Management profile of pharmaceutical firms:financial structures

Ever growing trend of pharmaceutical business has turned down into anera of low growth since the 2nd half of 1997 despite a temporary falsegrowth of 8.5% at the year end when the IMF crisis bursted out.

According to the financial statement reported by the 20 pharmaceuticalcompanies having a fiscal year ended at Dec. 31, the total sales in 1997showed 1,992,656 million Won, 8.3% increase ...