Algeria / Pharma & Healthcare: 5 Things to Know
With a healthcare system marked by both progress and difficulties due to the country’s economic overreliance on the oil and gas sector and its recent political instability, Algeria, is the…
Biopharm is an industrial and commercial group that invested in the pharmaceutical sector in the early 1990s and now has a production unit that meets international standards and a distribution network for wholesalers, processors and pharmacies.
Biopharm began by gradually adapting its organisational structure as a Group around its various businesses:
– Drug production through Biopharm, which remains the core of the Group
– Wholesale distribution of pharmaceutical products through Biopharm Distribution
– Distribution to pharmacies through Biopure
– Medical promotion and information, through HHI (Human Health Information)
– Logistics for the pharmaceutical industry through Biopharm Logistic
In 2015, Biopharm finalized the creation of a joint venture with the Indian generic company Cipla to build a respiratory medicine factory. In 2012, they signed an industrial partnership with the British company AstraZeneca to establish a new production unit doubled by a distribution centre in the Algiers region.
Since 2013, Biopharm has been 49% owned by a consortium made up of the Financial Development Partners International (DPI) and Mediterrània Capital as well as the German development agency DEG.
In September 2016, with a market cap of DZD 31.5 billion (c. USD 290 million), Biopharm became the fifth company to enter Algeria’s stock market and accounts for 70% of the total Algiers stock exchange market cap.
With a healthcare system marked by both progress and difficulties due to the country’s economic overreliance on the oil and gas sector and its recent political instability, Algeria, is the…
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