News About: Distribution
Drug wholesalers to be transformed by the government?
A movement of drug wholesalers transformation is getting visualized, which may not come out by the wholesaler's self governance but by the government initiatives.
The wholesalers group said that they failed to tra...
Press article "wholesaler supplied expired drugs" found rootless.
A press article reported earlier that a drug wholesaler supplied expired drugs to "S" hospital, but the KPWA journal reported on July 8 that the said wholesaler had nothing to do with this article, covering in details...
Drug prices to hospitals higher than wholesalers.
A direct dealing price of drugs to hospitals by the drug maker showed far higher than the dealing price to hospitals by wholesalers.
According to "Average Drug Purchasing Prices by Medical Institutions" compiled by...
KPWA backlash to KPMA's plan on unified distribution system.The top executive team of the Korea Pharmaceutical Wholesaler Association (KPWA) urged to the Korea Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association (KPMA) that the KPMA's recommendatio...
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Drug industry seeking OTC drug price stability by discriminating wholesalers.
Most of local drug companies are trying to stabilize their OTC drug prices in the markets by discriminating the wholesalers who were interrupting market prices through so called "Denbai" a sort of broker, while giving...
Foundation of Drug Logistic Association to legislate.
Rep. Moon Byeong-ho of the National Assembly announced that the pharmaceutical affairs act should be amended to include a provisional clause for the establishment of the drug logistic association and the drug integrat...
Drug wholesalers to raise credibility of IMS data.
The Korea Pharmaceutical Wholesaler Association (KPWA) pointed our quite remarkable statistic errors of the IMS data on the weight of drug distribution in Korea, which was probably attributed to the extrapolate interp...
Drug makers and wholesalers in conflict on unified distribution system.
The pharmaceutical manufacturers and wholesalers have confronted each other over the issue on the unified drug distribution system, for which the manufacturers claimed to scrap while the wholesalers resisted.
The d...
Drug wholesalers in backlash to Green Cross's margin policy.
On May 27 Green Cross responded to the official letter earlier questioned by The Korea Pharmaceutical Wholesaler Association (KPWA) over the issue of distribution margins, covering the terms and conditions the KPWA h...
First court's citation on famciclovir patent disputes.
Suwon district court ordered a first citation on the date of May 24 to Novartis and Kyungdong over the patent dispute on famiciclovir, an anti-viral drug.
Novartis claimed that Famclover (generic name: famciclovir)...
