be the first time a pharma plant has shut down in the country outside bankruptcy procedures. US-based 3M has made the decision to shut down its three manufacturing plants in Argentina, one...

Athenex buys CIDAL

English version The USA's Athenex has announced the acquisition of CIDAL, a Guatemala-headquartered firm focusing on clincal trials and studies that operates in several countries in Latin America.  The CRO (contact research organization) segument comprising companies that focus on clinical studies is proving dynamic at the moment with a new acquisition in Latin America. US-based Athenex has announced the purchase...

Ecuador pharmacies growing

English version The pharmacy retail sector in Ecuador saw a pivot after the earthquake of 2016. Many sales points have since opened up outside of traditional downtown city centre areas. The retail pharmacy sector in Ecuador is not only the preserve of Mexico's FEMSA. According to El Diario de Ecuador, pharmacies in the country are expanding operations beyond...

IQVIA in Buenos Aires

English version The 2019 edition of the IQVIA World Review took place today at  a hotel outisde of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Topics included the strengths and weaknesses of social security systems in the region. Former head of health services in Argentina Luis Scervino put the focus on the intangibility of resources belonging to the country's fund...

Sanofi sells Irix and other OTC drugs

English version La francesa Sanofi has begun to strip itself of products that don't form part of its core earners after having taken a packet of OTC brands from Germany's Boehringer Ingelheim. France's Sanofi continues to prune its portfolio. Having broadened its OTC portfolio through a swap with Germany's Boehringer Ingelheim back in 2016, it's peeling off products that...

Schott invests US $13m

English version Germany's Schott, a specialist glass maker that produces glass for the pharmaceutical industry Pharmabiz to tour its manufacturing plant in Rio de Janeiro. The company told Pharmabiz that it would maintain its investments in the region where it operates three production sites, one in Rio where it makes raw materials; one that makes finished products in Sao...

Podcast: the week in English

English Version. The news from the pharma and cosmetic industry from the second week of March. A one-minute overview of the news from the pharmaceutical and cosmetic industry by Joseph Foley. In the podcast this week, the goverment continues its strategy for insulin provision, drugmaker Sanofi lays off five employees and Biogen focuses on the final price...

Novartis: end of cardio in Argentina

English version Swiss drugmaker Novartis is closing the shutters on its cardiometabolic unit in Argentina. As far as Pharmabiz could learn, the mature products Diovan, Galvus and Exforge are being moved off-stage resulting in 35 layoffs. Swiss drugmaker Novartis is closing the shutters on its cardiometabolic unit in Argentina The triad of products in the unit - the valsartan...

Cuts at TRB Pharma

English version Argentina's drugmakers cannot escape the country's recession. Pharmabiz has learned that TRB Pharma has begun crisis prevention measures cutting 10% of its workforce. Argentina's pharma sector is feeling the heat of the country's prolonged recession and economic crisis as local drugmaker TRB Pharma announces a 10% cut to its workforce. The cuts are being made under Argentina's so-called Procedimientos...

Novartis CEO in Argentina

English version The CEO of Novartis is currently in Argentina as part of a Latin American tours that started in Mexico and will wrap up in Sao Paulo, Brazil. There's a star visitor in Argentina this week - the CEO is Swiss drugmaker Novartis, Vasant Narasimhan, who is in the country as part of a...

Podcast: the week in English

English Version. The news from the pharma and cosmetic industry from the second week of February. A one-minute overview of the news from the pharmaceutical and cosmetic industry by Joseph Foley. In the podcast this week, an Argentine group expands its portfolio in Latin America, Swiss drugmaker Novartis announces a new country head, and a local drug...

Roemmers buys Bactrim Latam

English version The Roemmers group has sealed another deal with Swiss drugmaker Roche. It had already bought the company's primary care package in Argentina and now takes on Bactrim and Dormicum for the wider Latam region. Pharmabiz has been told the deal totalled around US$ 75 million. Argentine group Roemmers, which bought out Swiss drugmaker Roche's package of primary care products on the local...

Podcast: the week in English

English Version. The news from the pharmaceutical and cosmetic industry from the first week of February. A one-minute overview of the news from the pharmaceutical and cosmetic industry by Joseph Foley. In the podcast this week, bids on goverment purchases in Argentina while L'Oréal blames its regional downturn in inflation in the country, and Kimberly Clark is to close...

Unilever launches Nexxus in Argentina

English version Unilever continues to bring more personal care brands to the Argentine market, now launching Nexxus, a brand that, although in different channels, will compete with L'oréal's Kérastase. It has eight presentations retailing for an average of AR$500 (US$13) putting it at opposite ends of the market from Unilever's own Sedal, which retails at AR$75. Despite the recession and drop in...

Podcast: the week in English

English Version. The news from the pharmaceutical industry from the last week of January. A one-minute overview of the news from the pharmaceutical industry by Joseph Foley. In the podcast this week, public tenders in Buenos Aires Province, regional restructuring at Roemmers and a new face at Novartis in Argentina. See article in Spanish Ir a descargar

Roemmers group: changes in the region

English version Argentine pharma group Roemmers is making changes and updating its structure throughout the Latin America region. Argentine pharma group Roemmers is updating its structure throughout the Latin America region, the local heavyweight making changes at various units across the continent. Santiago Llavallol has arrived in Peru to replace Pedro Alonso Hidalgo, who crosses to...

Podcast: the week in English

English Version. The news from the pharmaceutical industry from the fourth week of January. A one-minute overview of the news from the pharmaceutical industry by Joseph Foley. In the podcast this week, Venezuelan pharmacy chain Farmatodo touches down in Argentina, fraud at Pierre Fabre, and a send off for a local veteran. See article in Spanish. Ir a descargar

Fraud at Pierre Fabre

English version French drugmaker Pierre Fabre fired its trade marketing manager in Argentina in December and filed a criminal case in Buenos Aires City. A large quantity of missing retail products has been identified and were bought illegally. French drugmaker Pierre Fabre has begun an internal investigation in Argentina to detect the final destination of a substantial quantity...

Podcast: the week in English

The news from the pharmaceutical industry from the third week of January. English Version. A one-minute overview of the news from the pharmaceutical industry by Joseph Foley. This week, businesses and trade unions take stock of the annual inflation figures released by statistics bureau INDEC and drugmakers programme manufacturing cuts over the summer. See article in Spanish Ir a descargar

Inflation in Argentine hygiene, report

English version Prices across all sectors were continually adjusted throughout 2018. Pharmabiz analyzed the movement of the hygiene and personal care basket monitored by Argentina's national statistics institute INDEC. It increased by 65.6% while the general basket of goods measured by the body increased by 47.6%. Argentina's annual inflation for 2018 was the...

Podcast: the week in English

English version. The news from the pharmaceutical industry from the second week of January. A one-minute overview of the news from the pharmaceutical industry by Joseph Foley. This week Takeda's acquisition of Shire, payments from Argentina's pensioners' medical care provider PAMI and price controls on the local market. See article in Spanish Go to download

Podcast: the week in English

English Version. The news from the pharmaceutical industry in the second week of January. A one-minute overview of pharmaceutical news from the first week of 2019 by Joseph Foley. This week, a record-breaking acquisition and inflation in Argentina. See article in Spanish   Ir a descargar

Podcast: the week in English

A one-minute overview of the news from the pharmaceutical industry in Argentina this Christmas week. This week, the end of the year for local drugmakers plus changes at the former IMS Health and Novartis. Ir a descargar

Simple launched in Argentina

English version Unilever launches the brand Simple in Argentina aiming at consumers with sensitive skin with a price point  50% above that of Dove. Anglo-Dutch giant Unilever continues to launch brands on the Argentine market despite the challenging economic context. Following the launch of the LivOpen repellants last summer, the group has launched its Simple line of products. The skincare...

Podcast: the week in English

English version Our one-minute overview of pharma news in Argentina for the fourth week of November. This week, Roche leaking execs in the country, while Novartis bids farewell to its country manager José Marcilla as well as American CEO for oncology Aliya Omer. Ir a descargar

Roche Argentina leaking managers

English version The gradual loss of staff at the Argentina subsidiary of Switzerland's Roche has become impossible to hide. Although its communication department continues to try to show the company as a multinational with excellent benefits, the perks are clearly not proving to be enough to retain mid-level executives. Swiss drugmaker Roche is one of the many multinationals that cannot...

Podcast: the week in English

English version Our one-minute audio overview of pharma news in Argentina for the third week of November 2018. This week: Pfizer closes its consumer healthcare business in the Southern Cone.   Ir a descargar

Podcast: the week in English

English version A one-minute audio summary of pharma news in Argentina for the second week of November 2018. The new agreement with the public medical provider PAMI has been made official in an announcement from the Argentine president Mauricio Macri.   Ir a descargar

Novartis oncology, over and out

English version The team at Novartis Oncology in Argentina is waiting expectantly after learning that CEO Aliya Omer is moving on after barely a year in the country. Most of the team is said to have welcomed the news since Omer's particular management meant several had to move departments of even leave the company. We know the multinationals rotate...

Podcast: the week in English

English version A one-minute audio summary of pharma news in Argentina for the first week of November 2018. The public medical provider PAMI and its agreement with drugmakers remains the main story in pharma news. Ir a descargar

Podcast: the week in English

English version A one-minute audio summary of pharma news in Argentina for the last week of October 2018. The main story in this edition: drugmakers' agreements with public medical provider PAMI on a new one-by-one basis.  

L’oréal: Favre to Argentina

English version. Frenchman Damien Favre had to abandon the glamorous Italian market to take on the devalued mass consumption market in Argentina. Favre is starting his tenure with price increases across the division of 14.5%. French giant L'Oréal is bringing in a replacement to head its mass consumption business in Argentina to oversee the firm's strategy in dealing with...

End of an era at Glaxo

English version The tenure of the Argentine Rodolfo Civale at the helm of the UK’s GSK for the Southern Cone has come to an end. His exit will also mean a change at the CAEMe, the association for international drugmakers. It seemed like it would last ever, but the decade-long tenure...
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