Interview with Jacques Servier, Founder, Servier France
Do you feel the industry has changed more over the past ten years than over the entire 40 years before? It’s an optical illusion. People always have had the feelings…
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Our entire activity is based on three key principles:
• Our chief principle, naturally, is to satisfy the needs of the physicians who prescribe our products and of the patients who benefit from them.
• Just as importantly, we want our research to contribute to the progress of medicine. Research to us is at least as vital as being an industry.
• Our third principle is all the more crucial as it is too often overlooked: it is that every person working for us should find fulfillment through and in what they do.
Figures
• Leading French independent pharmaceutical company
• Second French pharmaceutical company worldwide
• SERVIER is established in 140 countries
• 85% of SERVIER’s sales are achieved internationally
• Consolidated turnover for the 2007/2008 financial year: €3.7 billion
• More than 25% of SERVIER’s turnover is invested in Research and Development
• Worldwide workforce of over 20 000, including nearly 3 000 in Research and Development
• SERVIER contributes 29% of the trade surplus of France’s pharmaceutical industry
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