The Global Pharmaceutical Industry In the pharmaceutical industry market segments can be found depending on the criteria used. For example‚ geographically there are three main market segments (the Triad accounting for 80% and with the strongest growth): The United States of America‚ Europe and Japan with the main future segment being the least developed countries. Another way of classifying the market segments that the pharmaceutical industries face is by those products directed to primary care
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Stringent government regulation and powerful purchaser pressures. • Governments focused on pharmaceuticals in efforts to control rising healthcare expenditure. • Inter-country pricing disparities. Economic • European free trade agreements. Social • Ageing populations create pressure on healthcare systems. • Epidemic or chronic diseases (e.g. obesity). Technological • Impact of genetic research on industry. • Utilizing a web of alliances to address multiple customer needs Environmental
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The Global Pharmaceutical Industry Date: 2011 August 20 Table of content Contents Page 1. Introduction 4 2. Pestel analysis of the global pharmaceutical industries 5-6 3. Drivers for change in the future of pharmaceutical 7 4. Five forces analysis on the global pharmaceutical industry 8-10 5. Threats to a big pharmaceutical company 11 6. Conclusion 12 7. Bibliography 13 Introduction The pharmaceutical industry According
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Today the pharmaceutical industry is one of the biggest industries in the United States. The industry experienced a rapid growth rate (in the double digits) in the late 20th century which has now dropped into the single digits (Mullins‚ 2007). The global demand is driven by factors such as a worldwide increase in elderly population and a rising quality of life in developing nations. Time Magazine listed Generic Pharmaceutical Manufacturing as one of the top ten fastest growing industries in the United
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Industry overview Pharmaceutical sector is an important industry of any modern day economic power. Pharmaceutical industry in India has a very humble past. After independence‚ development of pharmaceutical industry was one of the top agenda of government along with steel and manufacturing industry. The market was protected against competition for a long period of time by giving incentives to small firms‚ license-raj etc. Today the Indian pharmaceutical industry is the front-runner science-based
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The Greatest Aid of Corruption: Foreign Aid Outside forces continue to persist in exerting their unwarranted and unnecessary influence on African countries. Many powerful countries like Great Britain‚ France‚ and Germany intentionally impede in the development of Africa. They justify their involvement by claiming to have humanitarian motives‚ but in reality‚ they have a hidden agenda to satiate their power-hungry and selfish desires like during colonialism. Evidently‚ there are many harmful consequences
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Objective of the report: The Bangladesh paradox has been one of surprising economic resilience in the face of natural disasters‚ poor governance and political volatility. However‚ a key challenge is whether Bangladesh can move away from an economy that is an impressive underdog‚ to one that can truly join the ranks of the fastest growing economies in the region. Bangladesh has three key attractions for global investors and multinationals: a large base of low-cost labour‚ a large domestic
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of New Varieties (UPOV) Convention. The UPOV Convention‚ formed in 1961‚ acknowledges breeders of new plant varieties through uniform and clearly defined principles for exclusive property rights‚ based on criteria that the variety is distinctive‚ uniform‚ stable and novel.33 33 Commission on Intellectual Property Rights‚ 2002. 34 The Light Years project and in a recent World Bank report (Barconcelli et al.‚ 2004). Geographical Indications are a second measure used to protect diversity in access
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their long-term survival in the intensively competitive and high-stakes drug industry. Industry Analysis -Porter’s Five Forces The Pharmaceutical industry has several high entry barriers as shown in figure 1. Economies of scale‚ product differentiation‚ government policy and capital requirements and financial services are few barriers for new entrant. Level of threat from rivalry is also high in this industry. Industry has presence of large number of small firms of a similar size. They are in direct
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Merck‚ being on one of the biggest pharmaceutical companies in the world today‚ came from a meek beginning and still encounters many problems today while trying to maintain a lead amongst its competition. While being looked at as a research and development driven company‚ Merck now has to go beyond R&D to stay competitive in the pharmaceutical industry. Attracting talent to work for the company has never been a problem for Merck‚ but the bigger question was whether or not this talent would be able
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