News About: Pharm. Industry
Concentrated marketing for each therapeutic class eyed
Domestic leading pharmaceutical firms, including Chong Kun Dang Corporation, CJ, Samyang Corporation and Bukwang Pharm, have pushed up with a plan designed to set up their marketing team consisting of product managers...
KOSDAQ-listed pharmaceutical firms' profits dipped
According to statistics compiled by Yakup Shinmoon, 13 KOSDAQ-listed pharmaceutical firms including Kyungdong Pharm posted a combined turnover of 387.4 billion won in 2002, or an increase of 14.5 percent over the prev...
Industry to call for government's careful drug policy
Pharmaceutical business sources that a string of government's incessant cuts of insurance price may hit the hardest blow to the sound development of domestic pharmaceutical industry as one of the national core industr...
Listed firms' sales up 12 percent in 2002
The 22 pharmaceutical listed firms Green Cross, Chong Kun Dang, Chong Kun Dang Bio, LG Lifescience are excluded whose fiscal year corresponds with the calendar year showed that their sales and operating profits in 200...
BMS Korea agreed with Zuellig for wholesale distribution.
BMS Korea agreed with Zuellig on Mar. 26 to transfer their products supplied to hospitals by Zuellig's associated wholesalers. However, BMS Korea will keep selling the products supplied to hospitals by other wholesale...
Awareness of drug brands increasing
With the increasing awareness of customers over drug brands, many pharmaceutical firms are expressing their keen interest in enhancing their brands as drug brands with better customers' awareness may contribute to sig...
20 new drugs to be commercialized soon
The Korea Drug Research Association said that clinical trials are under way for 20 news drugs being developed by domestic pharmaceutical firm, except for SK Chemical's Sunpla inj. (antineoplastic), Daewoong's ...
Drug industry to reactivate OTC drug business.
The KPMA decided to promote the OTC drug business in view of reducing people's medical costs and stabilizing the NHI finance by establishing a research council for OTC drugs, improving the OTC drug registration proces...
Bayer's Levitra approved from EC
Bayer and GlaxoSmithKline announced on March 7 that they have received marketing authorization from the European Commission for Levitra (vardenafil HCl) for the treatment of male erectile dysfunction. The decision fol...
GSK Korea sponsored symposia for Avandamet
GSK Korea said it has sponsored symposia in commemoration of launching in Korea of Avandamet tablet (rosiglitazone maleate + metformin), type 2 diabetes medication, from next month.
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