Pascal Brière – President, Biogaran, France
Pascal Brière, president of Biogaran, the leading French domestic player in generics, reflects on the development of the generic market since the 1999 Generic Substitution Act. Brière goes on to…
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Biogaran, is an independent French laboratory focused on generic drugs and was born in 1996 at the initiative of the first independent French pharmaceutical group: Servier.
Today the group is second on the French market and produces 55% of its products within the country. The laboratory Biogaran has commissioned the Social Security savings of around € 1 billion since its inception in 1996.
The group distributes a wide variety of pharmaceutical medications through French pharmacies
Pascal Brière, president of Biogaran, the leading French domestic player in generics, reflects on the development of the generic market since the 1999 Generic Substitution Act. Brière goes on to…
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