The Mexican pharmaceutical market is one of
the most important in the world, ranked among the first 15 markets in the
world.
The pharmaceutical companies are improving
their quality and productivity to launch new products in the international
market.
According to the KPMG study, Mexico exports
26% of the national production and imports 20% of the pharmaceutical products.
The Mexican pharmaceutical market is
developing rapidly. It is one of the leading markets in Latin America and one
of the largest markets in the world.
In recent years, the Mexican market has been
more strictly regulated. In particular, the Mexican Federal Commission for
Protection against Health Risks has recently suspended the registration of more
than six thousand medicines.
As a result, the interests of companies that
produce innovative products have been seriously affected.
The most important pharmaceutical companies
in Mexico are: -
1. Pfizer
2. Sanofi
3. Bayer
4. Novartis
5. Schering Plow
6. Boehringer Ingelheim
7. Johnson & Johnson
8. Merck-Serono
9. Pisa Pharmaceutical
10. Sanfer
1. Pfizer:
Pfizer Inc. (Pfizer), incorporated on June 2,
1942, is a global biopharmaceutical company based on research. The company is
dedicated to the discovery, development and manufacture of medical devices. Its
global portfolio includes medicines and vaccines, as well as health products
for the consumer. The Company manages its commercial operations through two
business segments:
Pfizer Innovative Health (IH) and Pfizer
Essential Health (EH). IH : They on developing and commercializing medications
and vaccines that improve the lives of patients, as well as products for
consumer health. The therapeutic areas of HI include internal medicine,
vaccines, oncology, inflammation and immunology, rare diseases and consumer
health care.
EH includes inherited brands, branded
generics, generic sterile injectable products, biosimilars and infusion
systems.
EH also includes a research and development
(R & D) organization, as well as its contract manufacturing business. As of
December 31, 2016, the Company sold its products in more than 125 countries.
Features:
Sales Mexico: 590 million dollars
Market share: 6.4%
Main drugs: Lyrica, Celebrex, Tafil,
Terramycin, Lipitor, Viagra
Employees: 1,500
Plants: 1
2. Sanofi:
Sanofi is another of the three largest
pharmaceutical companies on the planet that has a presence in Mexico.
In the particular case of this French
company, its presence is older than that of Pfizer.
Sanofi has been in Mexico for 85 years. Today
Sanofi Mexico with 2,000 employees in the country, or 1.8% of its global
workforce of 110,000 people.
Many of these workers work in the two
production plants that the company has in Mexico and are located in the town of
Ocoyoacac, State of Mexico.
Sanofi has a market share in the country of
about 5.9% and has five of the 100 most sold drugs in the country.
Features:
Sales Mexico: 547 million dollars
Market share: 5.9%
Main drugs: Neo-Melubrine, Lantus, Aderogyl,
Histiacil
Installed production: 162 m. of units, 30 m.
of seasonal influenza dose, 90 m. in case of pandemic.
Employees: 2,000
Plants: 2
3. Bayer:
The German company, recognized in Mexico for
its analgesics Aspirin and Cafeaspirin, is the third largest pharmaceutical
company in the country with two production plants.
Although the company has been present for
more than 100 years by exporting its medicines from Germany, it was not until
1921, 93 years ago, when I created its current subsidiary.
This subsidiary makes it the oldest
international pharmaceutical company in the country.
The division of medicines and personal care
products has a global level with 55,300 workers and sales of close to 18,000
million euros (24,300 million dollars).
The company employs about 3,150 employees in
Mexico but did not disclose how many of these workers are from its
pharmaceutical subsidiary or its other operations in the country.
The Bayer Crop-Science is dedicated to the
development of high-value seeds and innovative solutions for crop protection.
Its subsidiary Bayer MaterialScience: This company
dedicated to the development of high-performance materials.
In total, Bayer has 55,300 employees
worldwide. In Mexico, Bayer has a market share of 5.5%.
Features:
Sales Mexico: 507 million dollars
Market share: 5.5%
Main drugs: Aspirin Protect, Flanax, Yasmin,
Levitra, Avelox, Actron
Plants:
2
4. Novartis:
In Mexico, the subsidiary of the Swiss
company is known as Novartis Mexico and has a history of more than 80 years in
the country.
The company had a production plant in the
country in Tlalpan south of the capital, which closed in 2010 to import the
drugs it markets under the Novartis brand in the country.
Currently their corporate offices are located
in that colony of Mexico City. The company has a generic production plant that
is sold in the country under the Sandoz brand.
The number of workers in the Novartis
pharmaceutical division is 708 workers. The company has a 4.6% market share, in
addition to manufacturing three of the 100 most sold drugs in the country.
Features:
Sales Mexico: 425 million dollars
Market share: 4.6%
Main drugs: Trileptal, Senokot, Co-Diovan,
Exforge, Galvusmet
Employees: 708
5. Schering Plow:
The American company
arrived in Mexico 64 years ago and was established under the name Scheramex.
The name of the company changed Schering Plow S.A. almost 40 years later. of
C.V.
Today the company is the fifth largest in the
Mexico country. The company has manufacturing plant located in Xochimilco,
south of Mexico City.
The plant has capacity to produce more than
120 million units a year. The plant produces not only medicines under
the Schering Plow brand but also various veterinary products.
In total, the plant produces more than 200
different products representing about 700 different dosage forms.
The company employs a total of more than
1,500 people in the country and has a market share of about 4.4%.
Features:
Sales Mexico: 404 million dollars
Market share: 4.4%
Installed production: 200 different formulas,
with 700 representations
Main drugs: Celestamine, Biometrix,
Diprospan, Quadriderm, Cedax
Employees: 1,500
Plants: 1
6. Boehringer Ingelheim:
The German company arrived in Mexico in 1954
to carry out activities of importation and distribution of its medicines.
In 1971, it acquired Laboratorios Prometo,
which started the construction of a factory in Xochimilco south of the
country's capital.
This plant today allows the sixth largest
pharmaceutical company in Mexico, to supply not only the national market, but
also to various markets in Central and South America, as well as the Canadian
and US markets.
In Mexico, Boehringer Ingelheim has 1,831
employees, while it has sales of close to 343 million dollars, which gives it a
market share close to 3.7%.
Features:
Sales Mexico: 343 million dollars
Market share: 3.7%
Main medicine: Micardis, Combivent, Buscopan,
Macrodantin, Pharmaton
Employees: 1,800
7. Johnson & Johnson:
The American company also came to Mexico in
the fifties and like many other pharmaceutical companies built a plant in the
country a few years later.
In the case of this company, which in
addition to medicines also produces multiple products for the home, chose the
city of Toluca, capital of the State of Mexico, to be the headquarters of its
factory. Johnson & Johnson has a 3.1% market share.
Features:
Sales Mexico: 284 million dollars
Market share: 3.1%
Plant: 1
Main drugs: Evra, Vermox, Motric, Sufrexal
The
German company has been operating in Mexico for 84 years, It is the third oldest and 10th largest sales in the country. The German
company Bayer and the French company Sanofi have a longer presence in the
country.
Merck's operations in Mexico have three
divisions: Merck-Serono, which manufactures and markets pharmaceutical
products; Consumer Health, which sells non-prescription products and a chemical
division comprising Performance Materials and Merck Millipore, which sells
various chemical products, such as pigments, cosmetics and food for various
industries.
In Mexico, Merck has 1,217 employees (1.9% of
the world's 66,000 workers), has a plant in the capital of the country and has
a market share of 3.1%.
Features:
Sales Mexico: 282 million dollars
Market share: 3.1%
Production capacity: 2,360 m. of pieces in
bulk, 73 m. of packaged products
Main drugs: Dolo-Neurobion, Eutirox, Denvar
Plants: 1
Employees: 1,217
9. Pisa Pharmaceutical:
It is a Mexican company and the largest in
the country in the ranking of the 10 largest in the national industry.
Even the company is the company that has more
employees than the 10 largest in the country with 14,000 professionals.
The company was founded in 1945, which later
became Pisa Laboratories and today known as Pisa Pharmaceutical.
This company has seven manufacturing plants,
which allow it to produce 1,000 pharmaceutical products.
It also has three affiliated plants that
produce medical devices. Pisa even produces medicines for different competing
companies in Mexico, among which Pfizer, Bayer, Sandoz and Astra Zeneca stand
out, among others.
Features:
Sales Mexico: 280 million dollars
Market share: 3.0%
Main medicine: Electrolit, Sertraline,
Amoxiclav
Plants: 7
Employees: 14,000
Plants: 3
10. Sanfer:
This Mexican company, also known as Sanfer
Laboratories,. The company was founded in the 1940s.
Today the company is owned by the Invekra
Group, which, in addition to Sanfer's operations, owns Hormones Laboratories, a
Mexican company founded by researchers Hungarian origin Emeric Somlo and
Federico Lehnman in the thirties, and Laboratorios Bussie, a Colombian
pharmaceutical company.
Sanfer has three plants, two in Mexico
(Lerma, State of Mexico) and one in Bogotá, Colombia.
The company, like Pisa Pharmaceutical, also
makes medicines for other international laboratories. Sanfer also exports its
medicines to 10 countries in Latin America, including Guatemala, El Salvador,
Honduras, Ecuador and Peru, among others.
Features:
Sales Mexico: 277 million dollars
Market share: 3%
Main medicine: Asenlix, Daflon, Treda,
Clavulin
Plants: 3
Installed production: 12 m. of capsules, 350
m. tablets, 200 m coated tablets
Employees: 2,600 (includes workers from the
other two associated laboratories)
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