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 Indoco Remedies Ltd. - Company Overview Twitter Handle: @shuchi_nahar 1. Company Profile The company was established in 1947. Indoco is a small-sized pharma company engaged in manufacture, marketing and distribution of pharmaceutical products and services in the domestic & international markets. Through its nine marketing divisions viz. Indoco, Spade, Warren NexGen, Warren ACE, Warren Excel and Vision, Indoco Focus, Indoco CND, Spera and Institution the company serves a range of doctor specialties. Indoco has signed supply agreements with companies like Watson, Aspen and DSM to supply formulations to advanced and emerging markets. Figure:1 Graph Showing Revenue Trend & Revenue Breakup 2. India formulations growth core to overall growth Domestic formulations (~63% of FY20 revenues) grew at 6.5% CAGR in FY16-20. The subdued growth can be attributed to high concentration of acute therapies and one of the lowest MR productivities. With a market share of ~0.7% and overall rank o

Neuland Laboratories Limited -  Company Overview  Shuchi.P.Nahar -  @shuchi_nahar Neuland is a leading manufacturer of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) and an end-to-end solution provider for the pharmaceutical industry’s chemistry needs. The Company operates in the market using two main business models - Generic Drug Substances (GDS) where they cater to the needs of the Generic players and Custom Manufacturing Solutions (CMS) where they primarily work with innovators by helping them bring critical products to the market. CDMO is the emerging growth segment of the company with 13 to 17 Molecules in development phase. 1.      Business Performance Neuland lab (NLL) has posted revenue of INR 2,054mn with 13.5% YoY increase, which was 4% below. The revenue growth was mainly driven by the CMS segment, led by 32 molecules (Development + Commercialize) with speciality API segment, which grew by 33.2% in Q1FY21. EBITDA margin expanded by 622bps to 16.5% level, which was 219bps hig

“Practitioners’ Insights: Understanding Pharma” Shuchi.P.Nahar India is the largest provider of generic drugs globally. Indian pharmaceutical sector industry supplies over 50% of global demand for various vaccines,  40% of generic demand in the US and 25 % of all medicine in UK. India enjoys an important position in the global pharmaceuticals sector. The country also has a large pool of scientists and engineers who have the potential to steer the industry ahead to an even higher level. Presently over 80 % of the antiretroviral drugs used globally to combat AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) are by Indian pharmaceutical firms. The global pharmaceutical market is expected to exceed $1.5 trillion by 2023 growing at a 3−6% compound annual growth rate over the next five years. The key drivers of growth will continue to be the United States and emerging markets with 4−7% and 5–8% compound annual growth, respectively. The global outlook for medicine use and spendi

Important Segments to track growth for Pharma Companies Shuchi.P.Nahar Investments in the global pharmaceuticals sector to increase to over $1,400 billion over the next three years, driven by a number of new medicines. With healthy R&D spending going forward, the Contract Research and Manufacturing (CRAMS) segment offers growth opportunities to Indian companies .  Change in regulations around generic approvals will help Indian companies to increase penetration in Chinese markets, which will improve margin expansion.  What are CRAMS ?  CRAMS is defined as the process of outsourcing research services/ product manufacturing activities to organizations which can provide the service at a low cost. CRAMS basically consists of the following two activities: contract research and contract manufacturing. CRAMS is mainly used in the Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology sectors that require extensive R&D and large-scale manufacturing facilities. It is expected that the demand for c