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London, United Kingdom, 07/20/2010 - Piribo, the online destination for Pharma intelligence, has added a new report.
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According to the report “The Indian Pharmaceutical Industry: New strategies in a changing world” India’s reputation as a cheap generic drug producer is passing. While generics continue to play a major part in the industry’s success, many companies have started down the long road of drug discovery, novel product development and pharma services.
India is the world’s fourth largest producer of pharmaceuticals by volume, accounting for around 8% of global production. In value terms, production accounts for around 1.5% of the world total. The Indian pharmaceutical industry directly employs around 500,000 people and is highly fragmented. While there are around 270 large R&D based pharmaceutical companies in India, including multinationals, government-owned and private companies, there are also around 5,600 smaller licensed generics manufacturers, although in reality only around 3,000 companies are involved in pharmaceutical production. Most small firms do not have their own production facilities, but operate using the spare capacity of other drug manufacturers.
The dynamics of the domestic Indian market have always encouraged Indian industry to pursue overseas lines of business. Expansion comes at a cost and some companies have had to restructure. In June 2009, Wockhardt divested its German business, esparma and more recently, in March 2010, Orchid sold its generic injectable formulations business to Hospira but came out of the deal with a long term supply agreement for its APIs.
India remains an important market for the vast majority of pharma companies. The indigenous industry supplies around 70% of the country’s pharmaceuticals. The proportion of revenue derived from India depends largely on the strategy of the individual company and its penetration into overseas markets. For example, while Zydus Cadila aims to grow rapidly overseas, India remains its most important market, accounting for 55.8% of revenue in fiscal 2008/09. India is also Cipla’s key market, generating almost half of the company’s revenue in 2008/09, although this percentage has been declining in recent years as the company has increasingly targeted overseas markets. Other companies, such as Dr. Reddy’s, are less reliant on the Indian market; in 2008/09, India contributed just 17% of the company’s global revenue.
The report “The Indian Pharmaceutical Industry: New strategies in a changing world” is available from Piribo.
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